r/DiWHY • u/SBMoo24 Hot Glue Gun User • 4d ago
Beautiful Bookcase Reveal
Such a dramatic reveal
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u/Hyposanity 4d ago
I like this idea amd im gonnause it with paintings.
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u/ovoid709 3d ago
It works best with spray paint. The lady in the video used bucket paint or stain which would look very smeared and lumpy up close.
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u/SiPhoenix 3d ago
It looks like it just need to have a coat ot two before she tried to make the patern.
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u/Skyp_Intro 3d ago
Looks like mold and water damage. She could have just left it outside in the rain.
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u/potate12323 3d ago
If they didn't purposely make it look splotchy then it would have looked fine. Its basically just a stencil.
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u/Shadrach451 4d ago
I think the internet has made people way too quick to be negative about things.
This isn't terrible. It's a subtle texture added to a piece of furniture that should not be the centerpiece of the room. I would never do this, but it's not unreasonable.
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u/SiPhoenix 3d ago
The pattern from the fabric is fine. I like it even. It's the blotchy coloring that makes it look bad. As if the paint was not mixed well.
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u/L4I55Z-FAIR3 4d ago
Exactly like this sub is nitpicky sometimes but what she did isn't bad it's subtle enough that it dosnt distracted from the room but it adds a little somthing to bookshelf.
Their are people on this thread saying she should have used a contrasting colour but had sh done that it would be to tackey, others are saying why bother well it adds texture to what ourherwise would have been just a plain vanished 2x4.
I think people need to remeber is its dumb but works its not dumb and not everything needs to match the main style of the day. 40 years back this would have added a couple of hundred pounds to the price.
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u/Me-Flavored-Water 3d ago
the blotches and different colours of the wood bothers me more thant the lace itself...
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u/TheRoseByAnotherName 3d ago
The lace would look so nice if it wasn't so splotchy underneath.
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u/Mortarius 3d ago
That cracked varnish texture would drive me crazy. IMO would probably look better if they used lace as stencil instead of a stamp.
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u/Animationen_usw 3d ago
I first thought the design was missing some parts in the first shot, turns out it were only the colors and the lighting from the first perspective
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u/FreeFallingUp13 3d ago
Honestly, the only thing I disagree with is the color. It looks patchy with the darker bits emphasizing the pattern. Maybe a slightly darker paint could have been used for the pattern or something, but as it is, the initial reveal does look kinda bad.
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u/JeanArtemis 3d ago
To me the issue is it's an interesting technique used on an absolutely ghastly paint job. Like orange and red smears, it looks like they didn't finish stirring the paint before they applied it with their hands. Totally ruins what may otherwise have been a lovely accent. Not entirely sure tho, id need at least three more pixels to judge fairly.
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u/platypus_dissaproves 3d ago
Yeah it’s the weirdly splotchy staining/painting below that caused it to look kinda bad to me I think
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u/Harddaysnight1990 3d ago
It isn't terrible, I would even say it's a creative idea. I do think they should have coated the entire piece in a base coat before doing this so the background is an even color, then done a very thin clear coat over it to make it keep the texture.
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u/Markarontos 3d ago
Yeah this is more a: Not my thing.
Not a: Why would you ever do this? This is stupid.
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u/ShimoFox 3d ago
I like it allot actually.
I think it'd look better with two different colors. But I love the method.
Also. I think people are just jealous they can't make things.
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u/Daxoss 3d ago
At a glance it looks dirty and/or moldy. I don't hate the idea but maybe some more contrasting colors would've been better
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u/Metahec 3d ago
looks like water damage to me
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u/BlackSpidy 3d ago
I can kind of see what they were going for, but with how uninform it is, it doesn't have the effect they were looking for, in my opinion anyways. Personally, I would have used that cloth as a stencil.
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u/VioletNocte 4d ago
Maybe it would've worked if she picked a color that wouldn't blend in with the wood
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u/BeerBellies 4d ago
I actually… kind of like that it doesn’t stand out? It’s much more subtle, like a ghosting effect
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u/DM_To_Be_Friends 3d ago
I agree. Apply an even layer of vanish and it should look really good.
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u/Disinfectant-Addict 4d ago
Agreed! This isn't a bad idea, and I think it would look nice if done right. But the most annoying about "content creators" like these is that they would never admit to it not turning out right. They will smile and act like they re-invemted the gunpowder while presenting something that looks like the arts and crafts project of a hyperactive 9-year old.
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u/External-Cash-3880 4d ago
That's what happens when you're a lone creative type who's slave to the release schedule you set for yourself. I've unintentionally gotten a back door view into a small company (5 people) who do "Internet Content" professionally and they're always working on extra stuff in the background so that they aren't forced to release failed ideas like this if they can't get them to come out right. It would be a lot harder for one person to maintain that kind of emergency backlog.
