Friday, October 19, 2007

how to change the colour of your scale

sarah's new bathroom colours didn't match the ikea scale she had. no worries. 20 minutes later, she had a scale in the blues she wanted.

"i found the pattern for my shower curtain on the bed bath and beyond site and was able to blow it up using a photoshop filter. the ikea kilan scale is approximately 9" x 9" but due to only having letter size paper i split the image in half and printed it out on two sheets.

bathroom scalebefore

bathroom scalematerials

bathroom scaleafter

once printed i cut out the new design and used doublestick tape to secure it on the scale. i then used clear contact paper (which can be purchased for cheap at home depot) to secure the new design in place."

see more of sarah's kilan scale colour change

5 comments:

  1. Wow, what a change! That's so cute.

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  2. www.projectblancoyd.typepad.comOctober 22, 2007 11:51 PM

    very nice :)

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  3. This rocks :-)! Ikea seems to have a real thing about red for some reason while I, sadly, do not. Not to be critical -- or at least not VERY critical -- I just prefer more relaxing colours in my home surroundings, is all).

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  4. for 50 cents a sheet, Joann fabrics has great 12x12 sheets of paper to match any decor

    Love the idea of refacing with paper and contact paper.

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  5. does this scale work accurately?please email me if you cannot answer the yahoo question,thanks much appreciated. :)

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