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Jessica Hill

Two-tiered Kitchen Tray

I never really knew what kind of decor person I'd be, but I guess buying our first house this year has really opened my eyes to the world of decor. I've fallen into the trendy Farmhouse style decor and can't get enough! But, unfortunately, my wallet can get enough, and has had enough....which has brought me to the world of DIY decor. I thought I'd start this blog for anyone else out there who wants to follow the trends of decor but maybe can't because they don't want to break the bank!


We bought this house about 5 months ago, and, after moving in all our stuff, I realized that we have A LOT more space to decorate with than we ever did in our little one bedroom apartments in Provo, UT and San Antonio, TX. I feel like a house isn't really a home without something on the walls or on the counter tops, so, I started looking at decor from lots of different stores! I quickly realized that I couldn't have the style I wanted for our house right away because, I mean, the down payment for our house took a lot of our savings....haha. I didn't have as much money to spend as I wanted or needed (insert sarcastic voice here) on decor.


Enter the do-it-yourself mantra.


I feel like I've seen two or three-tiered trays EVERYWHERE. I think they're adorable. Plus, having a two-tiered tray in the house gives me even more space to cram little decorative trinkets without having to spread it all over the counter top. When I started to look for these trays I was sad to see the price was from around $20-$60. Now, you might be thinking that $20 isn't too bad for a tray. It really isn't, I guess. But I wanted the tray and then all the trinkets to put on the tray and that's when it really started adding up. So, I decided to make the tray myself and then use some money to buy little decorative trinkets. If you can buy the tray and everything to decorate it with, kudos to you. If you can buy the tray but are creative enough to DIY the trinkets, then also kudos to you! To each their own! I'm a momma of a young baby though and would rather DIY one "bigger" item and then buy all the little stuff than buy a bigger item and DIY a bunch of little items for decor. I think it would take up a little more of my snuggling time with my baby. Plus I don't want little decor items from the floor to wind up in baby girl's mouth because, let's be honest, sometimes after a DIY project I'm a little too worn out to clean up the aftermath immediately. Anyway, let's get to the project!



There are a couple ways to do this and you can completely make it your own. For instance, I only did a two-tiered tray, but if you want to do a three-tiered tray you totally can! You'll just have to find different-sized items for each level of the tray. This tray down below ended up costing me about $5 to make. I went to my local Dollar Tree (trust me, I'm not sponsored by them but all my DIY projects start there) and bought their metal pizza pan, a metal cake tin, and a long thin glass candlestick holder. I already had Tacky Glue and white paint at home but I bought the royal blue acrylic paint at the Dollar Tree for the accented rim. I literally sat down and slathered the candlestick holder, cake tin, and pizza pan in the white paint and waited for it to dry. I think I only did two coats on it but you can do as many as you want to make it more opaque or just do one to make it more translucent. Doing 2 coats made the color pretty solid but there's still some swirls and feathering in places that allows the metal color to show through. I like it that way because it makes it look more distressed or antique but that's not everyone's style. After everything was dry I took some of the royal blue paint, put it on a paintbrush and then circled the entire cake tin and pizza pan, giving it the enamel style look. You can do an accent in any color, I know black is traditionally whats done but as you can see in the picture, our kitchen is basically white, silver/gray and black so I wanted a little extra color. When everything was dry I put a little Tacky Glue in the center of the pizza pan and set the candlestick holder on top and allowed it to dry. Before doing the gluing I went back and forth about which end I wanted up or down with the candlestick and after texting my husband pictures of how it looked both ways we decided we liked it with the thicker part of the candlestick holder down (Or maybe I decided....I can't remember but I don't think my husband really cared) but you decide what you like! I'm sure there are different styles of candlestick holders at the Dollar Tree now so you may have more choices! Once the candlestick holder was dry, I put more Tacky Glue on top of the candlestick holder and set the painted cake tin on top. I let it dry for about 24 hours just to be safe and then started decorating with little trinkets!


I'm one of those crazy people that starts decorating for Fall in August so here's what it looks like right now but it's adorable during any season and I love switching out the decor!


The orange and white cup and the frames for the pictures are from Dollar Tree as well! The prints in both frames were free printables that I found online, I can't remember where..and the rest of the decor was from Hobby Lobby during a 40% off all Fall decor sale! I think in total I spent about $15 on this set up, including the two-tiered tray and I love it; I hope you do too!


Recap:

Things you'll need:

1 Dollar Tree Cake Tin

1 Dollar Tree pizza pan

1 Dollar Tree candlestick holder

white acrylic paint

accent color acrylic paint (I used royal blue from Dollar Tree)

Tacky Glue

foam paintbrush



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