Make Theirs Yours: Roman Columns at Home

Tamara Maslar: You’ve got a lemur than at less then you may not have a lot of choices when it comes to decorating but we’ve got design ideas that will help you make there place to fill like yours. And every idea is temporary so you will get that deposit back. Don’t you do think this is a great architectural detail; well I made it out of plaster and kiddy litter. On a lot of apartment you really don’t have much of an entrance; it’s a door into a living room so I am going to show you how we can create that space. So you will be needing, two ten pound bags of kitty litter, four building forms 8 inches in diameter, one form with 10 inches diameter, some insulation foam, a full size or queen size bed sheet, duct tape, drop cloth, we will need a staple gun, staples, gloves, scissors, will need a bag of plaster of paris with the bucket and a saw. So to begin with we are going to set up a work bench and then I am going to put the 10 inches building core right on top here because what we are going to do is saw a portion of that off. I’ve got about 6 inches here and this is going to be the top and bottom and to the column. So if you want it wider you can have it and if you want it thinner is quite up to you this is great work out. Step two, you are going to take your building forms, the 8 inches in diameter and you are going to stock them right on top of each other like so and then we are going to take some duct tape and we are going to carefully, surgically place it around. And then we are going to use our insulation so we are going to take this and we are going to be rolling it and we are going to be sticking it on the cone like this to create ridges and now we are going to put really, really hard to staple in just like that and I really recommend wearing gloves because I’ve done this without it and end up with blister and not really a fun thing. Now again if you run a budget you can always you stock around your house and you can save all of your Christmas wrapping roll and instead of buying this insulation you can use that for this ridges. Now, we are going to put the cup on the top of our column just like that and then will going to staple gun the insulation around this and we wanted to be nice and bulky in creating with it and it’s actually start in that making and fill like what is the content can be. So now are going to take our full or queen size flat sheets and we are going to cut it into a four strips. Now this is a lot of fun so let’s say you have any really bad day and you want to get out some aggression or you get to rip up some sheet. Now I’m using a white color sheet because once you are using the plaster, the sheet color was you through so having it white would be a better option for you that if you unless you like yellow daisies its up to you. Okay let’s go to the poster now, now right before you do your plaster I would make sure that your whole areas completely set up because plaster sets very, very quickly and you want to make sure you have a nice warm day so that the plaster dries. You use two parts plaster to one part water. This is of mushy consistency to this and alright I think that’s pretty good and it doesn’t have lamps in and don’t even worry about it. So now we are going to take one of the strips and we’re going to dip it in the water and I like to put the whole thing in and mix it. Alright doesn’t have look fun, so I’m going to take this whole sheet and we’re going to smooth it out along the whole length of the column. Now, when I was in Italy and was there because my husband is in the military we got to see a lot of really old roman columns and you could see that the underneath the plaster work were a lot of bricks and on top of those bricks they are actually created this plaster effect and this ridges so that’s what we were doing right here with the plaster so without the bricks but with cardboard and we were creating the same exact thing. And when it dries it’s going to look wonderful. The plaster of paris back actually says let it dry for about 24 hours and I would definitely recommend that but you can bring it inside probably after two or three hours. Will it’s 24 hours later and we have a foam that is nice and dry so we are going to set it up in our space and now I’m going to show you what to do with that kitty litter I’m show while you are wondering. We are going to place the kitty litter right inside the column and what that’s going to do is to help that stand better incase anybody pumps into it so it is nice. So, now we get to decorate it, we have some great organza here and it’s kind of a cheer fabric and we are going to drape that around and what that’s going to do is it’s going to help the way of the cone to shine through. Now if you don’t have organza you can use a scarf, you can use just regular fabric it’s up to you whatever we have around he house. So what this piece does is they help to define the space and create a beautiful focal point the in the room here. It will separate the entrance way from the living area, a really great idea to have in this apartment. The best thing about this is you can change the look of it depending on your mood. For an autumn look is bang, playing. Its moving days so we are going to rid of this out the door. As you can see we just remove the column so your Leonard were even know that you are here. You have any left over plaster on the floor or the ceiling you can always take wet rug and wipe it off. That’s it I’m done here.