It's Kitchen & Bath month on AT. These are typically big investment rooms, so as renters we rely on accessories to spice up our kitchens and bath. Inspired by a pepper mill from Anthropologie, Rachel from Heart of Light decided to give her kitchen some ooomph by sprucing up this sad salt and pepper set she found at a thrift store for $2.
Rachel decided to spray paint both shakers an electric blue. Before priming, she used a combination of painter's tape, cotton and pins to keep paint from seeping into the shaker. She used a high gloss spray paint.
And the final result!
Rachel's Anthropologie inspiration is on sale for $12.95, but we actually prefer her DIY version.
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Comments (15)
so cute!
I love it! Now to find the shakers...
Wow - Now they look like they're made of moulded plastic instead of some drab old block of carved teak or walnut...
This is hilarious, I think this is DIY gone wild.
I like the worn wood better.
My parent's had those shakers -- must confess it was a shock to see the "end result"!
wow, that looks really awesome. kudos!
If I did this, I wouldn't be able to use them again - too big a chance you could get something toxic in with the seasonings.
I thought some thoughts are here are silly, but this is insane.
cool... i like it
I'd say that breathing the air in LA or riding the subway in NYC is more hazardous to one's health than these shakers. Love it!
Not all of us live in LA or in NYC, MJR. Honestly I don't think anyone I know would use these shakers after this had been done. They were actually pretty before. I guess I don't understand ruining something perfectly normal.
For $12.95 I'd rather purchase a finished non-toxic version instead.
Cute, but I'm not sure how much money you save after buying the original shakers, painters' tape and spray paint.
Some grinders are not made of high quality, beautiful wood. (I have--well HAD pre-divorce-- one that is and would never spray paint it) These could have been cheap wood with a cheap shellac, not something to cherish. I've got one of those (a hand-me-down) now.
And I don't see how spray painting the OUTSIDE of a pepper grinder is going to poison her. Is skin contact with a painted item now verboten?
Folks paint ordinary stuff all the time. I'm not sure why all the objections to this project.
There's no way to be absolutely sure some of the paint didn't get into the inside while you were painting them...and to that extent, then paint ends up in your food. Or paint could chip off into your food - paint isn't forever. The fumes around paint were never meant to be that close to food - LOL - and I seriously doubt if someone from a health department came into this discussion that they'd defend painting them.
Just wanted to say that I did this (found the *exact* same ones), and I LOVE them, and get compliments on them all the time. It's a GREAT project!