Here is another little preview of the bedroom. One of my bird lamps. I bought two of them at Goodwill for our nightstands. Probably not for everyone, but I love them.
Before
After
Full disclosure, these lamps came with some lampshades that I thought I would simply recover and glue ribbon trim on. Hahaha that was so funny when I thought I could recover lamp shades.
Complete disaster ending in my fingers covered in fabric glue and throwing the shade on the ground in disgust. Bought new shades at Target instead.
UPDATE: I've gotten some e-mails asking how I painted these. All I did was wipe them down with a damp cloth, tape off the light bulb socket area, and spray paint. I used about three coats. The spray paint was Valspar from Lowes.
I love that blue! What color spray paint is that?
ReplyDeleteI wasn't so sure about the bird lamps, but they are really cute now!
Looks great! you have a good eye for yucky things and turning them into beautiful.
ReplyDeleteI would love to see pictures of the tragic discarded shades...lol
Can we seriously discuss the amazingness of this lamp! I LOVE it!
ReplyDeleteI have to admit I like hearing about your failures because it makes you human.
The lamps are sweet! No one in the world has the same lamps as you :)
ReplyDeleteYou did wonders with those circa 1981 home office lamps. You are just a wonder. period. :)
ReplyDeleteThese are tremendously cool. Yeah...re-covering fabric lampshades sounds like craft torture to me. Good call going to Target.
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