Trash to Treasure DIY Mosaic Table Tutorial

[Music] everyone welcome to lovin life's journey I'm Chantal thank you so much for tuning in today I have a DIY project that I am so excited to share with you because it is something I have been wanting to try for a super long time if you are new to my channel thank you so much for stopping by if you like DIY projects Dollar Tree DIY is DIYs on a budget then be sure to hit that subscribe button because I do a lot of that here on this channel and don't forget to hit the bell and set your notifications so that YouTube will notify you when I upload new videos so I've been wanting to play with mosaics for a long time and I just have never really taken the plunge to figure it out or or give it a try so I was in the thrift store and I found this cute little table it was only three dollars and so I picked it up about a month ago and I really didn't have a plan for it I just thought it was cute and it was three bucks so I got that and it's been sitting here in my craft room for a month or longer and I just decided I really wanted to try some mosaics so since we really can't go out of our house now I had to improvise on a few things and I'll share with you about those as I go through the tutorial and how I did my mosaic table but I'm really excited with how it turned out it came out so good especially for my first time trying something like this and even though I'm calling this a how-to or a tutorial honestly it's more just how I did it because I am NOT a professional this is my first experience working with mosaics I watched some videos on how to do it and read some things online but I am certainly not a professional so if you work with mosaics and do tile things and you see things that I'm totally doing wrong then I am certainly open to constructive criticism so leave those comments below for me I thought he came out pretty good and I did pretty good for my first try I'm really excited to share this with you so let's jump in and get started so first I'm just taking some sandpaper and going over the iron legs just to rough it up a little bit to prep it for some spray paint so I'm just going to freshen up the iron legs with some black spray-paint this is some I picked up off of Amazon but you can pick it up at craft stores or at Walmart at least if you're able to get to those stores but if not you can get it on Amazon so I just painted the legs and then I also painted that underside of the tabletop just so it had a nice fresh coat of paint [Music] once that was dry I took the sandpaper and just went around the edge of the tabletop and also across the top of the table and got rid of any raised areas or spots that needed smoothed out [Music] since my new craft desk has now become my home office for the next however long I will be working on this project in my dining room so originally I had wanted to go to some thrift stores and pick up some miscellaneous dishes that I could break up and use for this project however since I am NOT getting out of the house Amazon to the rescue again I got these Mexican tiles and they are advertised as broken tile and they came most of them broken but some of them were full tiles except for just maybe a tiny chip and I am using these for this project and so I just took them all out of the box and kind of sorted them and organized them by colors I really don't have a plan for how I'm going to do this mosaic I just I'm kind of going to plan it as I go and see what tiles I like and what I want to use [Music] so there seem to be quite a few that have the navy blue and also the green in them and I like those colors so I'll probably be using those predominantly in this project and I'm thinking of using one of these full tiles as the center of my table top I wasn't too sure how I was going to break these up so I thought I would experiment a little bit I'm putting a tile inside a gallon ziplock bag and then I have a cutting board and I'm just going to try and tap it with the hammer and see if I can break it into smaller pieces and I actually tried to tap pretty hard on this cutting board and it did not break so I found that I had to take it out to the garage and lay it on the cement and then I tapped it with the edge of the hammer and it broke really easily that way [Music] then once I had my tiles broken into pieces about the size that I wanted I just started to lay them out on my tabletop and I'm starting with the outside edge first and just laying them around and placing them dry before I put any glue on them I want to lay it out so that I have it set like it's going to be before I start gluing anything down I played around with several different things for the center of my table and ultimately I decided to go ahead and use a full tile that barely had a teeny tiny chip out of the edge of it as the focal point for my table and then I'm just building around that filling in with the different tiles and I did kind of a white background tile right around that Center tile and then I did kind of green tiles around the outside edge and then all of the rest had more of the blue background in it and so it's really not a definite pattern but I did try to do somewhat of a little bit of a pattern so before I glue anything down I'm just measuring to make sure that Center tile is in the center and I traced around it with a pencil and then I'm using this weld bond glue this was recommended for tile and you put a thin layer on the surface and then a thin layer on the tile and press that down and this worked really well it started to set up pretty quickly within five minutes you could tell it was really sticking and within an hour its dry and then completely set in 24 hours so one thing I found out the hard way was that I needed to make sure that all of my tiles were