Give A Dollar Tree Glass Vase A Luxe DIY Makeover Using A Slinky And Spray Paint

A golden shimmer can make anything look like it's worth a mint, even a Dollar Tree vase. A glossy white vase looking as if it were dipped in liquid gold and wrapped with a gilded slinky shines for pennies. Despite the dubious-sounding description, a $1.25 glass container looks like it came from the expensive store in the mall with this Midas touch. All you need to mimic the ingenious design by YouTuber Budget Friendly Creations is a clear glass cylindrical vase from Dollar Tree, a small plastic slinky (with about a 3-inch diameter), some wide painters' tape, and one can each of metallic gold and white spray paint.

The interwebs are teeming with DIYs for stylish vases using a few dollar store finds, but rarely do they look like a million bucks — ok, more like a hundred bucks. Not only is this craft light on the wallet, but it's also light on time commitment; not counting the paint drying time, you can get this project done in 30 minutes or under. The most expensive part of this project is the spray paint, and you'll certainly have enough paint left over to make more vases for your favorite gift recipients who are looking to use gold finish in their home decor.

Grab your painter's tape and encircle the vase with tape fully from the lip to about 1.5 to 2 inches from the base; make sure to apply the tape evenly along the margin near the base since you'll be adding gold spray paint here. Prep the vase's interior with a wipe from a cotton ball soaked in rubbing alcohol. Once it's dry, spray the interior with white spray paint.

While it's drying, cut off about ⅓ of the slinky. Spray both sides of this piece with gold paint. Budget Friendly Creations on YouTube wrapped the piece around a tall, rectangular box roughly as wide as the slinky. This helped spread apart the coils and keep them in place during painting and drying. Also, give the vase's exterior base — the part not covered by tape — several even coats of gold paint. Once all components are dry, coil the slinky evenly around the vase from the top edge of the gold base to the lip.

If shiny luxe isn't really your aesthetic, you can add your own twist to this project. Swap the paint colors for a neon hue, a rich neutral, or, frankly, whatever color of paint is on sale at your local hardware store. Go ultra funky with a glow-in-the-dark slinky left bare for maximalist decor, or give it a few coats of paint in a tint that's the color wheel opposite of the one you used for the interior. Create a base with a paint-dipped look in the same color as the slinky, opt for a third color, or leave it bare.