Take an old kid's globe and give it a classy makeover with white spray paint and silver sharpie.

I'm so pleased with this simple makeover. It started life as a charity shop purchase by our daughter for a uni project and it was just about to make it's way back to the charity shop when I thought it might be worth attempting a makeover. 

I did a little looking around on pinterest for some inspiration (even made a globe board & pinned some Star Wars Death Stars just because!) and settled on trying something involving painting it white with some silver accents. This was an "evolve as it went along" project with no pressure because the globe had been on it's way out the door anyway.

To make one you need:

• A old kid's globe

• White matt spray paint

• Silver spray paint

• A silver sharpie

• A fine black sharpie

Take the globe out of the stand.

Give it a coat of white matt spray paint. I just did this in stages, one side at a time.

Whilst you can still make out the landmasses go over their outline using the black sharpie.

Give it another couple of coats of white spray paint until it's evenly coated.

At this point the bright colours should be all gone but you still should be able to make out the black sharpie lines faintly.

Now go over those landmass outline with your silver sharpie.

Spray the stand silver and reassemble. Do this carefully so you don't scratch your nice new paint job.

I'm loving this classy looking new globe, complete transformation!

The landmasses have become an approximation as some detail gets lost in the thickness of the pen. Some islands may have disappeared on mine, after the first coat of paint some areas were a little hard to make out. I apologise to Greece, Canada, Thailand and the Philippines as I know quite a lot of their little islands are missing on my globe now!

This would work with any colour scheme I think, gold or bronze would look amazing. You could try spraying the whole globe with a metallic paint but I imagine only if you are not bothered about drawing in the land masses, I can't imagine that showing through the paint at all.

I did think about colouring in all the landmasses with the silver, I may still do that one day. Or maybe cover them in paper flowers, or glitter, or sequins....

Julie

Photo credit Carla Nyanyo

I'll be linking up this project at some of these lovely link parties