Make your own Ironing Board - Easy DIY

Hi there. It's Karen Brown of Just Get It Done Quilts. So do you need a new ironing board? Or perhaps you need storage space for your sewing room? Well I've got a great solution to combine both of them together. An ironing board with storage. So stick with me and I'll show you how to do. Now I've been in my condo for about two years I built myself a sewing room and on one side of the sewing room I built a murphy bed for my #3 child for when he came home from university. Well after university he came home and stayed. So now all my sewing stuff is in my bedroom. It's a mess and my ironing board is taking up too much space So let me show you my solution. An ironing board with storage. if you google wire shelving you'll be absolutely amazed at how many different versions there are out there Wayfair, Lowe's, Home Depot and Amazon all have a great selection I ended up going with Amazon Prime. So for me, I knew I wanted four shelves I wanted it on casters and I wanted it to be at least 35 inches high and I didn't want it too deep. I'm just going to have it in my room and I have a walk-in closet that I can roll it into when I want But if you're wanting to tuck it away in a cupboard when not in use or move it from room to room get those measurements down now so you can buy the right size So after an exhaustive search I settled on this brand and model mostly because it was available in this dark brown The box arrived pretty quickly There were a lot of little pieces so Iaid them all out on the floor accounting for all of them. The casters came as a separate kit but they were dead easy to put on I'm putting these little collars on the bars which the racks will seat into to stay in place Other than needing space, it's just as easy as it looks and those casters have brakes on them so once you have it upright you can lock it in place so decide where your next shelf is going to go the bars actually have grooves in them so it's easy to put the collars on evenly once I get the third shelf on, then I put the upright bars on I could have done this first but I didn't have a lot of space so it's a little bit easier to do it now I set up my ironing board just to confirm the height that I wanted my fourth shelf to be at and voila the first part is done So the next step is getting wood for your ironing board top. You can use MDF, you can use particle board you can use plywood I'm using plywood because I'm combining it with another project whereI need wood that I can stain. If you know your measurements ahead of time, Home Depot will cut it to your exact size saving you a ton of work My board is a little long because it's an off cut of that other project I'm doing The next step is cutting holes in the wood Where the tubes go through, I simply mark it with a pencil around the outer edge Next you attach a hole-saw bit to your drill. It was pretty easy getting through the first layer on the plywood but the middle area was pretty gummy I had to stop and wipe out the sawdust before I reached the bottom layer. And then you get to do it three more times I trimmed off the ends with this compact circular saw but my husband missed the footage And then we put it through the tubes and sit it on top The next step is we need to trim these top poles so that they're just below the top of the plywood We'll use this pipe & tube cutter First I removed the top rack and the wood platform I thought this step was going to be quite difficult and require some brute strength but I was surprised at how easy it was You rotate the cutter around the bar and when it becomes easy you tighten up the handle just a touch, so that it can still move smoothly and you just keep rotating it and rotating it until the bar comes off What I forgot to photograph was there's these rubber stoppers at the ends of the poles I had to take them off the pieces that I removed and put them on the new ends Put the top rock back on Make sure it's level Add the wood The top edge of the wood should be just above the top of the tube So that big bag of batting that you have stuck in your cupboard Now's the time you get to bring it out You need to find a piece of batting that will cover the whole surface You don't want to piece it here as you want a flat surface for your ironing board So the fabric that we use to cover the ironing board is a specialized fabric You can buy it from Fabric.com, Joann or Fabricland It is a hundred percent cotton with an aluminized coating I found it in the home decor section For the top of the ironing board I'm using a scrap piece of Blue Correspondence by Tim Holtz So I put all three layers together and took it for a test drive with my iron but I found it was just a little bit too hard so I tried it again with two layers of batting and it was just right In December I received these 9" Tailor's shears from LDH scissors This seemed like a perfect time to take them for a test drive So I laid out my batting and then placed the board on top of it I moved it to the side just so that it had enough just to wrap around so I could staplel it down Then I trimmed the other side to match I just love the sound of sharp scissors Then I placed the aluminized cotton down and then placed the batting and the ironing board on top of that I guess I could have done it all at once but I found it was creasing and it was hard to handle so I chose to do them as separate layers Now with the top fabric I wanted to add two strips of velcro to either side of the table So I just needed to find those points on the top I just used a frixion pen making several marks along the top of each edge which I will align the velcro strip to So now I've moved to the workshop I'm spraying my board with some basting spray just to tack down my batting and make sure that there's no wrinkles And then I put another layer of basting spray down as I put down the next layer batting I had a little difficulty making this far side flat where the fold was so I just got out my new shears and I trimmed it And it worked fine Another layer spray and the aluminized cotton goes on Now we flip it all over and get out our pneumatic stapler So we put one staple in the middle of both of the long sides and then we put one staple in the middle of the two short sides Then making sure the fabric is nice and tight you stapled down all of one side Then you flip it around and staple all downthe other side We're not doing the corners right at the moment We're going to leave them until the end and then do the two short sides To do the corners we want that fabric standing up tight and crisp And first we need to cut out all that excess batting from the corner Another great test for those new shears as we need to have sharpness right down to their points to get at these corners I tried to make a nice elegant upholstery corner here but because of the holes that we had to take leave open it became quite fiddly There was a combination of trimming and folding and stapling. The result is something less than elegant but it works. I attached the top fabric as a totally separate piece I figured at some point in the future that the top might be stained and I might want to replace it So as its own piece I can just rip it off on its own and install a new one I'm stapling the two endsides first because I have strips of velcro on the fabric that I want to have lined up with the board And as I'm stapling it I'm turning the raw edge under So I don't have to deal with any threads And then I go down the other two sides We're in the homestretch now here And then we just have to fuss with these corners once more It's a little bit easier with this because the fabric is much lighter and thinner but it's still fussy but it's over in a minute. Not too shabby I'm pretty chuffed I'm pretty darn proud. I love how it helps tidy my space up And having it on wheels makes it so convenient to move it around into the light or near my sewing area so I mentioned a couple of times that I was putting velcro on the side of the cotton covering Let me show you what I've attached to the velcro This pincushion was a gift and I thought it would be perfect here to catch all those pins that come off while you're ironing. This is a little catch-all I just made from some leftover clothesline rope And by attaching a small little button of velcro I finally have a place for this sew stick And lastly I added a couple of velcro wraps just to keep my iron cords in place when not in use I love how this helps tidy up my space I still have a lot more to do but this is a great start and it's only January so what do you think? I guess I have to do a video now on ironing If you like this video please give it a thumbs up If you haven't yet. please subscribe below You can also find me on Facebook and Instagram at Just Get it Done Quilts Take care and I'll see you next time

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Id: 4t2NftGwAZQ

Length: 11min 14sec (674 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 13 2019