Sound a little confusing?? Well just 11 days ago I posted here about a 30 minute living room make over I did. This make over was basically a furniture rearrange. During that process I realized (what I guess my husband had realized months years ago) I have TOO much brown stuff! So, the quest to bring some color into the room began!
I started with the easier and cheaper items to change. First.. the lamp.
This lamp is actually part of a set (the other being in our basement). The set was purchased at an auction for $5.00... about 4 years ago. They were originally orange, which you can see below through the chipped paint. I spray painted them then this lovely dark brown color and added the shades.
While looking for spray paint at Wal-Mart I found a section of sale spray paint and decided $2.00 a can for Bahama Sea wasn't bad. It was a little lighter than I was originally thinking, but thought it would go well with the Amy Butler fabrics I had seen online for pillows.
So, I began the process of painting the lamp. Taping off areas, wrapping the cord. Sat the lamp outside to paint and no, it was too windy.
So, into the garage we went to paint the lamp Bahama Sea by Krylon.
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| Look to the bottom left-there is a glimpse of a major drip |
Thinking this would be fine, no problem, painted the lamp. Well-no! This was an exhausting process! After the paint dried, I noticed some terrible drips. I took sand paper and sanded the drips in a downward direction. This seemed to help. I wiped everything off to make sure all dust was gone. Then I attempted to repaint the sanded sections. This made a HUGE blemish. I then waited for this to dry and attemped to sand this large blemish off as well. Then I read to use razor blade and scrape the drips off. I attempted to do this.. terrible results!
Back to Wal-Mart I went to get more paint since I was now completely out of Bahama Sea. Also there I saw bottles of gray primer spray paint on sale for $1.12 and thought this might come in handy. I ended up attempting to sand and scrape some more.. more disaster. I used the gray to paint over the blue.. no help.I think this whole process was probably even longer than I am explaining, it took quite a few days and trips to the store. I then read to use acetone (fingernail polish remover) to remove the paint. THIS WORKED! Thank goodness because I was thinking it was time to toss the lamp, I was just sick looking at it sit in the garage. The acetone quickly took off large areas of thick clumpy paint and smoothed things out. I then purchased a new can of paint, this time NOT on sale and tried Global Blue also from Krylon. I gave the lamp a nice even layer of spray paint. I really like the color! It gives a little splash of blue to the room. Hopefully we can get fabric soon and get some pillows made (I already bought $4.00 on sale pillows from Target to cover).
Some photos of the newly painted lamp (disclaimer again-I am not a photographer).
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| The original purchased paint-Bahama Sea |
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| The final color-Global Blue |
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| Well... not every time! |
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| painted lamp and fabric box |
As you can see I also added a fabric covered box. This was just a regular cardboard box, actually I think it said rotini on the side. So,I believe it came from my school's cafeteria. I covered the box using a few scraps I had. The front definitely needs a decorative something or other. I just haven't quite figured out what it should be. The gray band across the middle front will hopefully correspond with some pillow fabric one day.
So far I am pretty happy with the $8.12 update of the living room. the spray paint ($2.00 first can of spray paint + $2.00 second can of spray paint + $1.12 gray primer spray paint + $3.00 final spray paint = $8.12). The box was free, the fabric was all scraps. I don't know what will go in the box yet.. but something will.I am sure Ella will house some toys in there, or maybe photo albums could go there, or throws. I will show how I covered the box soon. I have seen this on several other blogs, if I run across the exact blog I first saw the idea on, I will be sure to share that.
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