I put a couple coats of each paint to completely cover up the first coat of red. Questionable decision making by yours truly.Īh whatever. Ya know…it’s sortof a pain trying to cover up red with white. But if any of you know me…I just can’t leave well enough alone. Or onto the stain! AH! We have to start over, Kate! It’s important to be more careful so none of the off-white paint spills into the red. On the front facing edges I’m going to paint an off-white. Now that the outside is stained, I’m going to give my honeycomb shelf a blast of color.Ĭareful to catch any paint that tries to run! Using an old cloth, I wipe the stain on in the direction of the grain. Thumbs up to me grabbing the wrong stain from the shelf. I’m going to shape and sand this corner into what it once was.
I rounded out this corner by mistake….this always happens to me after I brag about something! AGH! Oh, hey perfectionists…eat your hearts out! Let’s sand away these woodly bonds and uncover our true potential. And we’re just happy that wood filler is inexpensive enough for our overly liberal but totally necessary applications. This could have been avoided if the cuts were more accurate! Calibrate all the machines! Measure thrice cut never! LISTEN! Us freeversin’ DIY cats are proud of our mistakes. So which aisle in Ikea? Do I have to assemble it?Īs you can see, I’m being very generous with the application.ĭon’t forget to fill in the nail gun holes! Do the same if you decided to screw your honeycombs… When admirers gaze at your little honeys turned honeycombs, they’ll say, “WOW!” And, “I didn’t know Ikea sold these!” To which you’ll reply, “With my bare hands I crafted these perfect joints with nary a fault or blemishy blemish!” I proceed to fill in all my suck with wood filler. Oh, and did I mention it’s paint and stain-able? That’s the great thing about DIY! Between wood filler and photoshop, everything’s beautiful! OR you should use the DIY’ers suck eraser: Wood filler! It literally fills in the suck with synthetic wood. They’re nails.Īnd if you’re not perfect, like I’m not perfect, some of YOUR joints will totally suck, too. It seems inhumane to hit such a small thing but please realize these nails were never alive to begin with. So I used these fellas to help the nails finish what they started. Some of the nails lacked the intestinal fortitude to go in far enough. Part Two covers the filling, sanding, painting, staining and hanging of the shelf.
If you’re looking for the purchase list, cut list and how to BUILD the shelves…you need to be reading the step by step guide in Part One! This is Part Two of the most popular how to build honeycomb shelves guide in the pacific northwest.