Create designer style with ease and time-saving tricks
TRAVERSE CITY -- Tune in every Wednesday at 6:30 pm for "UpNorthLive ReVibe" on UpNorthLive Tonight on ABC 29&8.
Denine Dingeman, designer at Charitable Resale, teaches you to style with ease to affordably create desirable living spaces using cast-off items. She's teaming up with Dan Brady, "tricks-of-the-trade" painter at Dan Brady Painting and Wood Restoration. He brings you time-saving tricks and products that are easy to find and use.
This week, Dan and Denine are showing you how to ReVibe a cast-off mirror in four easy steps.
First, Denine said to pick your theme.
"Pull a design theme from something that expresses your personality," said Denine. "Consider how dated patterns or colors can ReVibe your mirror in a fresh, trendy way."
Four Steps to paint a designer-inspired mirror:
1. Plan: Gather mirror, sandpaper or deglosser, paintbrush, paint, and Frogtape
"Check for lead paint using a lead paint tester easily found at Northwoods Paint or any home improvement store," said Dan.
Click the video above for Dan's trick to test for lead-based paint.
2. Prep: Sand or Degloss and Prime
"I know prepping isn't the first thing you want to do on your weekend project, but it is important," said Dan. "A really cool product is liquid deglosser... It's like liquid sandpaper."
3. Design direction: Create pattern or color scheme
"I just went around the house and found this old afghan that I got my inspiration from," said Denine. "It's got this chevron design that's really popular right now."
4. Apply: Pattern and paint
"With Frogtape, I masked out the chevron design," said Denine. "I picked a nice beach glass color that I liked... Painted it out, and pulled the tape off. Then, with another afghan that I had laying around, I cut it up and made pillows out of it."
To see the entire process, as well as Dan's trick to test for lead-based paint, click on the video above.
CLICK HERE for more information on Charitable Resale and HERE for more information on Dan Brady Painting and Wood Restoration.
Need some Frogtape? CLICK HERE.
Need some paint? CLICK HERE, call 231-947-8522, or stop by Northwoods Paint & Supply in Traverse City.
