Country Cottage Wedding Ideas- Floral Ideas Featured On The Eclectic Revisited Blog
Nothing screams country than distressed painted vases. Many of these vases can be painted to coordinate with the colors of your wedding. When painting metal, you want to use a oil paint for the bottom paint color. Ideally this look works the best when you can see two colors. You never want to distress showing the silver tin. Consider a gray, or a gray green, black or even a dark brown as the base color. Specialty paint stores like Benjamin Moore sell oil paint in satin in a wide range of colors which you can use as your base color. Flat oil paint is recommended, but satin works just as good. You need something that the top color will easily adhere to. Paint the top color and after it is dry, slightly distress the container using a sponge sander. Then as a final coat, you want to even out the flat look caused by distressing. Your top color should be either an eggshell, or a satin. Dip your paint brush into the paint, and wipe most of the paint of the brush with a paper towel, and slightly go over the entire vase. The top coat will even out many of the stokes that the sandpaper makes. You can also add a monogram with a stencil, or even table numbers on the vases.
French Florist Bucket Starting From $11.99
Home Décor Classic Tin - Flower Vase
Coal Bin Flower Pot - Barn Roof
3 Garden Pots Safari Flower Tin Planters- $7 dollars for 3 containers which can be painted and distressed.
InterDesign Pail , White- This container simply could be spray painted white.
My Painted Waste Basket
Ikea used to sell toilet Paper holders in an aluminum finish. I had an old one, but my colors aren't really silver, so it has been sitting around my garage for the longest time. I primed it with an oil paint, and then finished it with a baby blue color. The blue and gold look terrific. I had a set of ornate over-sized vintage pulls which I spray painted gold, and I created two holes with my drill on the side of the container and added the hardware on the side of the container to add some extra details. I then used some lamp parts to create the extra long handle on the lid of the container, so it would be easy to grasp. The inside was left in the aluminum for easy washing.
