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Dollar Store Bucket Redo

April 22, 2012 By Erin Spain 11 Comments

I’ve been planning on getting some cute buckets to replace the wicker baskets on the bookcase in my kiddos’ room. Over the weekend, I took a trip to the dollar store to see what I could find. I didn’t find the right size buckets I needed for their room, but I did find some cute smaller ones in a variety of bright colors. I decided to give one of them a fun “makeover.”

Here is the red dollar store bucket BEFORE (see below). Cute, but plain. (It actually ended up looking very coral-colored after the makeover. Perfect for spring!)

Before

Here’s what I did:

First, I taped off the whole outside of the bucket, except for the top and bottom rim. I primed and spray painted the inside, rims and handles gold.

Next, I spray painted 4 small drawer pulls gold also, and hot glued them to the bottom as “feet.” I then used tiny cut-up pieces of the painter’s tape that had been painted gold during the bucket-painting, and stuck them around the bucket in a dotted line pattern. It’s not intended to be perfect – I was just playing around with a design. It will probably change. The great thing is, since it’s tape I can change it as often as I’d like!

This would go great as a coral accent to my turquoise room. I haven’t decided for sure yet where I will put it.

Not bad for a dollar! (Plus paint and drawer pulls.) It probably cost about $5.00 total.

After

What do you think? Leave a comment and let me know! I’d love to hear from you.

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Filed Under: Crafts, DIY, Home & DIY Blog, Tutorials

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Comments

  1. g*rated says

    April 23, 2012 at 1:50 am

    this is so cute and so clever! i love the contrast of the gold & red … so pretty! we’d love for you to link this up to our Sunday Best link party going on right now. http://griffithsrated.blogspot.com/2012/04/sunday-best-link-party_22.html
    -marie

    Reply
    • Erin Spain says

      April 24, 2012 at 6:04 pm

      Thanks, glad you like it!

      Reply
  2. [email protected] says

    April 23, 2012 at 4:42 pm

    Very cute and clever using the drawer pulls 🙂 Love what paint can do to anything!

    Reply
    • Erin Spain says

      April 24, 2012 at 6:05 pm

      Thank you!

      Reply
  3. Firecracker Kid says

    April 24, 2012 at 2:06 am

    Clever and cute and an easy up do!
    Carol

    Reply
    • Erin Spain says

      April 24, 2012 at 6:05 pm

      Thanks, Carol!

      Reply
  4. Pam says

    April 25, 2012 at 3:14 am

    Also love Dollar General. Found some cute solid color vases for $3.00. Thinking about painting something on them.

    Reply
    • Erin Spain says

      April 26, 2012 at 1:12 pm

      There is a Dollar Tree right down the road from us. It’s amazing the stuff you can find in there! And they have lots of craft supplies.

      Reply
  5. Dollar Store Merchandise says

    June 30, 2012 at 10:31 pm

    We soo love, love your blog. These how to’s are just amazing! That bucket up there looks like a great deal!

    More power to your blog!

    Reply
    • Erin Spain says

      June 30, 2012 at 10:52 pm

      Thanks so much! I appreciate that.

      Reply
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