DIY Dollar Store Hanging Flower Basket

DIY Dollar Store Hanging Flower Basket

Let’s create a sweet hanging basket for spring using a thrift store basket and a few floral picks from the Dollar store!

Hello, sweet friends!

If you follow along you’ll probably remember a month or so ago I said that I wanted to do something different to decorate our front door for spring this year.

Adding something new and pretty to our front door is where I always start whenever the seasons change.

Unfortunately, I had some trouble executing my original plan to add some spring to our front door.

Initially, my plan involved filling a simple straw tote or bag with spring blooms and calling it a day.

But finding a simple straw tote/bag that was the right size and fit my budget…well, that was a bit more difficult than I’d thought it would be.

I guess straw totes and bags aren’t ‘in’ because I could only find a handful online and they were all way too big and gaudy. I even looked in the little girl’s accessories and in several thrift stores and came up empty-handed.

So…I finally gave up and settled for a hanging basket instead.

Finding one of those at our local thrift store wasn’t so hard but of course, it would definitely need a wee bit of tweaking before it ended up on our front door.

To start, I found this lovely gray-washed vintage basket and used it as my inspiration for how I wanted my basket to look.

how to add a gray wash vintage look to a basket:

Material needed:

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• Gray Paint ( I used Apple Barrel Pewter Gray & Country Grey)
• White Paint ( I used Waverly Ivory Chalk Paint)
• Chip Brush
• Sponge Brush
• Detail Brush
• Plastic bowl ( to put paint in)
• Water (for diluting paint)

getting the look:

1. Add the base coat. I gave my basket one coat of the pewter gray using a sponge brush. Then I let it dry for 15 minutes. TIP: It’s not really important at this time to get into all the cracks and crevices with the base coat. You’ll be adding additional coats that will do that.
2. Add another layer of color by covering the bare spots on the basket with the lighter gray (country gray) using a detail brush to blend.
3. Dry brush another layer using a chip brush and ivory chalk paint.

Once I had finished dry brushing the ivory on the basket, I let it dry for about 10 minutes. But after it had dried I felt like the basket was more white-washed than gray so I blended a bit more with my dry brush and added some more of the light gray paint that I diluted with some water.

The end result was EXACTLY how I had imagined it. And I absolutely LOVE how it looks against our black door!

Once I had the look for the basket I wanted, it was time to FILL it!

I started by adding one of my favorites- Lambs Ear!   I truly love the dusky gray-green vintage look of this bush and it pairs so well I think with pink!

Speaking of PINK! I added PLENTY of pinks. Starting with those gorgeous roses!  Can you believe I found those at the Dollar Tree??!!! My store didn’t have a lot left so they must be popular. If yours is out I also found some inexpensive pretty pink roses here and here. Each stem of my Dollar Tree roses had about 4-5 flowers so I only needed to use two full stems since my basket is narrow. Then I tucked in a few single stems here and there.

The next flower I chose was some cherry blossoms I had in my flower supply. I just love their whimsical and dainty petals and they too have a wee bit of vintage charm.

Then I filled in the remaining holes with a few more stems I bought at the Dollar Tree and some Eucalyptus I had on hand.

This sweet little vintage basket of flowers came together in less than 10 minutes and here’s the breakdown of the total cost.

• Basket- $2
• Pink Roses- $2.50
• Other Dollar tree stems $2.50
• Cherry Blossoms (I had)
• Lambs Ear (I had)
• Eucalyptus (I had)

That’s a total of $7! And my inspiration basket alone cost $30!

Now that’s a bargain! Am I right?!

I ended up liking my sweet basket of blooms so much that I’m not even sad that I didn’t find a straw tote anymore!

It was just meant to be I guess!

I hope you enjoyed today’s budget-friendly DIY!

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