White Jewelry Box with Black Glaze, a $2.99 Thrift Store Makeover

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Did you catch my super LONG Facebook Live video a couple of weeks ago? If not, don’t worry, it’s in this blog post! I took this simple $2.99 Goodwill jewelry box from dated to a beautiful white jewelry box finished with black glaze. This is a super easy first thrift store makeover and I’ll take you through it step by step in this tutorial.

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Supplies for White Jewelry Box with Black Glaze

Believe it or not… I did this whole project on a Facebook Live video! It’s a long one but if you’re a visual learner you can watch the whole makeover on this video.

BTW, if you’d like to join the Thrift Store Makeover Facebook group that I mention, you still can!

First step, as always, clean the jewelry box. This one was only dusty so it didn’t take a lot of cleaning.

Next, remove the glass. Sometimes the screws are stuck or stripped but these came out easy. Save the screws and glass clips in a dish or bowl so you won’t lose them.

The Country Chic All-in-One Decor Paint is like the other chalk-type paints that I use. No sanding is necessary. You can just start painting after cleaning your piece.

I gave it two coats of paint, letting the first one dry before going on to the second.

After the second coat of paint dries, I painted on a coat of furniture glaze and wiped it off almost immediately. BTW, I start glazing at about 44:00 in the video so you can skip to that part if you just want to see the glazing.

And here’s how it turned out.

Quite a bit different from the antiquing dust that I used last week, right?

I replaced the glass with a decorative metal sheet. I traced the original glass onto the metal sheet and cut it out with my tin snips. (You can see that at about 22:00 on the video.) After the paint and glaze dried I glued it in and replaced the glass clips.