Painting a rattan laundry hamper

We are still working on Angry Kid’s room makeover.  Yes, it has been since January.  The Angry Family is quite busy.  I constantly walk around Angry Kid’s room and find more projects to do, or project’s for my husband to do.

The latest project was his laundry hamper.  Angry Kid had a white rattan laundry hamper and green gingham liner from Pottery Barn Kid’s.  He’s had the same laundry hamper since he was born.  His room used to a be a frog theme long ago.  Angry Husband was fine with the white hamper, but it drove me nuts.  Cause it didn’t match the current theme.

We started off with the white version of this rattan hamper.  I didn’t realize that I paid that much for it when I originally bought it.  Angry Husband used some matte black primer spray paint that he already had in the garage.  We (ok he) spray painted over a period of three days.  The hamper actually took about four cans of spray paint.  We already had three, so it didn’t cost us that much.  The tricky part about all of the spray painting was the holes and grooves in the rattan.

You have to make sure that you thoroughly get the paint on the inside and outside of the wicker.  Angry Husband had done three coats of paint, when I noticed white rattan peeking through.  So he sprayed one last final coat of paint on the basket.

I then realized that we still needed to figure out the hamper liner problem.  I had the current (green gingham) liner.  I looked online and did not see any liners that fit our current color scheme.  Luckily, I have this AWESOME and EXTREMELY TALENTED friend, who also sews.  I went to lunch with this friend, KELLY, and asked her about the liner.  She told me that it was super simple and to go buy the fabric.

I arrived at Kelly’s house, later that afternoon with my three yards of fabric.  I bought extra fabric just in case.  My trip to the fabric store was quite an experience.  I didn’t realize how hard it was to get solid colored fabric.  Kelly was able to match the dimensions of the original liner and she made me a new one.

I showed it to Angry Husband when I got home that night.  He was impressed.  This is why I am friends with creative crafty people, you never know when you might need help with a project.

I’m really happy with the results of our rattan project.  The black spray paint made the laundry hamper look brand new.  Can you imagine all the wonderful colors that you could paint, rattan? The ideas are endless.  Just think of all the rattan trash baskets, chairs, and tables just sitting around in your garage. I saved a ton of money by just using a little spray paint.

We have one more project left and Angry Kid’s room will finally be finished.  Hopefully, we can get it done by the end of the summer.  That is my goal.