Vase Refresh for Dining Room–ORC Week 3

It’s been three weeks now into the one room challenge and I’ve made a lot of progress. This week I’m going to share with you a vase refresh I plan to use as a corner decoration in my dining room.

This bamboo vase I bought from my neighbor for $5 when she was changing her decor. I used it for a couple years because, as you remember, my house used to feature red accents. But now that I’m removing the red, I figured I would take some time to spray paint and transform this vase instead of going out to buy a new one. The can of spray paint cost me $3.87 and a large vase would’ve cost more than $20.

First I spray painted the vase glossy white and let it dry a full day. While I was out with my white spray paint, I also came at the baseboard heat registers for the newly painted white trim. If you can’t tell, my favorite spray paint (by far!) is Rust Oleum 2x Ultra Cover paint and primer.

Then I taped off lines with green FrogTape and newspaper.

I really did this wrong because I should’ve painted the silver first, then just taped off lines and painted the white. Nonetheless, I sprayed on silver to add an interesting design to the vase. To learn how to spray paint well (even in below freezing temps!) read this article.

The finished product turned out really nice. Unfortunately, at one point wind knocked the vase over and the top cracked. Hopefully that’s not too noticeable because I love this vase refresh and I still want to work with it.

The Finished Vase Refresh

I like this little bit of greenery in my dining room. It livens up the corner nicely.

My paint lines didn’t turn out completely straight on such a curved surface, but you can’t really tell. I think the vase refresh was a success!

At this point, let’s review the kitchen makeover checklist.

• Paint walls
• Paint baseboard trim white
• Place interesting decor in dining room corner
• Paint light switch & outlet covers white
• Purchase curtains for dining room window
• Paint fabric curtains with a modern design
• Perhaps buy a dining room rug
• Plan a task that doesn’t start with “P”

I also crossed off buy a dining room rug because I decided against it. Thank you for your advice on my initial ORC post! Check out the previous two posts about my kitchen makeover:

Kitchen makeover BEFORE–ORC WEEK 1
Paint wood trim white VIDEO tutorial–ORC WEEK 2

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