When I was on my honeymoon, we always did a check to make sure we had everything when we left the hotel and my husband would always say "and this lamp" after we listed everything we were bringing! Apparently its from some movie, it even got a laugh out of one of our tour guides on the manta ray night time snorkel (totes worth it!). Anyway, it made me laugh every time and that's most likely why he kept saying it.
Today, I am going to tell you about a DIY project I did to upgrade an old ugly lamp to an awesome lamp! About 8 years ago, I moved into my own apartment and did the living room in a peacock motif. While I still have many of those decor items, my style has changed a lot and my blue, purple,green,brown(really?brown?),white lamp needed to be discarded....or so I thought!
Here is a photo of the original lamp
...basically. I didn't have a before photo, so this is the best I can do. The colors of the shades aren't the same, but you get it. It was COOL at the time and cheap - which also makes me wonder...why don't I just fucking through it away and BUY a new one? Maybe it's nostalgia, it was my first lamp and it went so well with my peacock decor and brown couch. Maybe I just want to get crafty.
I wanted something that looked vintage and clean.
First, I took off all of the shades and removed the lightbulbs.
Then, I sanded the entire thing. No, I don't know what type of sandpaper, it was literally sitting on a shelf in view so I just grabbed that one. If it wasn't there, I probably wouldn't have sanded at all.
I put down some newspaper and went for it! I bought some matte black spray paint on Amazon. linked here!
I sprayed the shit out of the lamp, from the base to the top. I actually took about 2 weeks doing this because I would spray a coat and "let it dry" but really just get distracted and never get back to it. I did 3 coats total, and you could probably let it dry for 2 hour between coats if you wanted to complete it in less than 2 weeks lol. Make sure you don't lay it on too think or else there will be drips like mine did because I did decide to do one coat while I had been day drinking and that ended up ruining one whole "arm" with drippies all down it.
I also bought some Edison bulbs which if you don't know what those are they are basically bulbs that you can see the inside wires of and tend to be more of an amber or yellow color rather than bright white. They are pretty popular in hipster breweries right now. Apparently, they resemble the ones Edison made 100 years ago! They generally have an elongated shape, but I bought round ones to be different! Actually, the elongated ones would have looked stupid. The round ones are about twice the size of a regular sized lightbulb. Here is a link!
The end result....
The lights are a bit brighter than I had hoped, but I absolutely love it and will actually keep it around now! It cost me a total of $30 and I have an extra light bulb just in case:)
TaTa for now!
Today, I am going to tell you about a DIY project I did to upgrade an old ugly lamp to an awesome lamp! About 8 years ago, I moved into my own apartment and did the living room in a peacock motif. While I still have many of those decor items, my style has changed a lot and my blue, purple,green,brown(really?brown?),white lamp needed to be discarded....or so I thought!
Here is a photo of the original lamp
I wanted something that looked vintage and clean.
First, I took off all of the shades and removed the lightbulbs.
Then, I sanded the entire thing. No, I don't know what type of sandpaper, it was literally sitting on a shelf in view so I just grabbed that one. If it wasn't there, I probably wouldn't have sanded at all.
I put down some newspaper and went for it! I bought some matte black spray paint on Amazon. linked here!
I sprayed the shit out of the lamp, from the base to the top. I actually took about 2 weeks doing this because I would spray a coat and "let it dry" but really just get distracted and never get back to it. I did 3 coats total, and you could probably let it dry for 2 hour between coats if you wanted to complete it in less than 2 weeks lol. Make sure you don't lay it on too think or else there will be drips like mine did because I did decide to do one coat while I had been day drinking and that ended up ruining one whole "arm" with drippies all down it.
I also bought some Edison bulbs which if you don't know what those are they are basically bulbs that you can see the inside wires of and tend to be more of an amber or yellow color rather than bright white. They are pretty popular in hipster breweries right now. Apparently, they resemble the ones Edison made 100 years ago! They generally have an elongated shape, but I bought round ones to be different! Actually, the elongated ones would have looked stupid. The round ones are about twice the size of a regular sized lightbulb. Here is a link!
The end result....
TaTa for now!
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