Unfortunately, the newer ones are glued, this was nailed on the back, so it could be disassembled and put back together without too much effort.

Required tools and materials

* of course you can use any kind of glue for the purpose, glue spray is recommended in order to glue every inch evenly.

The process

Turn the window around and pull off the positioners. Be careful: the nails are tough, they can easily break out from the plastic. Be patient and watch for a good order in the process.

Get the glass out, and cut a similar size out of two board papers. One – a thinner – is going to be needed to be the bearer of the picture, the other will be the inner frame.

Glue the picture you’d like to add onto the middle of the supporter board.

Cut the size of the picture (or a bit smaller, about 5mm smaller on each side) out of the middle of the other board, which is going to be the inner frame.

When the glue had dried put it all together: glass, inner frame, supporter with the picture, and put the positioners back also. Hammer the nails back carefully.

Reel to picture frame hooks into the original place of the hinges, and you’re done.

The result

Visit the post at Picture frame from IKEA cupboard window

Required tools

* instead of angle grinder, you obviously can use anything to cut metal, but this is the fastest.

Recommended materials

The process

Sign the cotton pad holder where you want to cut it. The best tool for this is an waterproof marker and a paper line with the width of the required bracelet, wrapped around the metal.
After this put on your safety glasses, protective gloves and earmuffs – in order for yourself to get out of the cutting one piece – cut the metal into the required pieces with the angle grinder. Use 1-1.5mm blade and be careful to choose the blade for inox/metal.

The cutted pieces will be full of burr, you really need to rasp these off. For this, I’d recommend angle grinder with flap wheel first, rasp second and abrasive cloth for the third round. Continue until you feel rough edges anywhere, but be careful, the burrs are really nasty.

Once you’ve finished the rasp, you can decide what material will the piece wrapped in. If you done the cutting and rasping nice enough, you can leave it bare, but be careful because it can result metal allergy alone. I decided to use leather for this purpose. The palmatex glue can hold the leather to the metal, but clean the metal first with some alcohol to get rid of the fat and dirt on it. I also added a little varnish to the very ends in order to harden the leather, not to bend so easily.

I’d wanted to cut patterns into the leather, but somewhy it wasn’t as nice as I dreamed so I decided to add the ornaments from mica, slate, wood and crust.

Mica and slate are special rocks: you can make very thin slices out of it and also it is quite easy to form with a metal rasp and with the help of some pliers.
For wood, try to find some pine crusts: if you cautiously carve it by helping the natural pieces to fall apart, you’ll get some purple-brown, beautiful pieces of wood.
For simple crust, but them into water for a few hours. Crust usually becomes flexible by this and you can dry them into the form you desire.

The result

Visit the post at Bracelet from IKEA Lillholmen Cotton pad holder