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.