the same thickness because I'm just using a thin glue underneath them and so they needed to be the same thickness if I wanted my tabletop to be level if you are using tile that is uneven then you would want to use like a mastic underneath so it's thicker and you can push down at different levels your tiles to make your tabletop a level and so I had to really pick and choose my tiles to make sure that I had a level tabletop since the gaps between my tiles are larger than eighth of an inch I needed to use a sanded grout and this is important so that it has stability and it won't crack and I'm also going to be using a cake decorating bag and then a little putty knife and I have a couple containers one to mix my grout in and then the other I have a bucket and some sponges to put some water in so it wasn't sure really how much of this grout to mix up so I actually ended up mixing up about twice as much as I needed but I just put a little bit of water in my container and then added the sanded grout powder and I'm using this in the color of antique white we just picked this up at Ace Hardware and so I'm sure you can get it at Home Depot Lowe's you can probably order it online but we got it at Ace Hardware and I will put a list of all of the supplies that I used in the description box with links to where you can get them the instructions on the bag just said to mix this to this desired consistency but I wasn't really sure what that was and I think I mixed mine a little bit thick but it still ended up working great and so I kind of went with the idea that since I was using a piping bag to put this in between the tiles that I made it the consistency of frosting so that's kind of what I went by it did you're supposed to let it sit for like 10 minutes and then stir it again and it did thicken up quite a bit during that time but anyway it was pretty easy to work with the reason I'm using a piping bag is because we thought we had one of those floating tile trowel to float the grout on and we could not find it anywhere we looked everywhere and since we're not supposed to be going out of the house I just decided to look up alternatives and I saw that you could use what they call a grout bag which is basically the same thing as one of these piping bags for cake decorating and I had some of those so I just used a disposable cake decorating bag and I'll show you here in a minute how that worked out so here you can see that the grout mixture is thickened up quite a bit but as I worked with it it seemed to soften back up so here is my piping bag I'm going to put it in a glass and fill it up that makes it really easy and then I'm going to snip off the end of the bag so that I can pipe that out and I am just squeezing it out in between all of the tiles filling in all of the spaces really well and then I'm using the putty knife to just spread it around a little bit and I thought this worked really well I think it would be faster to use the trowel however I think this is a less messy way to do it although I wouldn't recommend doing this technique on a large piece that you're doing mosaic on because your hand will probably get really tired so I'm doing a small section at a time filling in the grout and then going over it with a putty knife and also using my finger a little bit but then I'm taking a wet sponge and wiping off all of the excess grout until it's only between the tiles and the tiles are clean [Music] and I did read that if you choose a grout color that is contrasting to your tile colors then that will really help your tile colors to pop and make your design stand out more [Music] so as you can see I did have about twice as much grout as I needed but live and learn I had a big bag and I still have a lot left for future projects so one of my biggest challenges with this project was knowing what to do with the edge of the table I wasn't sure exactly how to put tile on the edge so I decided to just paint the edge and I'm using ivory colored chalk paint by Waverly to paint the edge and then I decided to when I put the tiles on the top of the table I actually left about a quarter of an inch around the edge of the table and I am going to be using some nautical rope from Dollar Tree and I am going to just put this around the edge of the table up against the tiles just to finish it off and I really like this kind of mixed-media thing it just adds a different texture and it finishes it off and I'm going to be keeping this table inside so this will work really well and the nautical rope was perfect for this so I am not gonna lie this project was pretty time-consuming which is one reason I have not actually done a mosaic project in the past but I figured now was a perfect time to tackle this and I really enjoyed it I just put some music on and just had a fun time of working on this project and I loved how it turned out I hope that you liked this video and I hope that it inspires you to try something new whether it's mosaics or something else that you've been wanting to try if you did like this video please give it a thumbs up it helps my channel to grow if you haven't subscribed yet hit that subscribe button and stick around so that you'll get to see lots more DIY projects in the future so there it is my very first mosaic DIY project I love it it's a great trash to treasure transformation and I just want to thank you for watching and I hope you have a blessed day and all stay safe and healthy [Music] you

Channel: Lovin' Life's Journey DIY

Views: 253,514

Keywords: Mosaic, table, diy, top, tile, Mexican, how to, tutorial, step by step, thrift, store, trash, treasure, flip, grout, round, plant, stand, accent, home, decor, make, broken

Id: mYu_hdifwY8

Length: 17min 27sec (1047 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 29 2020