Cabinet Door Turned Welcome Sign...

Our neighborhood always has fun things waiting to be given a new lease on life...

so imagine my excitement when we found this:

I loved the details on the door and it was just the perfect size. I decided almost instantly that it needed to be the welcome sign in our garage.

So I took this...

and painted it on the middle slats... I taped off the edges but decided later it didn't really matter- I was going for the messy look :)

It took me FOREVER to figure out what colors I wanted to do it in... which is why the poor thing sat around for a few days while I decided. I finally decided to go outside my comfort zone a little and make it fun and bright... so...

it turned red...

While that layer dried, I went to work on making some fun flowers for the corner. I wanted to liven it up some.

Then I painted a layer of crackle paint on the door and painted a top coat of a beautiful shade of blue

(it looks darker online...)

Isn't it lookin' perty??

I decided it still needed a little something so I grabbed these...

and made this...

It's hard to tell on the carpet, but it's just a simple piece of burlap that I frayed at the bottom. I took a bunch of random chipboard letters I had and painted them various colors then hotglued them on the burlap.

The 'o' is two buttons layered on top of each other :)

I attached my burlap sign with twine and hotglued the twine to the back of the door.

What do you think??!!??

I had so much fun and LOVE how it turned out!!

You can't get much better than free! And with all my supplies being things I had on hand... I was a happy camper!

Here's the before and after just to let you see what a transformation it went through:

The person who threw this away had no idea what a treasure they had! Itsn't that a shame?

I can't cry though... it was perfect for making my garage a happier place :)

I'm entering this into the CSI project 'paint' challenge: