Hi there friends,
As promised, I’m back with another project this week. This old shelf lamp has been living in my garage waiting for my attention…
Lamp Makeover – Before
What you’ll notice (besides the fact that the garage is truly a project and storage space and not used for parking our cars) is that there are three distinct areas on this lamp that needed redoing: the wood base, the gold metal parts and the white metal part. I decided that a gray and white color scheme would work well since this is probably going to end up in D’s home office. I used Benjamin Moore Wrought Iron Paint on the wood base (after lightly sanding)…
BM Wrought Iron – two coats
I also sanded between coats to get a smooth finish. This may be the new paint color for my dining room walls…luv luv!
After the base was good and dry, I covered it in plastic to work on the white metal part and sprayed on two coats of Rust-oleum Dark Bronze…
Rust-oleum Dark Bronze
Once that was dry, I used this high-tech method to spray paint the gold metal with Rust-oleum Titanium Silver…
Finally, when all the painted areas were dry, I added a simple white lampshade with a gray ribbon that I found at HomeGoods as a final touch…
Shelf Lamp Makeover: After
Shelf Lamp Makeover: After
And here’s one more of the before and after, side by side…
This was a straight forward project but it took a few days because of paint drying time. Of course the hot and humid days we’ve had this summer didn’t help…not that I’m complaining.
I wish I had a place in the abode for this lamp because I love how it turned out and it’s well-made and sturdy. Hopefully it will be well utilized in its new home.
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Be well,
Eileen
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