Spray Paint Those Outdoor Lights

by Karrah @ Mrs Do It Herself

Do you have ugly outdoor lights? Mine were an awful, beat up, brassy hot-mess. They also blended in with the rock on my house, so I decided to whip out the spray paint and give these lights a face-lift!

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How to Spray Paint Outdoor Lights

Step 1 – Clean your light! Very important, you want to have a clean surface so that the paint can properly adhere.

Step 2 – Prep the area – Turn off the power at the breaker box to your light, we don’t need any unexpected shocks out of this project. Then it’s time to tape everything off. Since I could not remove the brass beauty from the stone on our house, I had to simply tape off the glass and protect the stone from any splatter paint. You can see here where I attempted to use some brown craft paper to protect the glass and tape around it. That ended up being A LOT OF WORK. So for the other sides, I just used the painter’s tape on the whole piece of glass.

Step 3: Protect the surroundings. I tucked brown craft paper under the brass plate that's on the stone. Then secured it with the tape. For the bottom of the light, I shoved some paper towels and brown craft paper in the opening at the bottom...I even left the light bulb in.

Step 4: I decided to take this lovely brassy light to a nice oil rubbed bronze. I used Rustoleum Paint and Primer Spray Paint. I love this stuff. It’s best to do very light sprays to avoid the dreaded drip… you can always add more layers.

I let this dry for about 30 minutes then removed the tape and paper. I learned a lesson the hard way when I let another light sit overnight… it was terrible to get off!

Here is the final product! How great does that oil-rubbed bronze look up against the stone! It really pops and the brass is completely gone!

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Hannah V on Oct 23, 2015
Looks so much better!

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- Karrah @ Mrs Do It Herself on Oct 23, 2015
  Thanks Hannah! I think so too!!
  
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Lori on Oct 19, 2018

looks amazing! thank you for this. My house screams brass, door hinges, lighting, etc. I am going to try. Wish me luck. Lori

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