MR

MR is a collaboration between Mariel (Osborn) and Rivca (Burns) spanning different mediums and formats. For Covet MR focuses on Modern Recycling, where the pair specialise in reclaiming materials or furniture and fixing them up in a beautiful way, or making something totally new from them.

Their first pieces for Covet have been the sofa seats and pallet shelves, which are custom made, to order, so you can have a bespoke up-cycled piece of furniture that fits perfectly into your house.
 

Looking forward to renovating some chest of drawers, and also some cane furniture (swoon!) the pair wanted to show us how easy it can be to make new and useful things for your home.

Here we are featuring their new project - a coat rack, and you can make one too!

To make this coat rack you will need:
2x pieces of fairly wide, flat wood. (We are using old bed slats!)
4x screws
doorknobs with screws (we have used 11)
4x rawlplugs
paint
a paintbrush
a drill
a screwdriver
a saw

 

1. Paint your pieces of wood whatever colour you want your coat rack to be. We just used some leftover white paint that was in the cupboard. You may need to do a few coats, and if you do, you'll need to let the paint dry in-between layers. We did 3 coats.

 2. Lay the pieces out how you want the coat rack to look.

3. Draw along both of the edges of the top piece, to mark on to the bottom piece.

4. When you take the top piece off, the bottom piece will look something like this. These marks are where you need to saw this piece of wood.

5. Once you have sawed that plank, you can glue your pieces together to make a flat cross. When we made ours, we added a short coloured piece on top afterwards as a decorative feature.

6. Now you need to mark out where you'd like your "hooks" to go.

7. You need to drill holes in these points...

8. Then poke the back screw bit in...

9. Then you can screw the fronts on...

10. Drill holes in the wall where you want the rack to go, and pop the rawlplugs in. Then screw the coat rack into place!

Now you can have a go at this yourself! We didn't measure anything out on ours as we didn't want it to be too symmetrical or perfect. We loved the idea of just whipping this together too, and it is a very fast project to do.

Though if you don't want to make this yourself, get in touch via email, and we can make a custom order for you. (Email us at hello.covetinteriors [@] gmail.com)

Textures

Over the last few weeks I have been using my spare time to explore some different patterns and textures that I have wanted to experiment with for a while, but not had the time.

First up. Weird but really fun AND pretty.
Bubble blowing.

I've really wanted to do some marbling for quite a while, but as there's so much marbled pattern everywhere at the moment, I decided to try something different.

My thinking was that they would make great fabric backgrounds, however the paint that I was using doesn't leave much of a mark on the fabric (unless it soaks in and becomes a mess), so I'm not sure what they will be used for yet, but I love the nebula type patterns that are created once you start layering up the colours. I'd love to add a gold layer, and also try some collage with them too, so perhaps that's next.

If you want to do this then you don't need any specialist equipment!
You just need to lay out some paper to protect your table, then;

• a small quite short jam jar
• a few straws
• some paint (could be acrylic, poster, water colour)
• a jug of water
• washing up liquid 
• paper to work on

All you need to do is put a small amount of paint into the jar, (depending how dark you want the colour), add enough water to fill about a third of the jar, and add a few drops of washing up liquid. Pop a straw in the jar, and place on top of your paper.
Then all you need to do is gently blow! There's a bit of trial and error to get the right shapes and patterns. You may want to make the colour stronger, or even add more water.

You need to let the paper dry before each layer otherwise they will blend together.

Have fun with this. It's messy and made me feel like I was at playgroup, but getting the right colours and the right sized bubbles makes a really good result!