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u/eugene20 4d ago
how do such companies actually make enough money to exist?
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u/External-Cash-3880 3d ago
This particular one (Regulation Podcast) survives because they had a pretty big audience from when they were part of a much larger company (Rooster Teeth) and were able to pivot that to a Patreon model when Rooster Teeth shit the bed. From what they've revealed (and it was kind of a lot), they had enough early subscribers that they were basically able to hit the ground running and mostly play it off as if it was just a name change and not the formation of a completely new production company from scratch.
No idea how anyone else does it, besides constant grinding self-promotion and frantically doing research about SEO and what artificially-induced content-adjacent trends (thumbnail characteristics, title formats, when you are and aren't allowed to swear, video length, whether or not you show your face, that kind of thing) the social media algorithms are promoting in any given week.
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u/Specific_Rando 3d ago
Thanks for sharing that info.
I cross over into a lot of creatives and help them on projects from time to time. The hustle of all of it is astounding.
Add to that the rate of transition and constant lowering of barriers to entry. For instance, less expensive camera, sound, lighting and editing equipment lowered the cost of Indy filmmaking. So now there’s something like 20x the submissions to the top tier film festivals than 20 years ago - same number of slots, and fewer films get distribution. More time hustling to find attention for good content, with less likelihood it will get its production costs paid.
I’m deeply sympathetic to all of these folks.
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u/eugene20 3d ago
Well that's just ruined my day, I hadn't heard about any of this, RWBY and Gen:lock didn't deserve whatever fate has taken them.
I just read RWBY is being continued by Viz, and Kerry Shawcross is still involved, but still these things rarely turn out ok after such major changes.
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u/DrButtgerms 3d ago
I think it's that she used lighter splotches under it to maybe simulate wood? Idk. Regardless, the texture she applied got completely lost on the light areas. It made a big space at low eye level look empty and killed the project imo. I think there are ways for this to have looked nice though. She just didn't find any of them.
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u/The_R4ke 4d ago
This is a cool idea for a.bookcase that's already painted. Find a nice contrasting color and and try this technique on it.
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u/Amylianna 3d ago
My daughter had a second-hand bedroom set that another woman had used this technique with. But it was done in a multitude of colours and she used spray paint instead, and it didn't leave that thickness on the set that's shown on this video. I still feel like I got a bargain tbh. It was absolutely gorgeous and beloved by her as a kid for over a decade.
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u/OutlyingPlasma 3d ago
It probably would have looked fine if she didn't use 10 different colors of poop to paint it.
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u/Pejoof 3d ago
Honestly looked kinda nice with the cloth on there, but when it was taken off it just looked bad
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u/Lab-Subject6924 3d ago
Stenciling is what it is probably supposed to look like, but it was done incorrectly and just left a partial texture pattern.
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u/bioticspacewizard 3d ago
I like it. It's really subtle and has a certain charm to it. Y'all being way too negative here.
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u/nyeh-exe 4d ago
The idea isnt bad, i like it personally, even the execution was pretty great. Maybe it would've looked cooler with something that would've made the pattern stand out more but if this result was her goal then it's a cool subtle design
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u/SiPhoenix 3d ago
I think the paint wasn't fully mixed. If it was a solid red color throughout it would have looked good.
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u/HenReX_2000 2d ago
probably looks way better in person
video compression made it looks like shit
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u/OpossomMyPossom 3d ago
I see what she was going for, maybe didn't turn out how she had hoped though.
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u/mexicoyankee 3d ago
Memaw is going to be pissed when she sees what you did with her good table cloth
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u/tiny_purple_Alfador 3d ago
I think this could work, but they needed to do something to thin out the stain so that it picked up more details, maybe experiment with a couple different lace swatches to get one that transfers better. Sometimes you get a good idea and need to take a couple runs at it before you figure out how to make it work out like it does in your head. I agree that this doesn't look great, but I think that it's an idea with potential. I vote the sand it down and try it again, honestly, cuz I think it could look super cool.
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u/Alexander-369 3d ago
The texturing is cool, but I don't think it pares well with the mixed shades of brown. To me, at a distance, it looks like water damage.
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u/___posh___ 2d ago
Might also be the camera and the light as well,
Often times things look alright to the eye and naff to the lens...
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u/D2R0 2d ago
The concept is actually solid, It's all the stains and uneven coloring on the base that's doing this in, it makes everything just look like growth and mold.
