First DIY Trone Decorating

Tags

budget, decorating, DIY, dog art, Ikea hack, Ikea trone, small space, studio apartment

Okay so I live in a small 500 square foot (if that) studio apartment so I bought these Ikea trones meant for shoes but I use them for anything. Just nice to have some extra vertical storage. I want to do a whole wall of them, but that’s not too practical. I wanted to decorate them because black seems so boring.

I thought it would be so simple to buy some paint and go to town… Well as I looked in on it I learned that plastic does not really hold acrylic paint because of the slick surface.

 

1.  I had to rough up the plastic

2. Put some special coating to make it more “sticky” it says sealer but it can be used as a base

3. Add a couple of layers of white so my color would show up

4. add a layer or two of my picked out color

5. Add my design

6. Then finally add a finishing varnish

I had fun doing it and it I spent 30 bucks on the paint so not to bad, I even did one with the dogs 🙂 it got a little messy