Mop Bucket Bed Crown
Turn Rags to Royalty
Posted by BarryBelcher
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Using an old tin mop bucket, create a bed crown to go over a baby crib or for a bed canopy with drapes. Can you believe that used to be an old mop bucket?
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You Will Need (12 things)
- Tin Bucket
- Gold, Copper & Silver Spray Paint
- Round Medallion Wax Crayons
- Clear or White Flat Back Rhinestones
- Rhinestone Bead Strip
- Styrofoam Balls Small Paintable
- 1.5 Wood board
- Hot Glue Gun And Glue Sticks
- Bolts
- Screw(s)
- Small Curtain rode
- Curtains
Steps (8 steps, 180 minutes)
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1
Find a new or used tin bucket and measure out crown points evenly with the circumference of the bucket. Draw out points with a sharpie.
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2
Using tin snips, carefully cut along your crown point sharpie lines.
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3
Stick styrofoam balls on the tips of the crown, then spray paint completely silver. Take your two other colors and lightly spray gold and copper giving a gradient look.
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4
Hot glue round wax crayon to the center of each points of the crown. Spray them with paint.
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5
Hot glue rhinestones to the crayon rounds.
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6
Optional, use rhinestone strips and write out monogrammed style lettering to the center of the crown.
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7
Cut 1.5 wood board to an appropriate width for the crown and bend back sides of crown and bolt to wood board. (You will have to drill a hole in the tin with a metal drill bit.)
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8
Mount to wall studs using long wood screws through the wood board. Add curtain rod and drapes and walla! Royal!