Farmhouse style tiered trays are all the decorating rage these days. You can find them in various styles and colors with 2, 3 and 4 tiers. If you check out home decor stores you’ll see that these farmhouse trays can be quite expensive, definitely MORE than I’m willing to pay. After seeing them and wanting one…I decided to make my own.
Here’s your shopping list.
Dollar Tree – 1 metal pizza pan, 2 metal pie pans, 2 clear glass candlestick holders
Hobby Lobby – 1 cabinet knob, unfinished wood beads
Lowe’s – white spray paint (2 cans), spray acrylic sealer (1 can), Gorilla Glue
You’ll need to work on this project on a day that you can get outside due to all of the spray painting.
Take the pizza pan, pie pans, glass candlesticks, cabinet knob, and all of the round wood beads outside and lay them down on a drop cloth. Spray with a coat of white spray paint. I used one with a matte finish. Once dry, turn the items over and spray again. You’ll continue this process until everything has been painted and dry.
Inside you’ll want to assemble it. HOT GLUE doesn’t work well for this type of project! You want to use Gorilla Glue or E6000. I used Gorilla Glue. Place one candlestick in the center of the pizza pan, then a pie pan on top. Then another candlestick with another pie pan on top. Use the Gorilla Glue to adhere everything together. In the center of the top pan you’ll add the cabinet knob which gives it a nice finishing touch. Let everything dry until the glue has set.
Next you’ll add all of the painted wooden beads around the edge of the pizza pan. I used a dab of hot glue and my glue gun to just set them in place. I then went back and added a little bit of Gorilla Glue to really hold them down firmly into place by squirting my dabs along the inside edge of the pan. Let dry overnight.
I used the dry brush technique using black acrylic paint and went around the edges of the pans to give them a little bit of a distressed look. I didn’t go heavy on it as I didn’t want them to look all beaten up. You can do more or less of the distressing. Let dry.
Head outside and place the tiered farmhouse tray onto a drop cloth. Spray all sides and the bottom with 2 coats of a clear acrylic spray sealer. I used one with a matte finish. Allow for 1 hour of drying time between coats. This will protect the painted finish from chips and scratches.
Variations: If you like a “weathered” look you can take some sandpaper to it to rough it up or take black or dark charcoal colored paint to add the “roughness” accents. That’s entirely up to you.
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Once again you used your creativity to make something out of regular items. It does fit in perfectly with your coastal theme.
Wow this is so pretty and goes perfect with your coastal theme. I would love to make this craft project thanks for sharing.
I can see you going around dollar tree picking this up and that………. and holding this way or stack them that way. It is so much fun to create something you wanted or something just right out of your mind. For years most of yard art came from lowes…….. a little of this and that and some of that a little glue.
Love the way you mind works