I thought we'd never see the end of our painting marathon, but now that we've completed painting our ENTIRE new house, I'm so happy! Everything looks so fresh and clean and new! (I promise house pictures soon!)
But needless to say, we have accumulated quite a pile of drippy, half-used paint cans, and I decided I couldn't stare at them any longer. I hate ugly visual clutter!
Doesn't it look SO much better? They're sealed up tight so I know they'll keep for a long time. And it will be much easier to grab one of these when I need to do a quick touch up versus dragging out bulky paint cans and prying them open. And don't they just look pretty all lined up? When things are organized in a pretty way I'm so much more motivated to keep them organized and use them more too! Now they just need some labels!
I grabbed some round Avery labels from Staples and found a template for Microsoft Word on the Avery website. Here is the template for these particular labels (#22807). I typed up the labels with the paint brand, color name, sheen, etc.
Printed them out and labeled all my pretty jars!
Perfect! These will easily store on a shelf in the basement or in an extra cabinet. This is one of those tiny projects that makes life so much easier and totally makes me smile! How do you store your paint?
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I came over from Making The World Cuter party. I Just love anything to do with mason jars anyway, but this is a great idea. Thank you for sharing it. I am your new Linky follower.
ReplyDeleteI would never have thought of that. Brilliant!!
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Love this idea Liz!!!! I will definitely do this!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing at The DIY Dreamer.. From Dream To Reality!
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DeleteGreat Idea!!
ReplyDeleteWhat a good idea. I'm guilty of this, i have like five partially filled cans of paint takig up a lot of space.
ReplyDeleteHow smart is this!? I made the mistake of storing old paint in the garage and now it is ruined, so if I ever need more I will have to go buy it. I will remember this for next time!! Pinning now ;)
ReplyDeleteI've been doing this with leftover paint for a while now. Much easier to open and close and you can see if the paint has issues without digging up a screwdriver.
ReplyDeleteAlso, easier to shake it up.
That is a really good idea! So glad you shared it, linked it up, and I saw it and clicked on it!
ReplyDeleteWow, I had no idea you could store paint like that! I've got about a hundred jars getting dusty in the basement and a whole bunch of half used paint cans too! Hmmmm....may have to do something about that.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great idea! I might have to implement this to get rid of all the cans! Thanks so much for sharing at Toot Your Horn Tuesday :)
ReplyDeleteI'm totally going to do this. Thank you for sharing a wonderful tip... and one that is pretty and organized to boot! The labels were VERY SMART.
ReplyDeleteSuper idea! I can see they would be a lot easier to open than a dried tin top of a can. Thanks so much, I know I will enJOY using this idea. and pinning.
ReplyDeleteThis is SO smart ... I am ashamed to say I have those big ol' cans/buckets of paint. Weekend project, here I come! And thanks so much for sharing this at the {what's shakin' link party}!!
ReplyDeleteLove this idea, I just pinned it! :)
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