Giving an Outdated Ceiling Fan a Little Face Lift!
After spending months trying to find a new ceiling fan for our family room, I finally just threw up my hands and said, "I have nothing to lose by spray painting it". If it worked, I would save some money and if it didn't I wouldn't have lost out on anything as I wanted to change it out anyway! Win/win in my books!!
There wasn't anything wrong with this fan....it worked great, I am just tired of all that brass!
I will admit that I was a little nervous about the spray paint getting into the mechanics through the oval mesh. I tried adding a little piece of tape to each, but after the third one I realized that I would do more harm than good as the mesh could rip.
I protected everything else with grocery bags tucked into each crevice.....
I couldn't be happier with the results. Saved a ton of money, as the can of oil rubbed bronze spray paint only cost me $6. Want to see more photos and a little more in depth on the ins and outs of painting light fixtures come on over to the blog.
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Yes I’ve been hoping somebody would post something about this so I’m definitely going to try it
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Where do you get the paint and it says bronze but looks black
How hard was it to get off the ceiling? I like this idea, but am not sure how to get the fan to where I can paint it....
Super...work! What brand of paint did you use. I am so afraid of something going on fire. Also, how long until you used it again? Thank u ...for your direction Sue