I’d guess that Briarsmoke came to be when a Varathane Stain Engineer started playing around with Kona and White. The color in the cup looked like a slightly richer and even more “true brown” version of Varathane’s Briarsmoke stain. I then poured an equal amount of white and mixed the two together. I shook the can, opened it, stirred it and then poured a bit into a plastic cup. On its own, it’d be too dark for this project – even with the base coat of white. I cast my eye over to my Wall of Stain and spied a can of Varathane Kona – our favorite dark stain. Okay, I needed to darken this, but Special Walnut wouldn’t cut it right now – the wood was saturated with white. I guess pre-staining with white was a little too much for the Special Walnut to handle.
We loaded up our car with the craft table components mentioned above, plus a few more for some other craft room projects coming up, and headed back to The Navage Patch. LINNMON (remember to shout it in your mind), is a lightweight and very inexpensive composite tabletop – only $23 for 47″ x 24″ piece. On top of the black pipe would sit a tabletop – another inexpensive IKEA purchase called LINNMON. On top of each, she wanted wood, and on the wood, she wanted black pipe.
Handan wanted two HÄLLAN units with casters ( called RILL in IKEA Swedish) added to their bottoms. I suppose these are questions for another time. When he gives a speech, is he shouting and screaming in Swedish to all his minions? Like, should I be shouting when I say the word “ HÄLLAN?” And does it rhyme with “Allen” or “Van Halen?”Īnd what about IKEA internal emails? Do you think the CEO writes in all caps? So, is it mandatory to capitalize everything when writing about IKEA? Do you think that also translates to speech? If you look at it too long, you risk keeling over dead from acute boredom. They are pretty unassuming and pretty cheap at $40 each. For those who love their ridiculous Swedish monikers, the cubes we sought are called HÄLLAN. The next minute, I’m holding Handan’s hand through the halls of IKEA as we sought out the components of a DIY craft table.Īnyway, her plan was to get a couple of cheap metal storage cubes – part of IKEA’s office collection. I’ve a better chance divining the meaning of life than understanding the mind of that woman. Then we thought about designing and building one of wood, but I hemmed and hawed and suggested that there was probably a quicker way than that.Īnd then my babes hit upon the idea.
Remember, just like Barish’s bedroom makeover, the theme of this craft room makeover is Cheap, Easy and Quick. We thought about buying something (briefly), but Handan couldn’t find exactly what she had in mind, and what she did find was way too expensive. We also needed a work surface up top – let’s call it a craft table, because it won’t only be used for Cricut projects – and we needed storage below for the Cricut ecosystem. Jeezum Crow, it’s an ever-evolving and constantly-expanding ecosystem of color and texture, and if you don’t keep it organized, I’m pretty sure the vinyl and transfer papers and mats and stencils and other crap start to interbreed and multiply! The Cricut is one thing – it’s a single machine, so it keeps itself neat. One of our main goals with the new craft room is to have a Cricut station / craft table, where we can keep the Cricut Maker and all its supplies and accessories.