Vintage Hamper revival

Got this vintage hamper which looked pink in the For Sale postings which is what I wanted.
It was picked up by a friend and came home looking quite tan and dull. Knew I had to paint it!

Had very few colors to choose from, my stash was dwindling. Plus, what I had did not even stretch to what I wanted to do so I had to plan this whole thing using areas of color in just a certain way

. As it turned out, I just baaaaarely made it with the last brush stroke before I ran out of ALL colors. Whew!

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What a transformation!

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Wow! It looks great!

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What a fun transformation! Looks great.

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I had a hamper just like that growing up! Nice painting!

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That’s absolutely gorgeous!
Such a big improvement.

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Really nice transformation from yawn to YOWZA!

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Pretty satisfying that you eked out the last bit of paint to accomplish this! It looks so cool now.

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I love the colors you went with! So bright and vibrant! You really made it into something beautiful. :slight_smile:

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Looks great! How fortunate that you had just enough paint!!

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Great save!

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Beautiful design! I do a similar thing while embroidering that I think of as playing “thread chicken” - just going for it and crossing my fingers that I have enough left!

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‘thread chicken,’ brilliant!