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!)
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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.
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What do you think? Leave a comment and let me know! I’d love to hear from you.
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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
Thanks, glad you like it!
Very cute and clever using the drawer pulls 🙂 Love what paint can do to anything!
Thank you!
Clever and cute and an easy up do!
Carol
Thanks, Carol!
Also love Dollar General. Found some cute solid color vases for $3.00. Thinking about painting something on them.
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.
We soo love, love your blog. These how to’s are just amazing! That bucket up there looks like a great deal!
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Thanks so much! I appreciate that.
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