Upcycle a Goodwill-found Straw Hat into a Welcoming Front Door Décor
Invite warm weather vibes your way by transforming a Goodwill-found straw hat into front door décor. With paints and pens, you can take an everyday straw hat and make it super special with bold blooms.
Add a hook, and you’ll have a front door decoration that will turn heads for sure. Wreaths are fine for your front, but this flowering hat will make you welcome Spring with happy style!
Want to know a secret? This front door décor is still wearable, so you can take your DIY talents on the road when you head out with this on your head! It is always such fun to repurpose an item and give it multiple uses!
Step 1: Hunt for hats at Goodwill
No matter the season, your favorite nonprofit Goodwill retail store has a great collection of hats and headwear. This big-brimmed, black ribboned straw hat was charming and elegant, so into my shopping cart it went! The hat’s warm, beige tone and wide brim offered a great space on which to be creative. No need to limit your painting projects to a traditional approach when anything with a nice surface will do the trick. Consider the hat as a blank canvas that just happens to be round and multi-dimensional!
Step 2: Draw your design
Use a permanent black marker to draw in your design. Inspired by a reusable shopping bag purchased at Goodwill, simple sunflowers were sketched in on top. As fate would have it, these are my favorite flowers, too, so it was extra fun to add them.
What are your favorite kinds of blooms? Add them, too, as well as a butterfly or ladybug. The sky—or a garden—is the limit!
Step 3: Brush on the blooms
Using a curved-edge artist’s brush, yellow was added to the petals, orange and brown were put in the flowers’ centers, and green was brushed inside the leaf outlines. The colors were slightly blended together.
With a small, detail-sized craft paint brush, little dots were added around the edge of the sunflowers’ centers to mimic their look.
On top of the green sections, yellow and white lines were brushed to make them look like the leaves’ veins.
Step 4. Go over your lines
Once your blooms and leaves have dried completely, return with your black marker. Go over each line to make it crisp and clean. This will make each sunflower truly pop!
Return your black ribbon around the hat’s crown and look at how it connects with the design’s black lines. Lovely!
Step 5. Display on your door
Based on the design on your hat, you might be able to easily add a piece of wire through its brim. This will serve as a hanger; then add it to your front door. You will feel cheerful and hopeful when you see this friendly decoration.
It’s cheerful because you used your DIY talents to transform it, and it’s hopeful because it speaks of warmer, sunnier days to come!
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Tim Kime
Artist, Motivational Speaker, Life Coach
