And the Trophy Goes to…
Cottage Living, Idea House 2008. I see this room with the white glossy spray-painted trophies and think it is quirky, but it sticks in my brain 2 years later (which is a FEAT considering I can’t remember my gym locker combination after a 45-minute spinning class).
via Flickr_Cottage Living
via Flickr_Cottage Living
See the trophies?
Flash Forward, Winter 2010. Nearly every day, I look at my son’s shelves and determine something is NOT right with the miscellaneous crap thrown up there including a lot of baby blue items given to us post-birth. Something was missing. Something needed to be red. Cue: Cottage Living image. Enter: 9 trophies for $5 (via my want ads at work).
Slap on some red spray-paint and…Voila:
Now, there is an entire back story to this…the kid loves trophies. I give out invisible trophies all the time to the kids for inducing various behaviours (and they FALL for it!).
$5 spray painted trophies-cum-art. Who knew?
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THAT is a neat idea! The trophies look so great on S’s shelf! Love the red!!!!
I love that!!!!! Great idea. Looks so much better!
They really do look like art when they are painted that way! I wonder if I could get my kids to go for it…
Just had to comment on this one…BRILLIANT.
Marsha
probably could have raided mom’s attic for tons of trophies…oh wait…they would all be soccer players. i’m staring at a gigantic fantasy football tropy you could have! on other hand i believe my goal given to me by “my house stager” was to put a ball of moss in the top. want to spray paint our madame alexander dolls pink for the diva and rhino’s rooms?
That’s such a fun idea!!
How awesome! You are soooo creative. I need help with Ben’s room . . . transforming it into a “big boy” room. Any ideas? Maybe you could be my interior decorator!
I’m up for the challenge!
Are you kidding me. You mean that is what I could have done with all those trophies I took to Goodwill last year. Brillant!
I love this idea-and I’ve got a box of old trophies in the shed. Think my husband would notice if I spray painted them?
Gina — GO FOR IT! (He’ll never know….)
I did the SAME thing. when i redid my boys bathroom, i found an old baseball trophy (my boys obviously wouldnt give up theirs) at GW and got the idea. I painted mine ORB and it looks great next to old baseballs in a wire basket, on a shelf about the toilet. One of these days i am gonna start my own blog. Neat to know someone else saw potential in an old trophy.
So cute! If we have a boy, I so want to do this!
Love the red trophies.