Spring is in the air! When this time of year comes around I’m eager to greet the season with some DIY fun. What better than to go on a #trashure hunt adventure and create a DIY spring centerpiece from thrifted finds…right? Here is what I picked and am excited to share with you.
What you are looking at above there is a pair of candle holders, a stack of mini metal pails, some vintage linens, and a beat up Melissa & Doug toy wooden crate. If there ever was a motley crew, this is it. haha!
*post sponsored by HomeRight (see full disclosure)
While I don’t suggest running and dumping out your kids toys, I do, however, encourage you to see past the broken. It’s much like how our Lord sees us – potential. I’m so thankful He doesn’t give up on broken ol’ me.
DIY TIME
To get this DIY spring center piece party started, I break out one of my favorite set of tools – my HomeRight Small Spray Shelter and Turn Table. It pops up in seconds and affords me the guilt-free use of my workspace. No mess and no having to fabricate overspray excuses to JC (aka. husband). Been there done that for the last time. ahem.
First, I make a new bottom for the crate and attach with my nailer. Then, I stain the toy crate to give it a deeper base to work with.
Once the stain cured, I sprayed the crate with a Vintage Teal spray paint for some color fun. Likewise, you can see how I’ve used this same color in these posts.
Isn’t that pretty? eep! And, see how nice this shelter is? I’m tellin’ ya, you need one of these shelters. Also, you can see all the ways I use mine in these past posts.
PAINT
Eventually, as soon as the crate cures, I apply a layer of gray wax to add depth and a time-worn feel to the crate.
Next, I give two coats of a flat white spray paint to the candle holders, letting them cure in between coats.
In addition to the white spray paint, I also distressed the candlesticks and use a bit of gray wax as well. This gives them more depth and detail.
MORE PAINT
Meanwhile, I also tackle those mini metal pails. They’re cute and the brown isn’t so bad, but I wanted a different vibe for my finished look. I decided to give them an aged zinc look, much like I’ve done in the past with these projects.
First, I begin with two gray coats of paint and let cure. Then, I used a dark gray paint and my brush to pounce on a light layer. My video below shows this best.
I also wanted to give these more time-worn wear. However, this time I used a white wax to “wash” the pails. Brush on working around the pail, and buff off. My video demonstrates this best.
Finally, all my parts are ready to be put together into my thrifted DIY spring centerpiece. Yay!
SPRING
Finally, as a result of our thrifty fun, we have a colorful pop of color for our dining table. The crate gives the perfect base for adding the pails and pillars. Then, I added a few scraps of vintage lace and some moss to fill in.
Not only does this work for spring with the pretty primrose, but also can be used for candles, as bathroom caddy, or even to corral your kitchen goodies. The uses are endless!
My favorite is the vintage linens. Are you a sucker for them too? I daresay I have more than I should, but hey, we all have things we cherish, right?
Likewise, if you’d enjoy having this centerpiece in your home, you can find it available in my shop HERE
Magic Linen Waffle Blanket ~ $130
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Up next, I will be sharing my first makeover out of this pile o’ goodness. The wood section of the thrift store came to me! haha! See what I first picked to work on HERE.
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What a fun Spring centerpiece! I Love the Vintage Teal color.
Yay! I’m delighted you think so, Sandi. Thank you! I’m so eager to be back outside full-time again.
This is soooo cheery! It really looks like spring!
Hooray! I can only hope it actually comes soon. hee hee!
Great transformation. Come on spring!!
YES! I am soooo ready. 😀
Love how all those pieces came together! Looks like spring is coming your way! I have some shelves that need painting for my kitchen and a spray shelter would work perfectly!
Thanks! We have 5 degrees and snow thus far, but hey…one can hope! 😀
What a Beautiful centerpiece and great touch of Spring. Sure doesn’t feel like Spring here at the moment; it’s in the 20’s here for us in Tx. but up in the 70’s for Sunday. 🙂 Can’t wait for this weather to warm up as I Do Not like the cold.
Thank you for this wonderful giveaway opportunity. I certainly could use a Spray Shelter Tent.
