DIY umbrella stand

Funny story i have this umbrella {witch i have many other but this happened to be my favorite } one because my mother in law gifted it to me another one because it has zoo many happy colors ..every time i take out people complement me {the umbrella} so much and always asked where i got it from anyway i didn't like i said it was a wonderful gift and like a gift i would like to preserve as well as show it a bit off ...i just thought it might loo good for this space .

So i was thinking okay i have to get myself an umbrella stand .. Something like ....

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But desperate me i couldn't wait for any of them zoo i voted for a different option... oh why not make on sour own.. we are capable so why not...

like this ones for example...

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But also that day i was feeling under the weather and didn't want to go out anywhere is not like the nearest Home Depot ..Target or Homegoods is like 30 mins away... {sad face}

so me and my adorable husband {more him than me } put our heads together and looked around the garage to see what we could use as an umbrella stand .,..and after maybe 2 mins of looking we came a crossed this little round things we use to wrap cables around and rope and all that ...

SO i took out the biiiiiiiiiiiiiiig screws oh does boys where long....!!

The hubs got to work with some drawing and cutting of the base we needed..

You can see from the picture above that where was two  big wholes and the pice of wood we didn't really want dot use another one since this one already had the indentation for the other peace to fit tightly ....

we filled that one pice out with some glue and extra wood ...

Then pour some glue on the indentation and .......

ta-da...............

nooooo it wasn't going to stay like this ;) .....

i gave it two coats of spay paint and oh su much better ... but i honestly dint feel that that was it it needed a bit more... so i took out some skinny painter tape and traced some stripes......

took out some gold paint.. {you know gold is the new black } and i think it goes well with everything and my whole decor in the foyer soooo why not ,,,

And well this is the end result..

 i let it cure both paints for almost an hour each before incorporating out to the foyer...i know spray paint dries really fast but i just wanted to make sure...

  

I was beyond happy with my end result .. oh the teal and the gold go so eel together ,..i just loooooooo vvvvvv eeee  it!!!......



Have you repurpuse something you had around your house lately ?? how did it came out ?? ar you as sown by it like i am with mine??

 Update: looking back i think i needed a little higher to hold this sooooo tall of an umbrella...so we already on the process of making a a bit longer..