Find out how to flip a dated brass piece right into a Restoration {Hardware}-inspired French sconce utilizing paint samples and jewellery beads.
Apparently it’s at all times Reverse Day in my world.
(Did you ever play Reverse Day as a child? I at all times argued with my little brother that if it was Reverse Day then it will be the other of Reverse Day, which is Not-Reverse Day. Thoughts blowing philosophy from an 8 year-old, I do know.)
In any case, apparently in my reverse mind, I paint non-brass issues to seem like brass and brass issues to seem like one thing else.
Case and level are these thrifted brass sconces I discovered final week for $3 every.
I’ve painted a lightweight fixture to seem like aged brass, white mirrors to seem like aged brass, however if you give me precise aged brass, I am going, “Nahhh… paint them completely different.” Makes complete sense.
So for this month’s Trash to Treasure Tuesday, that’s simply what I did. (You’ll be able to see what my different T2T blogger mates remodeled on the backside of this put up too.)
I’d been trying to find some fairly French sconces for our clean eating room wall to go on both aspect of our window, and I believed these $3 ones might actually be one thing.
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1. I painted the sconces throughout first with two coats of the Fusion Mineral Paint in Uncooked Silk and let dry.
2. So as to add extra depth, I dry-brushed on high of the dried white coat utilizing the Sterling paint. (In the event you aren’t accustomed to dry brushing, simply dip the tip of your brush in paint, wipe off any extra on a dry paper towel, and brush the “dry” brush on the sconce. It provides just a little getting older impact.)
3. Then, to make them look vintage, I dry-brushed with the darkish wax.
4. Simply so as to add just a little further element, I reduce a strand of glass teardrop beads and painted them individually utilizing the identical course of I did on the sconces- white, grey dry-brush, darkish wax dry-brush. (Or when you wished the sconce to look extra glam, depart them unpainted.)
5. To connect the beads to the arms of the sconce, I threaded the beads with some jewellery wire and tied them onto the sconces. I snipped the surplus wire as soon as they had been connected.
And ta da!
I already had the entire paint and wax leftover from earlier furnishings tasks, so all I needed to pay for had been the sconces and glass beads. $8 for vintage French impressed sconces isn’t too dangerous, huh?
They give the impression of being far more costly than $8, when you ask me.
They added the right refined element to the partitions on both aspect of our eating room window.
I nonetheless plan on taking down the prevailing eating room chandelier for one thing else, however we’ve been fairly distracted with the kitchen refresh, lounge refresh, and nursery planning these days.
Possibly I ought to simply discover a brass one and paint it just like the sconces. Ya assume? Or perhaps persist with aged brass. See? Right here I am going once more.
You’ll be able to see the remainder of this month’s Trash to Treasure transformations beneath for extra thrifty concepts:
(Clockwise from high left):
Prodigal Pieces | Confessions of a Serial DIYer | Girl in the Garage | Artsy Chicks Rule
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