Thanks! I know the feeling. We are at about 5 degrees and still snow. I’m busy as a bee inside, so it’s okay, but I’d love some bare-foot weather.
my hubby had seen that new vintage teal color spray He thought that it was such a pretty color that he brought home me 2 cans home of it this morning. He figured that I would use it on something. 🙂 He knows me pretty well. 🙂
My jaw is dropping because I would pass out if my husband did that for me. Sweet man! 😀
I love seeing all of the wonderful things you do with things that have gotten tired and other people have discarded. Giving new life to furniture and other objects has given me such joy over the years. Now that I am semi-retired and living in a new place, I am looking forward to recapturing that joy again. So many projects where a Spray Shelter Tent would help with the overspray of spraying some of the pieces and would even work with some of the airbrush art I am looking forward to taking up again. Thank you and HomeRight for this opportunity.
You are a kindred spirit, Saundra! 😀 I am excited for you to get back to your passion. You will love these tools as much as I do.
I have several things that need a makeover that the small shelter & turntable would be perfect for painting!! Love this project. So cheerful & fun.
Thanks! Sounds like some DIY fun headed your way. 🙂
Good morning Larissa! Such a cute idea and a fresh look for those old items you started with! Impressive!
Love all the things you do with PAINT! 🙂 . Blessings, Kimberly
I forgot to say: If I win the turntable and shelter I would begin by painting some birdhouses for the backyard.
Aww…love birdhouses for sure! 😀
Good morning!! Thank you so much for those awesome words of encouragement.
I’m not sure what I would try first – but we’ve moving in 2 weeks to our first home. I will have an endless number of projects soon!
Congrats on the new home! So exciting!
I love the outcome!
Thank you so much, Debra! 😀
What a great post and I love primroses. I have your spray tent but now know which turntable to buy. You never cease to teach and amaze me!
They are such a beautiful little flower. You made my day! Thank you.
I love to combine missmatched items into a cohesive grouping, from watching you!
Yay!! That makes it so fun for me. Thank you!
I love those candle sticks!
Thanks! The design on them really is pretty.
Teal is my very fav color! I have a bench that needs a new paint job!
It’s such a happy color in any season.
Such a cute centerpiece that you made from your “thrifted finds”. You are so creative! I would love
receiving the tent and
spinner for my upcoming
projects this spring! Have a blessed day!
Thanks! It sure comes in handy in all seasons.
I have been painting pots and a turn table and shelter would make it so much faster!
Thanks for the chance! I love your DIY spring table decoration.
Oh yes! You will love it for sure. My pleasure!
Hi Larissa! You have done it again. Made something beautiful out of things that were not. I would use my spray shelter every day. I have soo many thrift store pieces that I am trying to make beautiful. I would love to see what you with a box. I have collected silverware boxes and wooden ice pails and i’m not sure where to go.
You are so sweet to me, Cheryl. Thank you! I have recently done a box into a keepsake box a few posts ago. I have two more silverware boxes to do and have a fun idea with the one. Yay!
Love all your projects! This is really a cute way to breathe new life into some things you already had! I’ve been thinking about getting a spray tent…I think it would make life a lot simpler! You really make me want one now! We’ve had nice springlike weather for a few weeks here in Georgia, although it is cooler this week. Supposed to freeze for a few nights. But that spring-y weather…ahhh! Hope it will stick around awhile before the HOTand HUMID days reappear!
It makes decorating so fun and invigorates my cabin fever brain. haha. Thanks! We lived in Georgia for a few years, so I know what you mean (it’s why we came back to Ohio…haha!)
I just love your tutorials AND the teal! Thanks for the chance to win a Homeright shelter plus the turntable. Sure could use them for sure.
Thanks for all you do for ‘us’ out here!
Barbara in TN
Woot, woot!! You are most welcome. Thank YOU for joining me in my fun.
So Pretty! Love it!
Thank you!
Larissa your creativity is amazing, it really shows that you love what you do. I like to collect vintage linens also; doilies, hankies, embroidered or cross stitched pillow cases, table cloths and napkins, love them all.
What makes it more fun is hearing from all of you. Sometimes it can be crickets, especially when I don’t do a giveaway, and I truly love hearing feedback. Thank you!
So fun!! It seems like the wood section of my thrift sore is almost nonexistent these days. Must be lots of your followers in the area 🙂
bahaha! That would be crazy. 😀
Did you finish your living room and kitchen redo? Did I miss it? You have much “vision” for thrift store finds. I love your blog.
Kitchen was done in October, but still building our built-ins for the rest and working on another room too. Yay!
