Does anyone love the Dollar Tree as much as I do?? I mean, I love to go in there and just spend way too long looking and seeing what I can use to make something else, or what I can paint or incorporate into my home decor. And, when you are shopping on a big time budget like I have been lately, the Dollar Tree is the perfect place to go and get those creative juices flowing. I mean, let’s face it- I am on a budget but I am not going to stop decorating. Many times, those don’t go hand in hand…but when you know how to think outside the box, some cool things can happen!
So, I was in there looking around one day for some inspiration–and I found these individual pears and apples! They do NOT match my decor or my style in the least, but…they would. You see, I have some awesome built ins in my dining room, and I have been wanting a bowl of fruit to display this summer. I wanted them to be a fun color that would spice the decor up a bit, but I didn’t see any I liked {within my budget}. When I saw these at Dollar Tree, I grabbed 5 and headed home. I knew I had the perfect remedy.
Here is what they looked like:
Good looking fruit for $5 total!
I had this awesome metallic gold spray paint on hand, and I have been waiting to use it on the perfect project–and this is IT! {I mentioned in my sea shell post that I have developed a spray paint addiction…}
So, I did what any good painter would do- I headed into my back yard, got an old pallet, set out my fruit and got to sprayin’!
Hint– You will barely use any spray paint on this project, so you will have LOTS left for other projects! And this is some awesome paint, so you will definitely want to have it on hand.
Holy smokes. When I saw these dried and finished, I was blown away. This paint is awesome. They look like high class, golden fruit now!
I was at Hobby Lobby looking through their clearance recently and found a super cute bowl for $4 that I knew would go perfectly on my built ins, so I had ended up having the perfect place for my new fruit!
Here it is on my built ins! My summer dining room is coming together so nicely with the aqua and blue–and now my awesome touch of GOLD!
So, what do you think? This gold spray paint really took this fruit to a whole new level! Do you agree?? I think we all need a touch of gold in our lives, even if it is just some spray painted fruit!
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Last Updated on June 3, 2016
Love your gold painted fruit which look lovely in your new blue bowl, which in turn look beautiful on your built ins ? Only just seen your painted shells – they look great too – would never have thought of that idea ?
Thank you, Denise! I was blown away at how well they turned out! And the shell project is a definite favorite! Eden LOVED doing that 🙂 Hope you are well!
Loving everything gold. I think I’ll try mixing some gold with my silver. Silver getting a little boring.
I totally LOVE the fruit! Just an fyi, our local recycle center GIVES AWAY FREE paint so I have a lot of spray paint! This makes it even more affordable!
Brooke. You just took the fruit to the next level and they fit in perfectly with your signature color and it speaks Brooke
it’s amazing the transformation that spray paint makes!
I found some metal jewelry holders at the thrift store and while they were in OK shape I spray painted them various hues of turquoise.
they look pretty amazing
I’m fine thank you Brooke – thank you for asking – I have just been over and seen your new project that you are about to embark on with the new trailer – how exciting for you – can’t wait to see what you ‘create’ and watching your new house and shop being built. Have Fun and Happy Days 🙂
I think they look lovely ????
Love the spray painted fruit! I’m a spray paint fiend too. lol. I want to try out this kind now. It really looks amazing.
Love the metallic!
It’s amazing what a little paint will do, Brooke!
These are sooo cute!!I need that paint!!! Lol!! Thank you for sharing!!!
These are BEAUTIFUL ❤️. You have inspired me to get to Dollar Tree and find some fruit PRONTO!!! I love your space so much!!!
Love this! Brings back so many memories! My grandmother’s motto was: when in doubt, paint it gold!!!
Thank you for bringing this memory back to me!!
I’m going to give this a try. I need something to put in my crystal bowl (which is sitting empty). Fingers crossed my dollar store has something similar.
Thanks for all the home decor ideas. We all are on a budget and this is helpful to think outside the box. I take a lot of ideas and make things in my clinic at my school. I am a school nurse right now and the kids love to see things made out of products from the dollar store. This has given the kids and teachers ideas for all kind of crafts. Thank you!
I love the fruit painted with the gold spray paint! Classy!
You are seriously so creative! This was a great read. I would have never thought to do this with plastic fruit to spruce up simple home decor. These turned out beautiful and looks very modern.
Such “cute fruit” and so simple and elegant. Can’t wait to try this too! Love your style! Be Blessed!
So simple & super cute ????
Very pretty!!Love that they ate different from the normal fruit colors!
Great idea! Would be a great project for Christmas too
Unfortunately our Dollar Tree doesn’t seem to have all the goodies you get!
Love the gold fruit and striped bowl!!! You have inspired me to want to craft 24/7!!! Brooke you have so many neat and affordable ideas. I so enjoy your inspirational messages,. You are beautiful inside and out and you are truly a woman of God????
I love the gold. Gives an entirely new look to decorative fruits. Really love watching your makeovers.
Love the way you painted the fruit. And it the bowl you bought at Hobby Lobby just made them fruit look so adorable. You made them look awesome, can’t beat it for $5 dollars, you made a $5 dollar project look like $60 dollar if you would of bought it at Pier One. Love it, love your built in shelves. Your whole house is so Beautiful and Amazing.
