Easy DIY, 3 Tier Serving Tray
Easy DIY, 3 Tier Serving Tray
Sometimes I find a project and sometimes the project finds me. This project found me. Minding my own business perusing a thrift store I found this set of two galvanized tin pans. Considering they both had a hole in the center of their trays, I assumed they were once part of a larger serving tower.
I love metal and now the only question is what should I do with them? Insert a round mirror like I’ve done with a salad bowl? It would also make a very cool clock, just insert clock hands and paint on numbers. If you plugged up the hole they would also make great plant saucers. Add handles to the larger one and it would make a very fine serving tray.
All those ideas and I decide to just remake a tiered serving tray. Hey, it will be new to me!
A little research on the old internet and I found this 3 tier server currently being sold by Target for $32. There is a good chance this is what my two tins once were a part of. And, by the way, the two tins I found were only $6.
For me to make a 3 tiered server I just needed to find a top tier. What I dug out of my stash was this vintage Jane Parker pie pan. I also grabbed this spindle to separate the layers.
There were already holes in the 2 galvanized tins I purchased. I just had to cut down my spindle to an 8″ length and a 5″ length. Feel free to make your pieces as long or as short as you like.
Predrilling a hole in the center of the spindle I attached the longer piece, with a couple of washers and a long wood screw, to the larger tin (the bottom layer).
Once again I predrilled a hole in the top of the longer spindle and used a long wood screw to attach the smaller tin to the spindle.
I repeated the process with the shorter spindle and the Jane Parker pie pan that I’m using for the top tier.
The only piece that was left to attach was the shorter spindle to the smaller galvanized tin.
The screw that I used to attach the smaller galvanized tin to the larger spindle stuck out a little bit preventing the shorter spindle from sitting level. Easy enough to drill out a small hole to allow the spindle to sit flat. Instead of screwing this spindle to the pie pan, I used a generous glob of E6000 glue.
I also wanted feet on my tiered tray, these old vintage casters worked perfect. Instead of attaching with 16 screws, a couple more globs of glue and I was finished. Just needed to let the piece dry overnight.
If you don’t have casters you could also use blocks, knobs, wooden balls, whatever you have available, or just leave him footless.
The casters actually work, I would have thought they were too rusty to move. 😉
Such a quick and easy DIY. If you haven’t found galvanized trays in your travels feel free to get creative like I did with this past tired server.
As always, stay inspired.
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I would be doing a happy dance in the thrift store aisle if I came across two galvanized trays and I would have done the very same thing with them. Buying the ready-made three-tier ones here in Canada is expensive. Your DIY version amped my quest to find secondhand galvanized trays. I like your idea of putting casters on it!