Have outdoor furniture that needs to b repainted .
Very bright and springy!! I can never resist anything with those primroses in it! Aldi had them for 99 cents last year and you can bet I got a cart full! ? Yours are so pretty in your lovely made-over buckets!
I have a bunch of frames I need to throw in a shelter and paint up for my mom’s living room update. And Ooooohhh! That turntable is just the thing for her huge basket-vase that needs to change color. I really need to look up your turntable tutorial and just build one!
Good grief, you wiped out THREE stores wood sections, haha! What a treasure heap! I can’t wait to see what’s next! Thanks!
You sound like me, Becky. They’re such happy blooms! Yes, the whole wood section…crazy! 😀
What a fun makeover! I’d love to have a spray shelter and turntable. Getting even coverage in every nook and cranny is always challenging and they would make it so much easier.
Thanks! They are just one of those super handy tools that makes it all so much easier.
That was so creative! Thanks for the inspiration!
I’m thankful I can share with you, Danelle. Thank you!
That was so creative! I very much enjoy your blog and look forward to your emails every week. A spray shelter would be awesome!
Thank you! 😀
Cute!!
Thanks! 😉
Your project turned out so cute! I don’t have anything exciting to work on at the moment, but I could use the shelter to paint some picture frames right now! Can’t paint outside in the snow, so that’s on hold for me right now 🙂
Thank you! It can be those kind of times I take a breath and get excited about what’s to come.
Another cute up cycle, Keep up the cute updates,
I will try, Kelly. Thank you!
Would love to have the paint shelter so could paint whenever I want. Always enjoy your posts and great projects.
That’s the best part – it pops up anywhere. I’m so glad you enjoy it. Thank you.
I love how you take thrift shop junk and turn it into such beauty!
The first thing I would use the shelter and turn table for is taking neon colored plastic eggs and spraying them cream or robin egg blue. I would then put them in some real nests I have on hand. Maybe I could make a whole spring centerpiece similar to your awesome one!
Woot! That just makes my day, Michele. Thank you so much!
What a perfectly “Springy” and pretty centerpiece you created Larissa! You and your HomeRight tools are a perfect pair for creating no matter the weather! I love the teal color you used too, sooo pretty!
I just needed a boost to get me through the next month or so. Thank you, Kaycee.
Love how creative you are! Would so love the spray shelter to begin transforming things myself!!
Thank you, Deborah. I try to do what I can. You will love it! 😀
I absolutely love the teal you chose! I will be looking for that on my next shopping trip!
Wahoo! It’s one of my favorite sprays. I hope you enjoy it too.
Gee- your centerpiece is sweet. I need to get things together, I probably have everything you used, just need to add the primroses!
tee hee! Sounds like some fun for you, Grace.
So very cute!! I actually have that same little crate from my grandkids toys..need to get it out and add some paint!! Would love to have a paint shelter seeing as I live by the beach and it’s always soooo breezy which makes it hard to spray paint! Love all your creativity!!! You definitely inspire me!!
I knew I wasn’t alone. haha! Thank you for the smile, Carolyn.
I get thrift store wall shelves. I’d paint them in the tent to keep the over spray in and the wind ? and the Oregon rain ☔ out…
I do too…aren’t they fun?!
I love your centerpiece! It is a versatile piece….you could change up the look with different plants, ribbons, candles, jelly beans, etc! It would be such a blessing to win the HomeRight Spray tent. I have so many smaller pieces of furniture, shelves, accessories, etc. that need to be spray painted but I live in an apartment which makes these projects so difficult to spray paint. Thank you for the opportunity to win…?
Yes! That’s the whole idea. Just making fun for our home is half the joy. Thanks for the love, Dale.
So cheerful and springy. Love the makeover. I can’t believe the change in the pails.
It was something I HAD to do. haha. I needed a pep! 😀 Thank you, Debra.
This would be fabulous to use so that I can finally get my grandfathers tables repainted and not get it all over the patio.
Sounds good.
The first thing I would use the shelter for is to liven up some plain wooden crates that I have. Lots of things I want to do with them but not in their boring plain state. Thanks for the chance to win !!
You bet!
SERIOUSLY — how do you see the end results when you’re looking at a pile of unrelated objects?? You continue to AMAZE me!!
aww…you made me giggle, Marti! 😀 Thank you so much.