Love the way they turned out and thry look beautiful on your shelf!
I adore the gold sparkle this adds to the built in! What a cool idea!
Love this idea, I too am a spray paint fanatic, I’m usually spraying wood to stencil on.
I also love the painted frames
Your spray painted fruit looks fabulous. I wonder if Dollar Tree still carries the fruit? Thanks for the awesome inspiration! ????
What a great idea! You could paint the fruit any color to match your decor. I really like your Hobby Lobby bowl. Too cute!
The gold fruit looks amazing in the aqua bowl!! Who would ever think for less than $10 you could create something so cute!! You definitely have a gift for creating and staying on budget! Thanks for sharing!!
They really turned out cute great idea. With your roster project I went searching in my basement I had the roster and was going to try it, but think my husband pitched it ????. I am hunting for another and now will be looking for fruit too. Love your ideas!! ????. Thanks for sharing you visions always so fun to follow you!!
Love the idea of a little gold with your summer colors. What spray paint did you use?
I’m new to the blog so this is so very interesting!
I love the aqua and blue together. I would of never thought of gold for the fruit, but love it and the red bird completes it. Thanks for sharing your decor. I am always getting great ideas for my home from your great ideas and decorating.
Looks awesome and very summer decor friendly!!
Tammy
I love the fruit painted with the gold it pairs perfectly with the turquoise and white. Beautiful
Brooke ,
They look gorgeous, I love them great job girl.
Sherry
That is an amazing quick transformation. Im always trying to do high end crafts in a budget and this one is perfect! Thank you!
Very cute and affordable idea!
I love the make over. I cute job!
I think they would be perfect for A gilded Christmas theme! Partridge in a pair tree.
Great way to save money and turn something boring into something fabulous and on trend now! Great idea and I will be doing it this weekend. Thank you for the idea and inspiration!
Love the painted fruit in gold! Think Inwill give a try! Would look good in a bowl on my new three tiered tray! You have such wonderful ideas!❤️
Thanks for the birthday wishes. I was actually sick with the stomach flu. Loved the look of the gold fruit. I also love the dollar tree. Keep the ideas coming and enjoy your evening.
Love this idea… pretty paint color!
I love trying to think out of the box and come up with new things. Thank for your inspiration! I love your fruit and I think I’m going to paint shells with my granddaughter! ❤️
Love the gold painted fruit. They could easily transition for the holidays as well.
These are stunning! I love this idea!! Thanks Brooke for always being an inspiration!!
Love the makeover on the fruit. They look so fabulous painted gold. Love them!!
I like the fruit in the natural color (sorry) but it’s an awesome idea and I understand that gold is a new color for decor. I love your imagination and how you can put things together!
❤️ Jennifer
I think they turned out really cute ????????????
Holy smokes is right! Wow what a difference that makes. They look so different and beautiful ❤️ As u said it’s an oldie but I think it’s awesome. I. Ever saw this one before. Thank you…I live it with colors you paired it with too.
Spelling correction. *I never saw this one but I love it with the colors you paired them up with ????????????
I just love the apples you did. I have a small built in and need color. I am going to have to try something like that. I have a Charlie Chip can full of shells that I just can’t figure out what to do with them. My Mother picked them all up on the beach here in Florida. So your painted shells has solved my problem. I love your blog and listening to you talk about your faith. Thanks for sharing your time!
Classy fruit!????????❤️
Love the fruit. I think it would also be great with silver or crackled paint. Keep up the good work!
Blessings,
Faye Benson
Although I’m more of a rustic farmhouse kinda person these turned out very nice and look great in your decor.
Love the gold on the fruit and I also have wooden horse head bookends I will be painting gold also (they belonged to my grandfather).
I so love the way they came out. Redoing my kitchen decor. Might have to try this one.
What an amazing idea! I love them ???? it all looks fabulous ✨ your very creative…beautiful ????
Love it!!! They turned out gorgeous! Gotta have some of that gold spray paint!
Love love love the gold painted fruit. Will be beautiful at Christmas time also. Just love you and all that you do. God bless those hands for all she touches turns to GOLD.
Love the gold fruit! Looks very “high end”. You always amaze me with your ideas!!
I’ve been watching all your spray paint ideas lately.
The hen!
The gumball machine.
The vases.
And now the Fruit.
Putting ideas into my head. Gotta find me something to spray paint that fits my decor!!!
I did spray paint faded umbrellas. They still look great!
You are a generous!!!
I have used fruit in my home for years. Coming from a family in the produce business it was easy to do! Lol
But like with most things we get tired of them but still want to use them in my decor. This beautiful idea and project is just the trick!! Your look so beautiful in your Hobby Lobby clearance find. Who would ever know?
You have everything displayed so lovely!!
Thank you so much for the amazing idea!!
love your gold fruit, my style is ,whatever i like goes together. love the bowl.
