Uploaded November 2016 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
Photo credit: Marwa Hayat
Lately, I've been loving all the colorful furs I've been seeing in magazines, Pinterest, and my favorite interior decor sites. But when I saw how expensive it was to buy a few ... I knew the only way I'd be able to incorporate them into my home was to make them myself. So, I figured out this super simple technique to add some color and character to the common faux fur ... without creating a whole mess and spending a ton of money.
While there are many ways to dye a synthetic fur, I choose to experiment with acrylic paint because at the last moment I couldn't find synthetic dye for my faux fur in hand. Acrylic paint is known to make fabric stiff, which is why we submerged ours in a watered down acrylic solution as if tinting the fur and had it rinsed clean to avoid the same.
Read the full tutorial here:
curbly.com/users/marwahayat/posts/18325-ikea-hack-how-to-dye-faux-fur-and-make-it-into-this-totally-stylish-lampshade
Photo credit: Marwa Hayat
Lately, I've been loving all the colorful furs I've been seeing in magazines, Pinterest, and my favorite interior decor sites. But when I saw how expensive it was to buy a few ... I knew the only way I'd be able to incorporate them into my home was to make them myself. So, I figured out this super simple technique to add some color and character to the common faux fur ... without creating a whole mess and spending a ton of money.
While there are many ways to dye a synthetic fur, I choose to experiment with acrylic paint because at the last moment I couldn't find synthetic dye for my faux fur in hand. Acrylic paint is known to make fabric stiff, which is why we submerged ours in a watered down acrylic solution as if tinting the fur and had it rinsed clean to avoid the same.
Read the full tutorial here:
curbly.com/users/marwahayat/posts/18325-ikea-hack-how-to-dye-faux-fur-and-make-it-into-this-totally-stylish-lampshade
