Liatorp refreshment

Materials: Liatorp Skjenk

Description: We bought a used sideboard online, actually an IKEA furniture called Liatorp Skjenk.

The sideboard was nice, but we needed a sideboard for the bedroom, and the original one wasn't really fitting in. So I decided to do something about it. I had some nice wallpaper lying around from the last dresser i refurbished, and though maybe I could dress the doors with it, the question was how.


You need:

• Liatorp Sideboard
• Oil-based primer
• Small paint roller
• Wall-paper
• Wall-paper glue
• Paint brush
• Wall-paper knife
• Glue (hobby, wood)
• Hammer
• 3 x nice handles (from interior store)
• 2 x Byholma basket white
• 4 x Byholma basket gray

The first challenge was to figure out if it actually was possible to put wall-paper on glass, so while at Bauhaus I asked them. Thy didn't really want to answer me, since they didn't know if it would work, but they finally said that it could work if I primed the glass with an oil-based primer. So that's what I did.

When we picked up the sideboard, one of the doors fell apart, and I thought, great, it will make it much easier to paint and wallpaper the glass without the door-frame. The other door was about as easy to disassemble.

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The first I did was to cut out the wall-paper I wanted to use. I did this by placing the glass on top of the wall-paper and cutting the edges with a wall-paper knife. Its important that the pattern are the same on both doors (that the pattern start and ends the same place).

Place the cut out wall-paper a safe place while you paint

Use the small paint roller and roll primer all over one page of each glass.

When the primer has dried (read on the box), put on wall-paper glue with a paint-brush all over the glass. Put on the wallpaper and squeeze out all the air bubbles. Remove any glue that squeezes out on the sides and let it dry over night.

Disassemble the frame completely and fill the wide part with the hinges with hobby glue, put a little extra where the tree plugs are going in. Assemble one of the short parts, fill it with hobby glue and assemble the glass. The long part can be pretty tight, so be careful that the wall-paper do not curl upward, but slide in the crack with the glass. The short part is more roomy.

Assemble the last short side (filled with glue), and last the last long side (filled with glue). You might need to bang it a little, but be careful that the wall-paper follows into the crack.

When you assemble door number 2, make sure the wall-papers are mirrored. Check this one extra time, it really sucks if you get it wrong ;)

Let the closets dry for a few hours, and mount them on the sideboard. Mount the new handles, and put in the baskets, and tada, a new gorgeous sideboard for the bedroom :)

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After:

See the original post.

~ Ingrid

Coffee Table Train Set

Materials: Liatorp Coffee Table

Description: The hack includes the Liatorp coffee table with glass top and pull out drawer that was modified to include an N scale model train set.

I didn't like the white so I painted about 95% of it black. Four coats of satin black furniture paint to be exact. I left the shelf that the drawer slides on unpainted for two reasons. One, the paint would just rub off as the drawer glides back and forth over the shelf. Two, simply to provide a highlight color to offset all the black. The last thing cosmetically, was I purchased two new pull knobs for the drawer as the stock ones did not match the black.

The drawer from the factory includes a cross in the middle of the drawer making four available compartments, and two particle board pieces that make up the drawer bottom. Now obviously this won't work if you plan to utilize the entire space in the drawer. Leaving out the cross was easy but by doing so, the bottom particle board pieces are rendered useless. So I need a floor for the drawer. I took the necessary measurements and made my way over to TAP plastics, had a custom floor made, and I was good to go.

After assembly, the only thing left to do is design the train layout. I used a program called AnyRail available at anyrail.com. Once the layout is set, it's just a matter of purchasing the engines, cars and scenery that you like to complete the look. Since this was my first attempt, I spent a little more than I probably would have liked but I think it was worth it. It's definitely a conversation piece and fun to look at.

To see a video of the trains in action, check out this youtube video.

~ Jaxan, Sacramento, CA