Creating a Paint and Craft Station from a Lazy Susan

A very chippy lazy susan crafting and painting station.

How to update a thrift store Lazy Susan for use with painting and crafts. This project was completed with snow white and soldier blue Old Fashioned Milk Paint.

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Ahhhhhh I needed a craft for this month’s Old Fashioned Milk Paint post. For some reason, I’ve been coming up blank. Everything I touch has died an ugly death recently… I mean… it’s not going well. You ever have those weeks? Usually I just put my sewing machine, hammer, etc away for a while and find a good book to read. Well I needed a post by the 31st and on the 26th, I was wandering Goodwill looking for inspiration.

I found this.

Before Pictures: Lazy Susan from the thrift store

The turning mechanism worked perfectly and the glass containers weren’t damaged at all. I left the glass to wash, and decided to paint the wood. My initial thought was that I’d use this for food, but I just struggled to think when I would use it.

Then I remembered the paint party that I’m hosting in a week! This would be PERFECT for holding paint.

… I know, it would also be perfect for holding food at the party. BUT PAINT! It’s nice to have a rotating item like this for everyone to share the colors at a table. I think it’d also be perfect for crafts with small items like beads or gems. I like the glass containers because they’re easy to clean out.

Supplies Supplies listed below may include affiliate links to the products.

Old Fashioned Milk Paint: Soldier Blue and Snow White
Sander or sand paper
Polyurethane
Wet paper towel
Paint brushes and a container to mix paint in
Felt for bottom and hot glue gun

Tutorial

This actually turned out a lot different than I imagined. I’m going to tell you how I did it, but this probably isn’t ideal. I messed up a LOT. In fact, I nearly scrapped the project and sanded it down again.

I started by sanding my piece. I recommend doing a better job than I did. A lot of the chippy look I got is because I didn’t sand it well enough. I also sanded the weird fabric piece on the bottom down… I wasn’t sure I could get it off and I want to put a new piece of felt on it. Once sanded, I wiped away all of the dust.

I mixed up my blue OFMP and painted it onto the bottom of the lazy susan. I did NOT paint where the felt is. This allowed me to flip it and paint the top of the lazy susan immediately. Very convenient as I was trying to be speedy.

Lazy Susan Paint & Craft Station Supplies

One coat of Soldier Blue Old Fashioned Milk Paint

Now I decided to whip out my hair dryer and dry the lazy susan to speed up the process. Well… it worked-ish. I think this also contributed to the paint chipping. I dried a layer, painted over it, dried a layer, painted over it. There were three layers of blue. Once that dried, it was pretty chippy. I used the brush on my vacuum to vacuum up all of the loose paint chips.

That top picture… really… I thought I was done for. Look how bad it looks!

Next, I took some white OFMP to go over the top. I wanted a white wash look so I used more water in the mix than normal, and also wiped the piece down with a wet paper towel. This worked *fairly* well. It also made it chip more.

White Old Fashioned Milk Paint over the Blue

Let dry. Repeat process to clean up with the vacuum.

Use something to seal your piece. I used two or three layers of polyurethane.

Cut a piece of felt for the bottom and adhere using a hot glue gun.

Pouring paint into the individual containers for the lazy susan.

Thrift store lazy susan, painted with Old Fashioned Milk Paint and left chippy.

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