Refurb: Drinks Cart

I am very excited to share this project with you today, as I have been pottering away at it for months!

Almost as soon as I joined Pinterest I decided I wanted to make/decorate a drinks cart (Pinterest has a way of doing that). I kept an eye out on regular op-shop runs, and found this to use as the base:

Original cart

After a decent amount of sanding, I painted the cart a similar blue to our couch colour – as it was destined for the lounge. I started with house paint, and ended-up switching to spray paint, because it gave a better finish.

After painting

Now for the piece de resistance – tiles. I decorated the bottom tier with subway tiles, to put a slightly industrial twist on what would have otherwise been a fairly vintage-looking cart. I pre-designed a pattern for the tile layout, which I also had a hand in cutting (under the watchful eye of an expert, mind).

Tile design

Tile layout

Mid-grouting

Most of the accessories for the cart (cocktail shakers, ice buckets, glassware) had been accumulated before the project. All that remained was a piece to tie bottom and top tiers together – which I found in the form of a geometric-patterned placement.

Here is the finished product, which was promptly toasted!

Finished cart

Bottom tier

Top tier

Bottom’s up!

 

Bish