This is part of our Tiny House, Tiny Bloggers series, in which we turn over Plaster & Disaster to some VERY tiny bloggers to tell their own story of transforming an ugly, old (doll)house into a fresh and modern (doll)home. Follow it from the beginning here.

Disclaimer:  Inclusion on this blog is not an endorsement by Plaster & Disaster of the tiny blogger’s methods or design decisions.  Plaster & Disaster cannot be held responsible for your terrible decor choices after reading one of their tutorials.  All opinions are their own.

Tiny Bloggers back in action, still hard at work on our living room makeover! Last we shared, we had taken a break from furniture-building and were adding pops of color to the house with some oversized (for us) houseplants.

Now we’re back in the furniture game, here to share a tutorial for the coffee table we built! If you’ve ever heard Sage prattle on (and on and on) about her metal coffee table, you know Plaster & Disaster loves a good coffee table DIY. But we didn’t feel like drilling 5,000 tiny holes for the base like Sage did, so we jumped on the faux metal coffee table bandwagon by building ours out of wood and then painting it with oil rubbed bronze (ORB for the win, as always!).

For the top, we knew we’d be using a marble slab that Naomi and Sage offered us, which they had leftover from that time they pillaged an abandoned school and found a depressing room full of sports trophies with marble bases.

But like Dad always said, when life hands you lemons sad abandoned trophies, make lemonade a coffee table.

Hence the supplies were simple: one long piece wood (with a square profile), the marble remnant, and a GIANT saw. (ORB not pictured, but presumably you already have ORB on hand if you’re even remotely handy.)

(Yes our marble top had a hole in it from where the trophy used to sit, but we had a plan for covering that teeny tiny flaw.)

We started by cutting the wood to length for the frame. Somebody (cough…Sage…cough) didn’t bother thinking about measurements when they went supply shopping, and we were pretty darn close to not having enough. That tiny little piece on the bottom is all that was left after cutting four pieces to run horizontally on the long sides, four pieces to run vertically at the corners, and four pieces to run horizontally on the short sides.

Next we used glue and clamps to assemble the frame. We started with each of the ends:

And then added the bottom cross pieces:

And finally the top cross pieces:

Voila!

Then we just hit it with a few thin and even coats of ORB, and you’d never even know it’s made out of wood and glue rather than being a structurally sound metal frame fit to support a giant slab of marble!

The last step was to glue on the marble top:

And as I mentioned, we had a solution to cover that hole in the center: a tray! As you’ve no doubt learned from reading DIY blogs by now, trays are a solution to pretty much every problem you’ll ever encounter, from how to corral your jewelry, to how to corral your toiletries, to apparently how to cover a hole in your furniture.

And here it is!

We’re so thrilled with how it turned out, I can’t stop smiling.

Next up on the living room to-do list: scrape the paint off our windows, and figure out what to do with the sad empty side of the room under the bay window!

This is part of our Tiny House, Tiny Bloggers series, in which we turn over Plaster & Disaster to some VERY tiny bloggers to tell their own story of transforming an ugly, old (doll)house into a fresh and modern (doll)home.  Follow it from the beginning here.

Disclaimer:  Inclusion on this blog is not an endorsement by Plaster & Disaster of the tiny blogger’s methods or design decisions.  Plaster & Disaster cannot be held responsible for your terrible decor choices after reading one of their tutorials. All opinions are their own.

Greetings! We’re popping in today to share a quick and easy project that has made a big difference in our tiny house. Last we left you, we had moved on from our daughter Madison’s room makeover and were getting down to business in the living room, starting with the modern sofa we made from scratch.

These big projects are super satisfying, but sometimes in a home renovation you need a quick win! We were starting to feel like our blogger status was in jeopardy because we didn’t have single fiddle leaf fig, succulent, or other houseplant. We’re all for oversized plants, but it’s still hard to find ones that come in our scale…. So we realized that if we wanted plants, we’d have to make our own! Fortunately it turned out to be really easy (and as usual, Naomi and Sage pitched in most of the labor).

We started with a grass mat that Naomi found on sale at Michael’s.

It makes for a nice place to lie down and daydream about being a blogger, but the pieces pop off individually too. Honestly we’re not really sure what this thing would be used for besides making tiny houseplants…fortunately for us, that’s exactly what we wanted to do with it!

“We” also picked up some little adobe planters.

Obviously this was a great opportunity to bring in some fun and personality, so we whipped out our craft paint and got to work! In no time we had transformed the drab planters to reflect our unique personalities, which are totally different than other bloggers personalities.

Blocky lettered sayings, polka dots, “tribal” patterns, and dipped turquoise aren’t overdone, are they?

To assemble the plants, we just stacked together the plants pieces for the various plant sized we wanted. We decided to create a few medium-sized plant (for side tables or the floor), and one tall plant. For the tall one we needed something to add a little stability, so we used a toothpick.

The final step was to secure everything in place using a little spare dirt from Sage’s yard. And voila, we have some beautiful plants that we can use to add life and pops of color to our home!

So far we have them in Madison’s room and the living room, but we can’t wait to add more.

The best part is that they will never die, despite the extreme temperature fluctuations where we live (Sage’s guest room).