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Cosmetic Surgery for Dated Buffet Lamps
by
Kim Kline
(IC: homeowner)
I found these powdery-blue, metal-shaded buffet lamps while treasure-hunting at my local used furniture shop. They are in perfect condition but so old-fashioned! Into the furniture operating room for a facelift they go!
I could see where I wanted these to go the second I spotted them! This was the perfect chance to use my very favorite embossed paper from my paper stash.
Pattern piece on the left. I traced and cut a couple dozen pieces from the embossed paper.
I secured each piece to the metal shade with Mod Podge (I used matte finish for the entire piece).
Shade is now entirely covered with embossed paper. I repeated with both shades.
After the Mod Podge dried, I painted the entire shade and base with this black acrylic paint.
Painted the lamp base with the same black acrylic paint. After dry time, I cut out and decoupaged some of the embossed flowers into the base of the lamp.
Time to distress the shade with the same gold paint. I dry-brushed it over the black paint with a stencil brush and rubbed hard!
Distressing technique over black paint.
I repeated the dry-brushing technique over the cut out/decoupaged details on the lamp bases.
These are the final results!
Lamp 2
This was a really fun project!
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Published January 22nd, 2016 10:32 AM
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Debi @ Debi Collinson Interiors on Jan 24, 2016LOVE it! Wasn't so sure when I started seeing the pictures but the final picture - WOW!!!
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