A week or so ago, I bought a plain candlestick lamp with plainwhite shade at a friends indoor yardsale for $5. Even though
I've been meaning to since I got it,I forgot to take a "before"
picture before I broke out the paint today.
It looked a lot like this though.------------------------------>
I tried to decide what color to paint this lamp - I'd seen several pictures online of painted lamps and fell in love - and finally went with silver, knowing it could paint it again in the future if the color gets old or begins to clash with the room. So I headed out for some spray paint and ended up picking up some blue ribbon for the shade.
Here is a picture of the lamp after a few layers of paint.
And below are two pictures of the lamp with the ribboned-out lamp shade.
Total cost: $15 ($5 for lamp, $4 for paint, $3 for ribbon, $3 for light bulb.)
I'm planning to use this lamp in my "new" bedroom (see last post).
Look for it in the next bedroom update! :)
