One day this summer the Goodwill was selling all their baskets for half price. I decided this would be a fun opportunity to pick up some baskets that had a nice shapes to them, but ugly color and make them over with paint.
I got carried away and started painting this one before taking my "before'' picture. You can see it as a long, oval shaped basket.
It was a light straw color.
I wanted it to have a Tuscan farmhouse look. First I spray painted it black and then I dry brushed on some brown craft paint.
The "after" basket.
Here is the next "before" I thought this was a really cute little basket. Unfortunately what this photo doesn't show is the basket was a very orangey brown color.
I decided to give this one a beachy look.
This basket took six different paint applications before I got it to look the way I wanted it too. Luckily I like to paint.
The final basket. I really liked the metal on the bottom of this one.
The top however also had a very orangey tone to it.
I decided to do a shabby chic/beachy look. (does that even make sense?)
I used a piece of raffia to tie a starfish Christmas ornament to it.
Please check out more thrifty treasures and transformations at:
I got carried away and started painting this one before taking my "before'' picture. You can see it as a long, oval shaped basket.
It was a light straw color.
I wanted it to have a Tuscan farmhouse look. First I spray painted it black and then I dry brushed on some brown craft paint.
The "after" basket.
Here is the next "before" I thought this was a really cute little basket. Unfortunately what this photo doesn't show is the basket was a very orangey brown color.
I decided to give this one a beachy look.
This basket took six different paint applications before I got it to look the way I wanted it too. Luckily I like to paint.
The final basket. I really liked the metal on the bottom of this one.
The top however also had a very orangey tone to it.
I decided to do a shabby chic/beachy look. (does that even make sense?)
I used a piece of raffia to tie a starfish Christmas ornament to it.Please check out more thrifty treasures and transformations at:
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