Spray Painting Glassware and Vases

Spray painting glassware is not only easy, but it’s fun to change up thrift store pieces on a whim!

Thrift Store Glassware

Glassware such as this is so easy to find at thrift stores, or even in your own basement or garage!

Clean Glassware Well

Although spray painting glassware is easy, there are a few important steps to follow. For me, the first order of business was to pre-clean the glassware outside in a bucket. I was NOT bringing them into the house with all that nastiness.

After I pre-washed the glassware, I brought them in the house and washed them with warm soapy water.

Spray Painting Glassware

Then I hit them up with some white spray paint! It is amazing how much you can change plain ordinary glassware with spray paint. See more painted glassware ideas here.

For these items,  I used Rustoleum paint. I did not use primer or sealer. I intend to use these solely to “look pretty”. Who knew spray painting glassware could be so fun?

I used the same paint on all the pieces. This short one (right) looks glossier probably due to the fact that it was a much shinier glass before I started.

On the wider mouthed pieces I lightly sprayed inside the mouth. If you do this, you will easily know what needs to be done. Remember—several light coats are best. I also turned them upside down to do the bottom.

Although the white is very pretty against the red, you can paint glass any color. Check out that link, and scroll down beyond the DIY Birdbath, and you will see a very pretty turquoise vase.

In fact, I recently spray painted this vase I picked up a while back at the thrift store. As I did with the white glassware, I washed and dried this vase well. It is a little tricky getting all the stickers off, but hot soapy water will make it easier.

Whenever I spray paint glass or anything really, I believe in doing several light coats. That really helps prevent runs. Spray painted glass dries very quickly, so even though I ended up doing 4 coats all together, this was still a really quick project.

Finally, for the fourth coat, I placed the glass vase on a 2×2 and made sure I had full coverage all around.

I only sprayed the outside of the vase, but I love, love, love how it turned out. Don’t you?

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It looks so pretty with some dried hydrangeas! See, I told you spray painting glass is fun and easy!

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