Name: PASTEL THRIFT FLIP!!! UPCYCLING THRIFTED ITEMS | THRIFTMAS DAY 5
Uploaded: 2025-05-23T09:20:29.000Z
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Today I'm going to be showing you how I turned this into this!

Guys, what I'm about to show you requires like absolutely zero skill whatsoever.

I have this little bucket here and this is all I'm going to be using.

It just takes a little bit of imagination and a big love of pastel colors.

So if you watched day one of Thriftmas then you'll know that I picked up all of these things from 12 different thrift stores over the course of two days.

My plan for these things is to turn them from old and grab into pastel and fab and I'm going to do that by using spray paint.

That's that's literally it, it's just spray paint.

So I started off my experimentation with this clear glass vessel which I spray painted a chalky dusty pink.

I didn't even use a white layer underneath it, I just sprayed the pink spray paint directly onto the clear glass and it turned out fantastic.

Experiment two was this vase which was a sort of greenish colored glass and green cast iron.

I spray painted this one with a lighter pink and I really like this shade a lot more than I like the darker shade but for the sake of this video I think it's quite nice to have some contrast between my shades of pink.

So in my bucket over here I have three shades of pink spray paint today and two shades of blue.

I was very happy with how the gold turned out when I spray painted the cast iron.

It it looks incredible, it's got this really nice metallic finish to it.

So let's just have a quick look at the things I'm going to be flipping today and then I'll show you the tools that I'm going to be using.

This was $10 and my plan for it is to turn the bottom where it's silver, I want to make that part gold, and I want to make the rest pink.

This thing which is a stationary tray, this was only four dollars.

Again, color scheme pink and gold, fairly simple.

You guys might remember I was contemplating whether or not I should leave these clear or if I should spray them and after looking on the bottom of them I see they are from Ikea so I think I'm definitely going to spray these.

Haven't made up mind exactly about the color yet but we'll decide soon.

Tray number one, potentially to become gold.

Tray number three, I have a very interesting plan with this that involves three layers of different colored spray paint and a lot of detergent.

This little guy, you know what Marie Kondo says, does it bring you joy?

At the moment this in its yellow form does bring me joy but I believe if I spray it matte pink it will indeed make me very very happy.

Either pink or white or blue or maybe all three, yet to decide.

I think I may actually have to go to Bunnings and pick up some special pastel felt markers that I saw because I think I might just do some very fine little details on this to like retro artwork.

This little guy was only two dollars and he is about to go from a dark blue to a lighter blue.

This little guy was only one dollar and I haven't decided exactly what color yet but probably pink and gold.

Once again I'm yet to decide exactly what I'm doing with it.

I actually don't even know if I'm going to be able to take this apart easily.

I thought I'd just be able to unscrew all of the elements of it and just spray them individually but I don't know if this comes apart so I may have a little bit of a challenge ahead of myself with this one.

And last but not least is this timber set of drawers.

There's three drawers, it needs new knobs, it needs to be painted white.

So the tools I'm going to be using today.

This is only a couple of dollars from Ikea.

I've got painter's tape obviously to help me tape off any sections that I don't want sprayed.

I have a little timber block and sandpaper.

This is going to help me sand back a set of drawers for example.

The most important tools of the day, the pastel spray paint.

So this one is dual lux duramax chalky finish.

I used this one for the large pink vase that was my very first experiment and I was really really happy with it.

This is called a matte enamel and I don't really know what shade it is because it doesn't actually have a shade written on it anywhere but it's essentially like a dusty kind of pink.

Now I've never used this one before so I don't know what the color is going to turn out like but if it's anything like the color on the lid I think it's going to be lovely.

I have another dual lux duramax chalky finish.

Now I thought that this was going to be really really nice when I saw it based on the lid.

So I sprayed this little thing which is just like a white sort of stationary cup that I got from Ikea and I really don't like the color.

It's not a pastel blue or a duck egg blue.

It's a really dirty blue so I kind of hate it.

Now on the picture on the spray can here they actually have a little set of drawers that they've sprayed with this color and it looks quite nice.

I hope that this color is going to be as pretty as it is on the lid because if it's too dark I'm not going to end up with anything blue in today's video.

I also have this dual lux duramax bright finish.

This is gold and this is an an excellent gold.

It looks just like it does on the lid and of course I've got rustoleum two times ultra cover flat white primer.

The last couple of things I have are some different handles that I got from Bunnings.

These are a gold pull style handle that I thought I could use on the set of drawers.

Now I haven't decided yet which ones that I'm going to use because it'll come down to whether or not I go white or I go blue on the set of drawers.

If the set of drawers are blue I think they'll look really nice with the gold handles but if they end up white I think they'll look nice with the crystal handles.

It's going white regardless because the white is going to be the base.

If I'm going to be using the blue it needs to be white underneath anyway so I'll get to see what these look like white and then I can make the final call whether or not I want to turn them blue or keep them white and then that'll decide which knobs that I use.

So that's it that's everything that you need to know before we start and with that I've called in some backup to help me get this done so let's get to it.

Oh I picked a terrible day to do this it's so hot.

Some of you are familiar with Caitlin some of you have you know made her acquaintance but others for those of you that have not this is Caitlin.

She has a broken leg and while we sit here and DIY some things she's going to tell us a story because the people want to know because it's not every day someone breaks their leg and I've seen a lot of comments like so what's the story because like people don't just spontaneously break their leg there's got to be some story to it.

I went on a first date with someone and I was like you know what it would be sweet and cute great idea for us to go like ice skating on the first date there's one down the road it'll be cute and what could go wrong I've never done it before.

I fell of course and uh broke it and I haven't walked for three months.

I rang my mum because I was like ah my foot hurts and I literally had to describe to her I'm like hey I went on a first date I didn't tell you because I was kind of embarrassed.

No she just rocked up and I was like take me home or take me to the hospital I'm I'm wounded myself.

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