$10 Bar Makeover
This bar was part of our basement makeover. The basement originally was all pine and very dark. We brightened it by painting everything white, but we were unsure of the bar....until now.
It didn't fit-in with the rest of the room, so it got 3 coats of white paint, leftover from painting the room. The footrest was covered with red linoleum, so I removed the metal edge using a screwdriver, taped it off, and spray painted it with hammered gray - also a leftover from a previous project, and reused the same edge. I must confess, though. One of the screws would not come off, so I had to get out my sawsall and cut the screw. Yay, power tools!
Here's the gray paint:
I finally found a use for all of those synthetic corks I had stashed away and created a design on the front of the bar. I used my hot glue gun and a whole bunch of glue sticks:
The entire design took over 180 corks!
Then there was the top of the bar that was covered with the same red linoleum that I mentioned earlier:
My solution? Vinyl Floor tiles! Eight of them at 89 cents each.
A utility knife to cut, peel, and stick!
Some blue tape and caulk to finish the edge:
A complete transformation:
A simple solution and update.
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