I'd been after an old fashioned, metal wastepaper bin for years but stepped up the hunt after lusting over some gorgeous examples on American blogs over recent months. I couldn't find one anywhere and the ones I did find were coming out at around £55 when I factored in postage, totally out of my budget. Well, whaddya know? Yesterday I found one in a local charity shop for £1. I carried that bloody bin home with my food shopping and umbrella stuffed inside. Turns out everyone in Didsbury saw it as a sartorial choice rather than my bid to save the world from yet another plastic bag. I swear I'm now known as bin lady to the locals.
Anyway, something is telling me it needs a little cosmetic help. Something is telling me to spray paint it with some red gloss spray paint that I have sitting around doing nada but something else, back there in the deepest depths of my mind, is telling me to put the spray can down, step away from the bin and just let it damn well be.
What say ye my little thriftsters? To spray or not to spray?
TTFN,
P.S.Have you got any makeover projects coming up?
I say spray.
ReplyDeleteI have a bright blue bin like that. I am most certainly keeping it blue - indeed I am turning loads of other stuff blue with spray paint soon. Mwahahaha! Matching. Through spray fun.
Not to spray!
ReplyDeleteIt looks so calm ad utilitarian-in-a-good-wayin its current state.
I say spray! I used that red to spray some bathroom shelf thingies (sorry, dunno what else to call them) and I'm glad I did!
ReplyDeleteOooh SPRAY!!! It'll look amazing!
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Oooh SPRAY!!! It'll look amazing!
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Leave.
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I say spray away! A shiny red bin would look splendid in any office space!
ReplyDeleteI have a pink one [also £1] It used to be in my sewing room, but got mioved, as I kept finding small bits and threads and things fell through the holes. Now in the lounge, and totally the wrong colour. Maybe I shall spray it!
ReplyDeletered or blue?...
blessings x
how are you going to spray paint a holey bin without getting spray paint everywhere else?
ReplyDeleteSpray, spray, spray!
ReplyDeleteI say spray it, especially if the spray is just sitting around doing nothing.
ReplyDeleteNo point wasting the stuff when it can be used to make something look pretty :D
Step away from the spray can I reckon - looks fab the way it is!
ReplyDeleteWhy don't you stay sitting on the wall and spray half of it! :D
ReplyDeleteRIP Woolies - they used to sell these in pretty colours for 99p a pop! They did tend to go a bit rusty/dented after a couple of years though... So I'm with the sprayers!
ReplyDeleteI think it will be a bitch to spray - so step away I say!
ReplyDeletespray away! I had a silver one from somewhere, and it did indeed go rusty after a while so I reckon paint it, even if it will be difficult to do!
ReplyDeleteI say no spray. It looks great as it is. x
ReplyDeleteI say spray.....bit to "office" looking for me as it is.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely spray! I'm a newly converted spray paint addict :)
ReplyDeleteHi, I say don't spray, I like it in its original condition.
ReplyDeleteI like it the way it is. If it were my bin I'd leave it as is. As you have the paint you could always do it later. I got my bin out of a skip! I was very happy, even if it did mean climbing into the skip next to a busy road at lunchtime!
ReplyDeleteLeave it as it is I say, it looks like a classic to me.
ReplyDeleteSPRAY GIRL SPRAY!!
ReplyDeleteIt looks to....institutional. Needs some personality to cheer it up.
I say not to spray....line it with some funky fabric instead. That way you can make more than one liner and ring the changes! I do so love the utilitarian look.x
ReplyDeleteconsidering I normally paint anything I get my paws on, I'm going to say leave it. It looks really nice as it is.
ReplyDeletehave a glorious weekend Thrifty one.
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I would only spray it if it was with glitter spray paint! :)
ReplyDeleteSorcha x
Bonfire Brunette
Don't spray, for a utilitarian look. Spray something else red to use the can.
ReplyDeleteI like it as it it - it's clean and simple. Love it! :-)
ReplyDeleteDefinitely spray it - red will be hot hot hot
ReplyDeleteI go with lining it. I had one and finally gave it away.
ReplyDeleteSpray! If you don't like it, you can always spray it back to its original colour. I have three that I have sprayed...... (I probably just like inhaling the fumes ;O))
ReplyDeleteI'd spray it,cos red's my favourite colour...or rather I'd get my OH to do it,as I'm a messy pup. :0)
ReplyDeleteIf it fits into your room better red spray it, if not leave be. What a bargain!
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Spray - add you touch to it :)
ReplyDeletedefinitely spray it, it'll be amazing in red gloss!
ReplyDeleteI say spray away but I bet it would look fab in neon pink!xx
ReplyDeleteLeave it, and then spray it if it starts rusting. That's my two cents (Jan from Canada!)
ReplyDeleteGo on...spray it. I think it will look fab.
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