I have to admit, I wasn’t too sure about gold fruit but after seeing the finished product and how you decorated with them, I’m obsessed. You have such a creative mind. I can “recreate” but coming up with original ideas is difficult for me.
I am so inspired by all of your creations and they are usually simple enough for me to do! I am taking some of your ideas and running with them! I’m so glad I found you!
Love love love the gold fruit!! Sometimes the simplest things are just the right touch to make something amazing! New to your blog and I’m loving all the great ideas????
Love the painted fruit . Loved the colored shells
Absolutely love your idea of spraying dollar tree fruit and spraying gold / silver ! I’m going to do it !! And put a little dark wax !! We shall see ! Many thanks for your wonderful ideas and sweet spirit !
I have dollartree fruit and love what you did with the gold paint. Going to Hobby Lobby tomorrow to get some and spruce up my fruit. Thank you for the idea.
I love the fruit makeover!
I love the fruit Brooke!
I would have never have thought painting plastic fruit!
So smart & creative! Love the fruit!
Hey Brooke! What a fabulous idea! I have to try this for sure. Not only is it easy but it’s so stinking cute too!! Thanks for the inspiration!
Very classy looking Something cheap made to look like something expensive
I love it! It fit so well with the decor. I am like you as I shop around for bargains and if I done use it right away, I know that I will find something you have made or at least get an idea from you. Thank you for using your talents and budgeting prowess to let us on a budget to be able to have beautiful things! ps: I LOVE SPRAY PAINT ALSO!!
This is a great update!
I love watching you! I am not good at spray painting. I alway think it looks worse then when I started. I have tried to not get so close to have runs or I use spray paint and it starts peeling about 3 weeks later. Your projects always turn out cute. My house is traditional with a little bit of color. I love seeing your projects because it gives me inspiration to be a little braver on colors.
This project was one of my favorites. I just love how it turned out. You have inspired me to do the same.
Thank you for sharing
Oh wow! Those look great I love that idea I have some fruit I’ve had for years that I put away. I think I will get it out and paint it gold or maybe white. Thanks for sharing. I always enjoy everything you share.????
The fruit came out nice! I haven’t seen any fruit at dollar tree in a minute. I love the color combos though. Your amazing btw!
Girl! Everything you touch turns to gold – literally with this fruit. I haven’t seen anything yet (and I’ve seen a lot) that you’ve created that wasn’t fantastic. You amaze me everyday. My brain just doesn’t see outside the box so you are definitely an inspiration to me.
I love this. Gives me a peaceful feeling ????
I would have never thought to give the fruit a second look! I will take it slow now when going through the store! These look awesome!! ????????????
I would have thought of painting the fruit. Love the color you chose. They look really great in the bowl. I’m going to try spray painting artificial fruit.
Love love love the color of the fruit, and use the paint on everything that doesn’t match my decor. Great job!
These turned out amazing! And love the gold with the turquoise. It would be beautiful in the white also similar to the vases you painted a few days ago! I’m starting to love the spray painting.
They look great!
I never would have thought to paint them gold. They look great in your built ins.
What a great idea! Could do silver, or actually any color to match your decor. Love the painted shell idea! I have what is called a “pool room” that leads to our pool out back. What a way to add color and use all of those collected shells from vacations.
So beautiful. So easy. So cheap.
Those look rich!
I love the shiny fruit in the same color
Hi Brooke! OMG I do love the gold Fruit!!! Reminds me of the other day my 4 year old grandson Jetson saw this little bird I have (kinda like your red one) and said “Oh GiGi your rich!!” I said “No honey I am not” he said “Yes you are your bird has gold legs so when you have gold you are rich!!” I just laughed and hugged him. Kids!! I wonder what he will think when I get the fruit and paint it Gold!!
My heart must be pure gold by now because when I am with him and Cohen I feel rich!!
Thank you for everything you do! I have had a liver and kidney transplant from a hereditary Dx and I look for things that are beautiful on a budget to make, and YOU have that happen for me!
Thank you so much!
Melissa
Love this! On the hunt for old fruit today!!
You did a great job on the fruit I couldn’t see for sure what you did on the shells I have seen shells around a picture frame
You can.make anything.look beautiful and I love the little bird too.
I love that gold touch and I am going to grab a can of that spray paint. I wonder how a bit of sugar glitter would look over it? If I try it I will send you a pic! Love your style!
I love your gold fruit and your bowl is your favorite color. You are a decorating genius Brooke, especially on a budget.
I would love some of the wax. I can’t find it anywhere in my area.
I love the gold painted fruit in the pretty blue bowl.
I already have the paint and a blue bowl. This can be my next project for sure. Brooke you always have the best ideas that look so lovely each time. I love to change out decorations in my home too. It is just so much fun and I love crafting projects.
Would love to be a winner for this writing of the project you did with the fruit.
Love, Paula Barton in Texas ♥️
I love this! You are such an inspiration to so many. Keep being you Brooke ????
Adorable project! Love that bowl you found to hold your fruit! You are so creative, Brooke. Thanks for sharing your creativity with us. Love and Hugs~~
WHAT A BIG DIFFERENCE.LOVE THE GOLD