Black, White and Glazed All Over

Remember the beautiful wood lamp and frilly white lamp shade....you probably won't recognize them now.

The $3.49 Salvation Army lamp base and $1 thrift store lamp shade had a complete makeover. The base got a couple coats of white spray paint and then a couple coats of black tinted Ralph Lauren Faux Technique glaze. The shade was stripped of it's white frilly (and quite stained) fabric and then clothed in a textured black fabric and a strip of black and white ribbon on the bottom.

Face Lift for Lamps

Project 2 is finished...well almost. I have to get more brown ribbon to line the inside top edge of the shades. Since we are having some severe weather here, I'm going to wait to go out to Hobby Lobby until later this week. The bases got a fresh coat of brown hammered metal spray paint from Rust-Oleum. The shades were covered with a bluish/aquaish/turquoisish home decor fabric. All for under $20! Oh, and excuse the wallpaper...it wants to be retired but the owners of our rental home just can't let it go!


Before...think Grandma's lamps:



The results after their face lift: