I Love Lamp...revisited...

Remember these?  On a random shopping date night the Hubs and I found some cute shades for them!  They were only $6 a piece!  Woot Woot.  We found them at none other than the beloved Ross. 

We also bought a fenial for the top at Hobby Lobby.  It was an oil rubbed bronze color so I used my handy dandy Rub N Buff and made it match the lamp.

This Little Light of Mine

I thought I was pretty much done with the guest bathroom.  The only thing left on "the list" was to find a new mirror or frame in the existing one.  Then this little lamp showed up at my house thanks to Mrs. DeVore.

She actually gave me 2 of them and one is in our bonus room on a desk my husband and I redid way before we discovered blogs.  The other one got a little makeover with some help from some trusty Silver Leaf Rub N Buff.

Now if only I could figure out what to do with all that extra cord.  Is there a way to shorten it?

Nursery Lamp

The nursery is moving right along.  We have hit our fair share of bumps in the road while redoing it but, hey, that's something that comes with DIY projects and not paying full retail for items!

I had this lamp that I bought years ago from Wal-Mart.

Since the wall color is very neutral I wanted to pep the room up with some pops of color.  Enter Krylon's Blue Ocean Breeze.

I removed the shade and taped off around where the light bulb goes.  Then I used my spray primer and let it dry.  Next I went to town with the spray paint.  I did have a few drip marks when I went back to check on it so I just sanded them out and resprayed those places.

I Love Lamp

I found these awful lamps at Goodwill and man they are heavy and ugly.  I wanted to get a matching pair of lamps for our bedroom and I thought these would do the trick.  

 

I used some Rub N Buff in Silver Leaf on them and now they are nestled on our nightstands in our mater bedroom.  They still need shades, but I'm workin' on that.

Just wanted to show you some pics of what's been going on around here.

Lampshade

This was my first ever lampshade makeover project.  I found the lamp at the estate sale I went to back in the spring and it has been sitting in my garage ever since.  I bought some fabric from my local fabric store and was ready to get to work.  The shade that came with it sucked.  Don't get me wrong, it's a great lamp shade as far as shading the lamp but when it came time to put the fabric on it, it sucked (no other words to describe it). 

I felt like doing this about part way through the project.  I don't know why it stressed me out so much!

I used some spray adhesive and sprayed it on the shade and then I smoothed the fabric over it.  I did it just a section at a time to make sure the adhesive wouldn't dry before I got to it.   

While the adhesive was drying I taped off around the bottom of the actual lamp (not the shade) to spray paint the base.  It was originally gold, I painted it black, didn't like that, painted it silver, didn't like that, and then finally went with a champagne color (close to gold but not so bold) which I thought really accented the fabric.  Whew, I'm not picky or indecisive at all (poor hubby)!

I was so glad to have the project finished and my first lamp redo done!  I don't really have a place for it in my house so it's in the booth just waiting for the right person to take it home!