how a little trip to @HobbyLobby helped gived my builder's grade pantry door some vintage style...

Wow. That was a long title.

A couple of weeks ago, I shared my "new" entryway with you...it's really amazing what a coat (or 3) of paint can do...

It went from this:

to this:

Love.

As part of that makeover I repainted our little pantry door...it used to look like this:

Oh my gosh...so yuck.

But now look at it...

Sooooo much better, huh?

And it was really fairly simple to do...

First I took the door off the hinges and painted the entire thing (front and back) Duck Egg blue. I knew I wanted to add some texture to the door, but I wasn't really sure how I wanted to do it...that is until a trip to Hobby Lobby and a little thinking outside the box helped solve my problem.

As I was walking through the aisles, something near the back of the store caught my eye...in the dollhouse section...yep, the dollhouse section.

This is what I saw...

Fake "tin" roofs and dollhouse floor & door trim. I snatched up all they had (3 roofs and 4 packages of trim)...and then I headed to the wood stuff and grabbed a couple other things...(you'll see those in a minute)...

I toyed with the idea of leaving the roofs white and painting the trim white to match, but in the end I decided everything should be the same color as the door.

As soon as all the paint was dry, I eyed up the measurements (I rarely measure "for real"...it drives my husband crazy) and attached the roofs with wood glue. Then I held up the trim to the sides of each roof and just quickly marked it each piece with a pencil and "mitre'd" them with scissors. I attached the trim with glue and used painter's tape to hold the pieces in place until the glue had dried.

Then I just pushed some spackle into the places that didn't line up perfectly and painted over that with a little brush.

I knew that I wanted a little decoration at the top of the door, too...so when I was in wood department at the store I scooped up a couple of wood decorations...a medallion and some flourishes...

Then I repainted the door knobs...I changed them from brass to black. Next I added a little silver charm and a glass gem to the front of the knob for instant vintage appeal.

 I love that as the door is opened and shut, the paint on the knob is getting worn...

So, what do you think? Better, no?

Tomorrow I'll show you what I've done with the inside of the door...