Anyhow, this poor thing has travelled with me to 4 homes now, and has been living the last few years, stuffed in the back of closets. Unfortunately, it just wasn't working for me, style wise. However, it worked perfectly and I knew something fun could come of it!
I had been seeing white lamps with everything from ceramic animals to artichokes everywhere lately, so I thought it might be cute to do a campy, chubby little cherub lamp. My vision was a white base and black shade!
Two days later, I am loving this lamp SOOOO much more now!
1very light coat of Krylon white primer and 3 coats of Krylon Satin finish spray pain in Bright White and I'm a happy girl.
The only thing I am NOT sold on, is the shade I had:
The shade is too long, and you don't get a good view of the clear crystal part in the middle of the lamp, which is pretty neat. Now I know that I didn't paint the gold hardware pieces, an oversight I tell you. Plus, taping them off when I did the white, ended up with the gold flaking off in places... but I actually kind of like it. It makes it look a lot more vintage (but gorgeous now) and not so stark and brand new!
What do you think, a better fit for the base?
So, for the meantime, I am on the lookout for a shade shaped like the white one, in black.
ca-ute!!! I love the mix of black and white, so the black shade does it for me. But really, either look amazing.
ReplyDeleteGreat fix!
wow those are gorgeous shades!!! i hope you don't mind - i linked to your blog in a post of mine -http://floopkate.blogspot.com/2010/06/mmm-decoration.html. i just love your stuff! xoxo
ReplyDeleteI like the black shade better.
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