Rescue Mission

It all started with this a cute little retro coffee cart that was found at a garage sale... $3:

& after a little Rust-Oleum primer and some Krylon Blue Ocean Breeze spray paint we have this:

Now, the chrome handles were a bit harder to work with... I wanted to try to preserve the chrome finish so I had taped off where I didn't want paint. Then, my lovely father introduced me to this product, Brasso. I hadn't ever heard of such a thing. I think it is made out of ammonia because it smelled like hair dye to me. we started out with rusty chrome like this:

We scrubbed the Brasso on the rusty handles with all our might & ended up with this:

Amazing transformation eh? But you haven't seen anything yet... Here she is in her natural habitat :)

(i decided to try to be artsy. I think with some editing this could look awesome)