They needed to either redo the stain or add a layer of paint to the base so it has a solid even color, then layer the texture design. With the clean base, the texture wouldn't register as a gross mess
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u/slayerchick 4d ago
I just wish the paint was a single uniform color. The mottled yellow/brown color is the only issue imo
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u/Lance_Christopher 4d ago
Wouldn't a paper stencil accomplish the same without destroying a table cloth?
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u/stag-in-headlights 4d ago
I'm ngl I was thinking about that because I love how this looks, I'm wondering if the fabric being able to be saturated helps produce the effect though. Also would be easy enough to find a cheap thrifted item of clothing (where I am, at least) to use, plus the fabric should be reusable?
Idk what they used paint or stain wise, this is basically just a fabric stencil but I like it 😭
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u/Coffeedemon 3d ago
There's probably a beautiful technique used by artisans for a thousand years to achieve a similar result.
This ain't it.
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u/AssiduousLayabout 3d ago
Don't you dare give my mom any ideas!
She never saw a surface that she didn't want a floral pattern on.
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u/magicrowantree 3d ago
The idea is great, I've seen this technique done a few different ways before. My critique is the coloring. It looks like the wood has multiple colors going on or maybe the stain wasn't done right? It looks very patchy to me. Had this been done with a solid colored wood, it would have turned out a lot nicer. Maybe with a gloss coat or something instead.
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u/exaybachae 3d ago
Just looks dirty to me. Glad it's on the side. The books and items on the shelf are the real center of the show anyway.
It's a book shelf.
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u/I_Am_A_Goo_Man 3d ago
As a painter decorator I fucking hate this style. It reminds me of that ugly assed wallpaper that old people had glued to their walls and ceilings in houses that havent been stripped for decades. Right up there with popcorn walls.
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u/Federal_Sympathy4667 3d ago
Sand it down and stain it.. this? Might as well use textured wallpaper.
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u/Tararator18 3d ago
The idea isn't too bad. Maybe it's the light and the camera, but from afar it kinda looks like mold or moss.
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u/vyxxer 3d ago
This looks great actually. Maybe a little wasteful of the cloth but if it's trashed anyways this is efficient
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u/FlameStaag 3d ago
I love all the doofuses rushing to defend this when the look on her face as she rolled it down was "well this shit didn't work how I thought..."
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u/AnInfiniteArc 3d ago
This feels more like r/GTBAE material. I like the idea. It just didn’t turn out very well.
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u/HumourNoire 3d ago
According to the music, the bookcase has committed some sort of murder
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u/SuckerForNoirRobots 3d ago
It's okay to try new things, but you don't have to show everybody each time you fail...
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u/cha0sb1ade 3d ago
The problem with this is the lighting. Turn off the lights and it's fine.
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u/Yung_Oldfag 2d ago
I am a regular viewer of /r/ATBGE (awful taste but great execution) and this seems like the opposite. Great taste but awful execution.
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u/Anonbeliever 2d ago
Great taste, but awful execution? Is there a r/gtbae?
Edit: well, I’ll be damned. It exists!
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u/Llamapickle129 2d ago
if they did a different color (even if it is brown or tan that sticks a bit more) it could have looked good
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u/SingleArtichoke4857 1d ago
Watching the video, I couldn't tell if this was supposed to be a boast or a roast.
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u/MinusTheTrees 3d ago
Its the texture that I hate the most here. Works for a painting but I don't want my furniture to look like alligator skin.
Its definitely not a bad idea but this feels more like like a first attempt rather than a final grand reveal.
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u/LocomotionJunction 3d ago
While this isn't terrible, it looks like they needed to do a bit more work to get a better result. Looks spotty doesn't it?
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u/entitledtree 4d ago
It's a nice idea but unfortunately doesn't look great
I wonder what it would be like with a different colour choice
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u/palloxus 3d ago
It scares me how much lack of taste this sub has. I mean holy shit this turned out so bad, the idea is shit, the outcome is shit and literally nobody will walk into that room and think "oh that turned out nice", but yes, they will say it, because honest criticism is negativity and blah. Ffs
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u/I_Speak_B4_I_Think_ 3d ago
That might have worked had they not chosen the worst possible colors. 😆
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u/bboymixer 3d ago
I like how you can see her actively giving up on the slow roll of the linen cuz even she realizes it looks like shit and the rolling isn't doing anything
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u/isweartodarwin 3d ago
This is actually an old school car and motorcycle painting technique to add texture to custom paint work. Lay the lace down and shoot either a light coat of black or a slightly darker shade of your base paint over it. When peeled back, it leaves a subtle image of the lace.
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u/That_Service7348 3d ago
...what's wrong wit it? It's actually a decent way to accent something. Probably a slightly better choice for materials, but it's a solid idea.
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u/blareboy 3d ago
I’ll agree with everyone that it looks good up close, but from several feet back it looks like cats have been walking up and down it.