Bronze age, iron age, DIY age. Never in history has it been so possible to do nearly anything yourself. Everyone from amateur mechanics to broke twenty-somethings are madly googling how-tos on everything from minor household construction and whatever they saw during their latest HGTV binge.
Each generation has it’s decore blind spot: the fabulously popular design trend that has future generations unable to fathom how even one person, let alone just about everyone, had to have it. Wood panelling. Shag carpeting. Floral couches. They didn’t just fail the test of time, they spectacularly crashed and burned.
I won’t bore you with the details of how one can find themselves in strangely specific corners of the internet, but somewhere between pallet hacks and Ikea hacks, are furniture-ruining distressing hacks. It’s the intersection of a Venn diagram between DIY makeovers and regrets-of-the-future decore.
Under employed housewives and mommy bloggers everywhere are taking classic pieces of furniture and erasing their timeless appeal with gobs of pastel paint to create what the future will find as appealing as carpeted bathrooms and fuzzy toilet-seat-covers are now.
Each generation has it’s decore blind spot: the fabulously popular design trend that has future generations unable to fathom how even one person, let alone just about everyone, had to have it. Wood panelling. Shag carpeting. Floral couches. They didn’t just fail the test of time, they spectacularly crashed and burned.
I won’t bore you with the details of how one can find themselves in strangely specific corners of the internet, but somewhere between pallet hacks and Ikea hacks, are furniture-ruining distressing hacks. It’s the intersection of a Venn diagram between DIY makeovers and regrets-of-the-future decore.
Under employed housewives and mommy bloggers everywhere are taking classic pieces of furniture and erasing their timeless appeal with gobs of pastel paint to create what the future will find as appealing as carpeted bathrooms and fuzzy toilet-seat-covers are now.
Step-By-Step Breakdown (oddly, same style chest, different blogger!)
Step 1: Find a classic piece of furniture in need of a little love.
Step 2: Paint it cotton candy blue, chalky seafoam green, or dirty-bath-water white. Optional: Add whimsical embellishments.
Step 3: Take out the work-week rage by distressing with an assortment of household objects. Congratulations, you’ve created the next generation’s weekend furniture restoration project.
It’s a Pinterest epidemic. You heard it here first: buy stocks in paint stripper.