Dollar Tree Farmhouse DIY Faux Galvanized Tiered Tray | Look for Less Challenge

My friends, welcome to love and the journey of life. I'm Chantal. Thank you very much for tuning into today's video. It's part of the Look for

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I do a lot of DIY. DIY on a budget. Dollar Tree Do that kind of stuff yourself, so I'd love for you to stick around and don't forget to hit the bell and set your notifications so that YouTube will notify you when I upload new videos, so let's not wait any longer, let's jump right into this.

look

for the Less project. I've been

look

ing at a

galvanized

tiered

tray

and found this one online for $50 and knew I could make it for a lot less. I'll be using one of these potting carts from Dollar Tree and it has some small wheels. on the bottom so it rolls and for the top

tray

I'm going to use this cake pan from Dollar Tree.

I will also use a piece of wood dowel that is 12 inches long, this is a 7/8 inch dowel and I bought it at Walmart, it was longer, this is just a piece that I had left over, but you can also use even the handle from one of the Dollar Tree plungers and then I'll use one of these mats to cut out of these 2. -package from Dollar Tree. I'm going to use just one of these shower rings from this package from Dollar Tree and I'm going to use a wooden bead and this is something I had in my stash and I would say it's about an inch in diameter to paint my trays.

I'm going to use a little bit of this aluminum metallic spray paint that I bought at Walmart and I'm going to use a little bit of Waverly's elephant color chalk paint and just a little bit of lighter gray craft paint and it's Not shown here but I'm also going to use black craft paint and for glue I will use e6000 and my hot glue gun. I'm going to cut a circle out of one of the cutting mats to make it fit. the bottom of this potting cart and it turns out that cake pan is the exact size of the inside of that potting cart, so I'm using that as a template.

I'm just going to trace around it with a marker and cut that out with scissors and the reason I'm doing this is because that potting caddy has those indented places and things aren't going to be level on that tray if I don't put something on top of the next ones. . take my dowel and I'm going to measure eight inches and make a mark because I want to cut an eight inch piece and I have a four inch piece left and then using my miter box and my saw, I'm going to cut that dowel where I bookmarked it and will put a link in the description box to this miter box set.

It's very useful for making small crafts like this and I use it a lot, so I'll take some sandpaper and just smooth it out. Take out any rough edges and make sure there are no small splinters. Now I'm going to assemble what will be the top of my pole for this or my handle, so to speak, and this shower curtain ring fits perfectly into the holes in this wooden bead, except the one end sticks out a little at an angle. , so I'm just taking a drill and a drill bit and very carefully making the hole a little larger so that the end of the shower curtain ring sits a little flatter against the bead. and it's not perfect, but it works a little better this way.

So I'm going to take that and I'm going to put some hot glue inside the hole of that bead and insert my ring and you want to work a little faster. here so you can place the bead correctly with the way the ring sits inside that hole, so I'm going to take some e6000 and put it on top of the four inch peg and place the bead on top of that and then I will do. Take my hot glue gun and very carefully and neatly run some hot glue around the base of that bead to help it stay in place while the East 6000 dries.

I'm going to take that potting cart and cover it. I'll cover those wheels with some painter's tape so that when I spray the paint the paint won't cause the wheels to get stuck. Then I'll take my metallic aluminum spray paint and spray it all over the background and everything. this around the sides of the potting cart, next I'm going to insert that piece that I cut out of the chopping mat and I'm marking right where the center is because I want to know where that center post is going to be so I can trim that out and actually I will glue my pole to the tray;

It's sulfur in the center of the car, but I'm using some e6000 and some hot glue to glue that bottom insert on and then I'll spray paint the whole thing. inside and you can see here that I'm holding that post in the center because I still want to be able to see where I marked when I go to cut it out and then make sure it has a good coat of spray paint. Once my spray paint has dried, I'm going to use the elephant chalk paint and also the lighter gray craft paint and I'm going to use this kind of old fluffy brush that I have and just attack all of these colors. over the two trays and I'll start with the darker color, then go over it with a little bit of the lighter color and then back and forth a couple of times alternating just filling in and giving it kind of a

galvanized

metal like speckled look, If you saw my trash to treasure video that I did a while ago where I transform those wall pockets from some sort of green painted metal to galvanized metal, this is the same technique I used on Those and I'll also put the link to that video in the description box if you want to see it so you can see here that I'm taking a little bit of paint off the brush before I put it on. the trays I want to have a really random pattern so I just twist and turn my brush as I point it there and give it a really random look and don't worry because at first it doesn't look like that.

It's going to look like galvanized metal, it looks really a little messy, but once you start layering different colors, it really starts to develop that galvanized metal look and gives it more dimension, so after applying the dark layer, I'm going Just take the light colored paint and do the exact same thing throughout the project. A couple of things to keep in mind here. I didn't worry about making the bottom of the bottom tray and also in the center spot in the middle. inside the tray where we mark where the post will go. I didn't paint over it because I still needed to see that mark where I need to cut that hole in the cake pan that I'm measuring to find the center. on the inside of the pan I'm going to mark that because I don't want to paint right in the center so my post will stick better when I stick it to the center of this cake pan, so I'm going to use the same painting technique that I used on the potting cart which will be the bottom tray and I'm going to paint both the inside and outside of this cake pan.

Next, I'm going to use some Waverly chalk paint in the ink color that I can use any black craft paint for this and I'm going to paint my pegs and the little ring on the top of the other peg and I didn't see it all in the video, but I'm just going to paint it all black except for the ends where I'm going to glue it on now I'm going to take an Exacta knife and very carefully cut out that circle where I traced around the dowel on that plastic cutting mat. Now remember this is a cutting mat and so it's a little hard to cut, which is good if you're using it as a cutting mat, but I had to go around it probably five or six times, pushing pretty hard to cut this circle. . but I just want to do this slowly and carefully so as not to cut you.

I also sprayed my pieces with this clear matte sealant and when I sprayed the pegs I didn't spray the ends so they would be free of that when I glued them on. to the trays which is the next and final step so I'm going to put a little bit of e6000 in the center and then I'm going to add a little bit of hot glue so that will make the dowel stand up and hold it while e6000 dries for a stronger bond and you have to hold them for a while and then I will also do the same on the top tray.

I'll put that shorter dowel with the little ring in the center of that cake. mold and also with six mil and a little bit of hot glue and then I'm going to put a little bit of e6000 and again a little bit more hot glue on the top of the dowel that's on the pot cart and I'm going to place my cake pan on this one and When you do this, you want to make sure it's centered and look at it from the side to make sure the pegs are lined up so it looks like it goes all the way, so here's the finished tray.

I love how it looks. It's not as sturdy as the $50 one probably would be and if you put something heavy on top it wobbles a little if you try to move it, but if it's just sitting on a table it looks great and saved me a lot. money to do it myself, the original one I saw online was $50, this one cost me six

dollar

s plus my paint and I love how it looks with spring decor but I can use it for any season so I'm really excited about it. I hope you enjoyed this video, if you did please like if you haven't subscribed yet, make sure to hit the subscribe button and don't forget to check the playlist for the latest challenge found in the description box.

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