4 Ways to Use DIY Metallic Painted Coffee Beans

DIY, Joyful hosting / Tuesday, August 12th, 2014

Last week I made some Metallic Painted Coffee Beans; easy to make, inexpensive, and smell lovely.

I was inspired when I stumbled across this picture of coffee beans that appeared to be painted. I clicked on the photo in hope of some DIY instructions, but instead found the beans only appeared blue due to some fancy photo editing. I was disappointed, since I had already thought of a bunch of ways I could use them in my home.

I decided to try a little experiment to make my own.

I will soon post a little tutorial on how to make your own metallic painted coffee beans, but first I thought I’d give you a few reasons to want them!

4 Ways to Use DIY Metallic Painted Coffee Beans

 

1. Vase Filler

Use metallic painted coffee beans as vase filler in a clear glass container.

These two examples show the painted beans in a mason jar with some other DIY accents (Crackle Painted Glass Bottle, Spray Painted Wine Bottle and Votive), and as a stand-alone accent in a round glass vase.

Use beans to fill a Mason Jar and group with other glass accents
Use metallic painted coffee beans to fill a Mason Jar. Group with other DIY accent pieces
Use as vase filler
Use metallic painted coffee beans as vase filler

 

2. Create a Centerpiece

Use the painted coffee beans to create a centerpiece and display on your dining table or kitchen island. Three examples are shown below.

  • Place a large candle in a small metal bucket or other container and surround with metallic coffee beans
  • Spread metallic coffee beans on a platter and place a handful of votive candles throughout
  • Fill different glass containers with metallic coffee beans and place in a line on a dining table (Depending on the occasion, you could create different colored sets of beans – red, white and blue for 4th of July OR green, red and silver or gold for Christmas).
Bucket with candle
Place a large candle in a metal bucket and surround with metallic painted coffee beans. Use as a centerpiece or accent.
Spread metallic painted coffee beans on a platter and place votive candles throughout to create an easy centerpiece for a dining table or center island
Spread metallic painted coffee beans on a platter and place votive candles throughout to create an easy centerpiece for a dining table or center island
Fill various sized glass containers with metallic coffee beans and create a long, skinny centerpiece
Fill various sized glass containers with metallic coffee beans and create a long, skinny centerpiece

 

3. Give a Gift

Wrap metallic coffee beans in a clear cellophane bag, tie with a ribbon, and bring as an inexpensive, homemade housewarming or hostess gift. Maybe I’ll make these to give hosts this year during Christmas…

Wrap metallic coffee beans in cellophane and give as a gift
Wrap metallic coffee beans in cellophane and give as a gift

 

4. Dress-Up a Fake Plant

I have some fake plants in my house. That fake ‘grass’ or dirt in them is never convincing and gets dusty and weird. One way to change that is to just cover it up with something decorative like these metallic painted coffee beans.  Would be cool in an even larger pot!

Dress up a fake plant with metallic coffee beans in the pot
Dress up a fake plant with metallic coffee beans in the pot

 

Other ideas

There are many amazing decorative ideas for plain coffee beans on the internet. Here are a few of my favorites. Any of these could use either plain coffee beans, metallic painted coffee beans, or a mixture of the two.

 

What would you do with them?

Feel free to post to your favorite link of how to use them, or a quick comment.

 

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