Thrift Store Flower Makeover

I am always in the thrift stores looking for things to breathe new life into. I love taking something old and otherwise no good and turning into something amazing and useful again. On one of my thrift store treasure hunts I ran across this beat up gold flower plaque, it was far from pretty. It was in fact pretty ugly ha-ha! Well it was only $1, and I thought maybe I can breathe some new life into it and that is exactly what I did!! This came out so cute, I am going to gift it to my niece for her bedroom. Come see this thrift store flower makeover!

There she is, as gold as ever! It needed something. Turns out not a whole lot, literally just some paint, that’s it! I grabbed a pink, green and off white and got to work!

First step, lose the gold. This is where I took the off white paint and gave it two nice coats. It already looks sooo much better with just the white paint.

Second step, I dry brushed my pink paint all over just the roses. You don’t need a lot of paint but just enough to give it color. On parts I felt I got darker than I wanted I added a little white back over it. I played around back and forth between white and the pink just getting the exact look I wanted. It came out so perfect! It already is looking so nice!

Step 3, I repeated the same process with green on the leaves. This pulled the whole thing together and finished it! I wanted to keep it simple and easy. That was super easy! It came out beautiful. I’ll be sealing it with a spray matte sealer as I don’t want a glossy finish.

Totally love how this turned out, so pretty and simple. It is WAY better than the gold it was. It truly is amazing what paint and a few minutes of time can do! This whole think did not take long, maybe 30 mins, not including drying time of course.