Paint Designs For My Metal Tool Chest

Is there anything more fun than turning something tired and forgotten into something new and beautiful?? Amazing friends, welcome to Trash-to-Treasure Tuesday!!

This is one of my favorite days of the month! Not only do I have a pretty makeover for ya'll, so do four of my favorite blogger friends! Be sure to look for their projects at the bottom.

Here is what I am giving new life to this month:

Fancy, no?

Other than being quite faded, this metal tool box was in really great shape. So for $7, I threw it in my cart and dragged it home.

And with the magic of paint, it is fancier than it ever thought it could be!

Metal tool box turned nail kit.

Fancy, no??

metal tool box makeover

You knew it would be painted, and you know I love me some stripes, but you probably didn't expect the gold, right?

I thought that would make it just a bit more, you know, fancy! 🙂

I started by spray painting the front latch and the handle with this gold spray paint. I also spray painted the inside gold as well, and I'll share that in just a bit.

Then I painted the rest in Behr's Bit of Sugar made into chalk paint. (Recipe with video HERE.) I used a smaller than normal brush so I could cut in more easily around the gold parts. Then I used my favorite FrogTape for delicate surfaces to tape off the stripes.

I painted the black with this acrylic craft paint.

Metal tool box makeover

I sealed it using this spray matte sealer.

I thought it needed something on the top and that cute tag was just the thing!

Remember these two pieces of scraps I used to help guide my mother-of-pearl tile through the tile saw:

(See more of my beautiful tile in this post HERE.)

One of them became this tag. I just chopped it into shape with my miter saw:

Then I drilled a hole for the ribbon.

I painted it with the same black acrylic craft paint, and added the words using a "stencil" I made with my Silhouette Cameo. I used white spray paint to fill in the letters: