What do you do with a lamp shade that is faded or has water stains? You could throw it out.
But if you are like me and hate to throw out something that is still performing its function but just in an ugly way, you could put fabric over it, add pieces fabric to it, or you could paint it.
I opted for the paint after playing around with fabric for a while.
I didn't really plan my project. I was just doing what came to me when I started painting this shade. I brought out some of the highlighting colors from our basement which was mostly shades of brown but with light touches of orange, baby blue, maroon, yellow and green.
I camouflaged the water stains on the shade with the paint. The shade was white and I used that as my canvas and didn't paint over all of it. I liked how when the light is on, the colors glow and the outlines of the design show up dramatically.
On the mirror frame, I repainted it over a previously painted project I'd done with my daughter when she was little and we lived in a funky row house in Baltimore where we'd painted the exposed water pipes in multicolored stripes and the stair risers too (pictures will come when and if I find them).
When my daughter saw me repainting the old mirror frame she was disappointed. I hadn't realized how much it had meant to her that we'd painted it together. So that was a bittersweet moment.
I will also have to post the painted hand mirrors that my daughter and I used to paint for a friend's store in the Fells Point area of Baltimore, called Funky Fish. We painted dozens of them, and even named them.
Here is the mirror. And if you look close into the mirror you can see the lamp reflected.
I sanded down the paint from my daughter's and my previous work and painted off white over the entire thing. Then I just went with a theme, and colors, that I used on the lamp.
But if you are like me and hate to throw out something that is still performing its function but just in an ugly way, you could put fabric over it, add pieces fabric to it, or you could paint it.
I opted for the paint after playing around with fabric for a while.
I didn't really plan my project. I was just doing what came to me when I started painting this shade. I brought out some of the highlighting colors from our basement which was mostly shades of brown but with light touches of orange, baby blue, maroon, yellow and green.
I camouflaged the water stains on the shade with the paint. The shade was white and I used that as my canvas and didn't paint over all of it. I liked how when the light is on, the colors glow and the outlines of the design show up dramatically.
On the mirror frame, I repainted it over a previously painted project I'd done with my daughter when she was little and we lived in a funky row house in Baltimore where we'd painted the exposed water pipes in multicolored stripes and the stair risers too (pictures will come when and if I find them).
When my daughter saw me repainting the old mirror frame she was disappointed. I hadn't realized how much it had meant to her that we'd painted it together. So that was a bittersweet moment.
I will also have to post the painted hand mirrors that my daughter and I used to paint for a friend's store in the Fells Point area of Baltimore, called Funky Fish. We painted dozens of them, and even named them.
Here is the mirror. And if you look close into the mirror you can see the lamp reflected.
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