Simply Beautiful By Angela

creating simple beauty on a budget

Thrifted Magazine Holder To Flower Market Basket

Hello everyone and welcome to the February thrift store challenge!

The Rules:

  • Upcycle an item(s) from a thrift store, resale store, or garage sale into a new piece of decor.
  • There’s no monthly theme.
  • There’s no budget to stick to.

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I actually picked up two items on my most recent thrift store excursion. I had to eeny, meeny, miny, moe which one of them to work on to share for this month’s challenge! I will hopefully be done with the other one before the March challenge and will share it with you guys in the next week or so. Maybe. I’ve been easily sidetracked these days haha.

Anyways, meet this month’s lucky contestant!

I always seem to stumble upon several magazine holders each time I visit the thrift store–they are like a staple item that you’re almost always guaranteed to find! I usually pass them by, however when I spotted this one I decided that I really liked the spindles and scalloped edges. So even though I didn’t have a clue what I was going to do with it, I went ahead and brought it home and started working on it.

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I began by using an allen wrench to remove the handle since I didn’t really care for the shape of it.

Next, I mixed up some plaster of paris and a sample pot of SW Versatile Gray that I had on hand to create DIY chalk paint and applied two coats.

It sat like this for about a week while I brainstormed what I should do next. Since spring is near (hopefully…) I decided that this would make the perfect vintage themed flower market basket. So I whipped up an image on Canva, printed it out and grabbed a piece of 1/4″ plywood from my stash.

I brushed some Mod Podge on to the plywood, pressed my image on top, and then coated the top of it with some more Mod Podge.

Once it was dry, I cut all four edges down on the miter saw and lightly sanded the edges.

To make it look a little more worn and to disguise the small bubbles that didn’t smooth very well, I dry brushed some Versatile Gray over the top. Finally, I used Liquid Nails to secure it to the front.

This is how it turned out!

I chopped the sides off on the miter saw since they looked out of place without the handle.

I placed some burlap inside along with some pretty spring stems that I scored from Joanns. They were already 40% off and I used my 20% mobile coupon on top of that so I got them for such a steal!

I noticed while I was editing these pictures that the sign is not centered. Shoot. I attached it as we were heading out the door to go to Waffle House, so I guess I can blame it on hunger!

It’s going to drive me absolutely nuts now that I noticed it, so I will totally be popping off and re-attaching it as soon as I get a chance to.

If I weren’t already craving spring before putting this together, I REALLY am now!

I will be busting out my spring decor from storage this weekend! For me spring always commences as soon as we hit the month of March despite the fact that we usually get quite a bit of snow all the way through April or later here in Colorado.

Thanks for joining me today! Be sure to check out what amazingness my blogging buddies came up with below. See you all next week!

And now for more thrifty goodness!

Check out what my fellow upcyclers created below!

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Comments

  1. This is really beautiful, and a great way to repurpose the magazine rack. I have one just like it that I’m so inspired to go makeover now. Love it!

  6. I’m waiting to come across a magazine holder like this, but I can never find one at my thrift store. This is right up my style and yes it makes me want spring. I also live where we will probably have snow for much of March and April too, but spring eventually comes every year. Love it!

    • Thank you Jenny! I am so surprised that your stores aren’t swarming with them like mine! Well fingers crossed you come across one soon 🙂

  7. What a lovely makeover! Thrift store items that can be repurposed are some of my favorite projects. Yours looks great. The sign is a perfect finishing touch.

  11. I see these magazine holders all the time and want to grab them but don’t. You’ve inspired me to buy one the next time I find a good deal. Thanks so much for sharing!

  14. Oh my gosh, I love this! What a fantastic upcycle. Thanks so much for sharing at Sweet Inspiration!

  15. Hi Angela, this is a great project so fresh for spring. Many years ago I had a magazine rack similar and discarded it because I was tired of it, now I wish I had it back, boo.

    I found you over on Condo Blues party and I would love to have you share your talent and creativity on #Friday Features bloghop, check it out, lots of other blogs have.

    Have a great weekend!
    Karren

  18. OMG a friend gave me a magazine holder similar to yours some months ago and I had no idea what to do with it, now you gave me an idea!! It looks lovely, the sign you did for it it’s gorgeous.

    • Thank you so much Pili! And I’m so happy to hear that I helped inspire you 🙂

  19. This turned out so great! It looks so much better with flowers inside than magazines. I see this ALL THE TIME at the thrift store and totally want to pick one up now!