Making New with Old- Trash to Treasure!

I am trying to make a dent in all the projects that I have plans for and last Sunday I thought I would try to get some spray painting done.

This beautifully shaped mirror was a yard sale find. It started out as a faux gold leaf. I had a particular idea in mind. First a thick coat of purple!

Because blue painters tape isn't supposed to stick to other paint but usually does, I had to do a couple of test runs on how to get straight lines since I wasn't going to push the tape down with a firm edge. So first I taped up the mirror face and edges. Then decided how thick to place the stripes and how to get the lines to stay clean.

 The trick was all in the angle of the spray.

I call this my Beetlejuice Mirror. It is going to be my dressing table mirror. I am quite happy with how it turned out.

Here it is hung in place on my dressing table. Jeff hung it up for me today.

Next, I have had this 4 panel hand carved wood screen for over 20 years. I actually found this standing next to trash cans on trash day on the way home from dropping my kids off at school. Someone had thrown it away! Trash to Treasure!

In all the years I have had it it has been used as a headboard, room divider, wall decor and more. It was always missing some panels at its top, and has just one hole in it. But it is still very pretty.

I decided to give it a coat of paint and it is going to become our headboard. I wanted it to fit in with our black, white, purple and Grey color scheme so I painted the panels alternating black and purple.

This screen is very heavy, much heavier than it looks.

The wood was very dry so it took a lot of paint to cover but it turned out nice. Here is a close up of the detail. Beautiful work!

Here it is in place as the headboard. The doll shelf I painted is just above it awaiting dolls!