Monday, February 1, 2010

Budget decor: Parisian inspired lamp

Yes, blogosphere, I have been neglectful and I'm sorry. The thing is, I've been working very hard helping Mr. Peanutbutter with the upcoming open-house for his gallery/venue space The Bleu Monkey. Lots to do before this weekend (let's just say it needs a woman's touch).

We're working within a very tight budget, and I've been decorating the place with transformed alley finds and thrift-store buys. Today I finished this great table lamp that I thought I'd share with you.

Mr. Peanutbutter had found this very cool, but rusty old lamp. I didn't get a photo before I painted it, but here it is after a couple coats of black satin spray paint.
I bought a very simple white lampshade at a local decorator discount store, which I taped off with painter's tape and then spray painted gold.
I spaced each stripe with another strip of tape to make my stripes even. The lampshade that I used was a little bigger at the bottom than it was at the top, so I had to add a little more space at the bottom of each stripe. After I was done, I 'eyeballed' the whole thing and moved the stripes a little to make it all straight and even.


Next, was the spray paint. I just used plain old gold metallic spray paint and it worked just fine.

Tada!

This project has been listed on these fabulous blogs:

The Shabby Chic Cottage
Between naps on the porch
Beyond the Picket Fence

14 comments:

  1. Very very cute!! I love what a good can of spray paint can do.

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  2. Ohhh, that came out great...♥ it!

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  3. I couldn't picture the result you were going for - it's adorable. I'd like to see it in the spot you made it for.

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  4. Just darling :) very nice redo!

    ~ Emily N. from "too Blessed to Stress"

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  5. If I can remember to take pics of the open house, I'll be sure to post them!

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  6. Very cute and the shade is so fabulous! thanks for linking up. Would love to have you join me again this week.

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  7. This is very nicely done. Thanks for sharing

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  8. I love the shade. Was it hard to get the tape evenly spaced around? It turned out beautifully.

    I'm hosting a link party and I'd love to have you come over and link this up!

    http://mybackyardeden.blogspot.com

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  9. The lamp is gorgeous! What a great transformation. Way to go.
    Midge

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  10. I love the stripes on the shade, what a neat idea.

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  11. i love anything stripe! great job. mishelle

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  12. I really love the striped shade!

    Thanks for linking up to Make it Yours day! I look forward to seeing more of your great ideas!

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