The tale of the turquoise cart

Remember that beverage cart that I wanted to make? Well...I recently succeeded in that DIY mission. Here is the story: There was recently a community stoop sale {it's like a yard sale but on people's stoops} in our neighborhood and someone was selling an Ikea wooden beverage cart that I had been looking at, for only $15! However, I had already made plans to go meet a friend in the Burg to checkout Strangeways. So I planned to get caffeinated and come back to get the cart. In the back of my mind I kept thinking that it wasn't what I wanted because it wasn't like the metal ones that I posted here, but I was just excited to have a new project. When I returned back to my hood the cart was sold and I was disappointed but I had a feeling that we would find something better soon. That night when I was walking Jack I thought that I should cross the street and check the things on the sidewalk because it was recycle day and there are often things left out that people don't want to carry. TADA!! Right across the street was this little beauty:

Rough right? It seemed like someone had used it for outside plants or something because it was rusty and very dirty on the bottom but we had a vision and I knew we could make it cute. Naturally we decided to get started right away...okay that might have been my idea{sorry for the bad lighting on the first pics} I was just so excited I had to start that night! We tried to give it a turquoise color using the paint we already had in the house, but it ended up being way brighter than what we wanted and was still wet hours later.

 

The next day it was still wet so we walked over to Lowes to find a quick drying spray paint{i have no idea why we didn't do that in the first place} and we found this pretty light turquoise color that suited our kitchen much better.  

 

 

If ever in doubt.. just buy the spray paint. It was SO fast and easy and dried within about an hour. Here is our almost finished product. We painted the wheels gold and added a handle. I'm excited to add a few other touches, like a tea towel soon!