Customized Nesting Tray
I love nesting trays. I do not have a lot of room for them in my home, but I have been wanting to add a few to help corral clutter. So I started hunting. I knew the look, the size and the price I wanted to pay - then I came to the hard part - finding my ideal. Every store I went into, I searched them out. They were either the wrong size, the wrong colours/designs or just way too expensive. So, after quite a few disappointments, I decided to try my hand at making my own. Well, not making my own (how handy do you think I am??), just customising one to my specifications.
I purchased unfinished nesting trays here. They come in a set of three (large-medium-small), which allowed me to test out (otherwise known as - make my mistakes) what I wanted to do with the smallest one, then perfect it in the other two.
I also got two pieces of scrapbook paper from the same place.
I first started out priming the entire tray. It took two coats.
After the primer dried, I then painted the whole tray. I used this. It is the sample size, which was a great size for small projects, leaving me enough for touch-ups if needed later. This tray took two coats.
Once the paint dried, I cut down to size the scrapbooking paper. I sprayed adhesive on the back of the paper and fit it into the tray. I then let that dry for a bit.
The next day, my final step was painting the whole tray (twice) with the above pictured product to seal it.
I love my new nesting tray! It turned out being exactly what I had spent too much time searching for.
The whole project took about three days to complete. Most of that time was spent allowing whatever product I had just used on the tray to dry. The total bill for customizing this tray added up to be under $25 (and that cost included two extra trays). Fun and inexpensive....JCMT
I purchased unfinished nesting trays here. They come in a set of three (large-medium-small), which allowed me to test out (otherwise known as - make my mistakes) what I wanted to do with the smallest one, then perfect it in the other two.
I also got two pieces of scrapbook paper from the same place.
I first started out priming the entire tray. It took two coats.
After the primer dried, I then painted the whole tray. I used this. It is the sample size, which was a great size for small projects, leaving me enough for touch-ups if needed later. This tray took two coats.
Once the paint dried, I cut down to size the scrapbooking paper. I sprayed adhesive on the back of the paper and fit it into the tray. I then let that dry for a bit.
The next day, my final step was painting the whole tray (twice) with the above pictured product to seal it.
I love my new nesting tray! It turned out being exactly what I had spent too much time searching for.
The whole project took about three days to complete. Most of that time was spent allowing whatever product I had just used on the tray to dry. The total bill for customizing this tray added up to be under $25 (and that cost included two extra trays). Fun and inexpensive....JCMT
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