DIY Three Tier Stand {DIY in 30}

You guys! I am pushing out a lot of these DIY in 30 projects! I am always excited to have smaller projects in the works that I don’t have to wait days or weeks to finish. This DIY Three Tier Stand was my latest project. I LOVEEEEE tiered trays. Love them! I see them all over the web and in stores, but I am never willing to pay a ton of money for them. The weathered wood, farmhouse tiered trays are usually crazy expensive! Too expensive for this frugal DIYer.

I recently learned a great way to get weathered wood trays is by creating the look with paint on a tiered tray from the thrift store or a yard sale. I was lucky enough to find one recently during a thrift store stop. 

Last year at this time, I was inspired to make Three Tiered Stand Trays from left over wood in the garage. When I saw this piece at my local thrift store, I had to pick it up because the wood work was already done and all I had to do was give it some paint to give it a weathered wood look. 

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Whenever I give a piece a weathered wood look, I start with a beige color. I didn’t have one on hand for this piece so I mixed a brown paint and white together to get the color. 

I painted the three tier stand with the beige color. 

When the beige paint dried, I added some gray paint over it in different areas. I used “Mason Dixon Gray” from Dixie Belle Paint. I dry-brushed the gray paint on in a hap-hazard way. After the gray paint dried, I dry-brushed “Picket Fence” from Fusion Mineral Paint over the tray. Again, I put it on in different places and didn’t have a method behind it. 

Once the white paint dried, I added Antique Wax all over the three tier stand. The wax really deepened the colors and really made this DIY three tier stand perfect. 

You would never know this was the same tray from the thrift store! It looks totally different!

Three tiered stands are perfect for so many things, but this little one was begging to be decorated for spring.  

Speckled eggs, ceramic bunnies, moss and a nest was all this little three tier stand needed to complete it. 

This DIY three tier stand was done in thirty minutes. The longest part of the whole thing was waiting for paint to dry between layers, but I used a table fan and it hurried the process right along. (Impatient much? Ummmm….. I have been told that a time or two.)

Not only do DIY in 30 projects make me so happy, but I love sharing projects where I have taken something I found at a thrift store or yard sale and made it into something I have been admiring in stores and catalogs for little to no money. This is the way to decorate. You keep money in your pocket and you have beautiful spaces in your home at the same time. It is a win-win! 

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Supply Recap For This DIY Three Tier Stand:

“Mason Dixon Gray” from Dixie Belle Paint

“Picket Fence” from Fusion Mineral Paint

Antique Wax

Paint Brush

Beige Paint

A fan if you are impatient like I am 🙂 

If you don’t have time to make your own three tier stand, I found some great options online:

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