Spray Painting Bathroom Hardware

We've probably been over the fact that we're cheap, right?

So naturally, instead of buying new hardware for the bathroom cabinets, we decided to recycle them.

We used Krylon's Brushed Metallic Spray Paint in Oil Rubbed Bronze. And then topped it with a coat of Krylon Triple-Thick Clear Glaze

On Sunday, I started with the hinges from the bathroom cabinets. The were nasty, gold, and rusting. They really needed this.

Door hinges, before.

I sprayed them a total of 3 times (once for each side). Then hit them with clear glaze.

Door Hinges, finished.

So after that was done, we decided to tackle the cabinet handles. We actually only needed to paint one set, since the other set (in the Master Bath) didn't match at all. We bought new handles from Lowe's (the 3 in. "Davis" pull by allen + roth) that would kind of look similar. I wanted everything to match, but Mike made me realize that they are two different bathrooms, and rarely would I be seeing all the handles at once.

New vs. Old

We installed the new handles first, since that was the easiest part.

Then it was time to spray the handles for the guest bathroom. Mike had seen a really efficient way to spray paint door hardware on HGTV awhile ago. You just grab some toothpicks and stick whatever you're spraying into a block of Styrofoam. That way you can get all sides easily.

Handles before...

Handles after.

Handles attached.

The weird white sheen on the handles is from the clear gloss spray paint. It's not as noticeable in real life.

Our BRIGHT Front Door

We once had a red door.

By once, I mean this afternoon.

We also had brass hardware. Red and gold have never been my favorite color combination.

We decided that this needed to change. Not only was it boring and old, but it was poorly painted (shocker) and sticking to the frame.

We had a lot of extra paint left over from the master bedroom accent wall; Blue Agave by BEHR.

And since we're both down for saving money, we decided we could deal with a light turquoise door.

I primed it out first using Kilz.

And this is how it turned out.

We also changed all of the hardware to brushed nickel.

From the street it looks SO much better.

The obligatory before and after:

The only problem with this little project is the fact that we just used a flat sheen to paint our front door. Not ideal, but we will figure out how to deal with this later.