Any vintage shakers can be used for this tutorial and in just over an hour your shakers will be as good as new.

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What you'll need:

• Toothpicks
• Ceramic salt and pepper shakers
• High-gloss white spray paint
• Testors Metallic Gold enamel paint
• 2 dowels
• Jar of beans or sand

Step 1: Insert toothpicks into salt and pepper holes: this prevents the paint from clogging them. Remove corks or stoppers.

Step 2: Working in a well-ventilated area, spray-paint your shakers until no trace of the old colour shows through.

Step 3: Remove the toothpicks from the holes, then let the shakers dry completely.

Step 4: Shake up the jar of enamel paint, then dip the bottom of each ceramic shaker in the paint until it's covered to your liking. (If the shaker's bottom is larger than the opening of the paint jar, dispense the paint into a disposable cup with a larger mouth first, then dip as described.)

Step 5: Position each shaker on the end of a dowel or skewer (using the shaker's refill hole) and stick the other end of the skewer in a jar of beans or sand to hold it in place while the paint dries. The enamel paint will collect a bit at the bottom, so wait at least two days before staging the shakers' dinnertime debut.