Hello!
Thank you for making yesterday’s post so much fun, y’all! I love it when we can connect in the comment section and my blog feels more like a place of conversation than me just talking at you. 🙂
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On the home front, exciting things are happening in my home office today. Brian the Carpenter is going to help me start attaching old (painted) wood to the wall behind my desk! I’m so excited. I’ll share pics and updates on Instagram if you’d like to follow along.
And now that the chandelier above my desk has been moved to our dining room, I’m thinking about what kind of fixture I’d like to use up there.
(That’s the fixture that we removed to use over our dining room table. There’s just a hole in the ceiling there now.)
I started to toy around with the idea of giving an inexpensive brass chandelier a faux finish makeover to cut costs, and I went to Pinterest to seek inspiration. Here are seven of the best tutorials I found.
1. Jennifer from Dear Lillie:
Such a gorgeous finish she was able to easily create!
2. Amy’s from Maison Decor:
Such a pretty pewter-like finish!
3. Vanessa’s from At The Picket Fence:
Absolutely stunning!
5. Diane’s from In My Own Style:
Here’s another close-up of the incredible finish she created with paint:
SO good!
6. Teryn from Vintage Romance Style:
I’d sure love the see a shot of the whole fixture. What an impressive and thrifty makeover!
7. Rachel from Maison De Pax:
Such a dreamy finish! 😀
Have you ever painted a light fixture to give it a whole new look? I’d love to hear about it if you have!
Layla
I think Diane’s is my favorite. I love this idea and am thinking verdigris…
These are amazing. I have a surfeit of chandeliers, so I’m going to try these.
I have repurposed one…many years ago! I painted it black matte and purchased new holders for all the candle light sticks! I don’t know whatever happened to that light 🤷♀️
All the inspirations you found are amazing, BUT I have to say the Diane “in my own style” made my heart go pitter patter 😉
Can’t wait to see your decision it will be amazing!!!!!
Lisa💟☮️💟
I have found no matter what the light fixture looks like if you just paint the candles black it makes it look much more pricey and adds a new look to the entire fixture!
Oh, wow! That’s a great tip, Dianne! Thank you for sharing that here! 🙂
I have used the first tutorial you posted. Mine turned out darker, but I love it! It was such an easy an inexpensive way to get a vintage look.
Ooh- I bet darker is super pretty too! I’m so glad you were able to give it a new lease on life, Angie! 🙂
Thank you so much for this post! My favorite is Jennifer’s. I always love her style!! We will be selling our home soon and this gave me the idea to paint the brass parts on our ceiling fans.
Enjoy your day with Sonny! I so love his smile!!
Thank you, Lin! I hope you have a happy Tuesday, too! 😀
We had a gold chandelier and I just spray painted it oil rubbed bronze, I loved it.
I am somewhat curious if the only lighting you will have in your home office is whatever chandelier will be above? In terms of task lighting, especially working at night, will that be enough or will you have a table lamp as well? I have found overhead lighting too harsh over a desk.
I painted a light fixture Matt black and used 2 galvanized olive buckets upside down as the shades…..I’m ready to change things now but it’s been fine over the kitchen table.
I can’t wait to see the walls done and how this progresses. You have way more patience than me my friend, I am the “I want it all done now” kind of gal. 😀
Oh, yes. I will definitely have lamps. To be honest, I probably won’t turn the chandelier on as much as the lamps! 😀 And I’m with you. I want it done now too. Unfortunately funds and time haven’t been available til now, so I’ve just had to (impatiently) wait- LOL! 😀
I haven’t yet!! I’ve also been researching for my dining room- crazy how many of those brass lights are so similar! I think I’m going to do what young house love did and try to find a large drum shade to go around my light- IKEA has one- so I’m waiting to paint until after we make an IKEA trip- don’t want to have to re-hang the chandy twice!!
I looooove the idea of adding a drum shade! That’ll be so sharp, friend!
I was certainly interested to find this timely post. We just moved in April to a house built in the 1990’s. I only brought my Chandelier with me. All of the other lighting fixtures here were probably fine when they were new but they have….brass. We already replaced one ceiling fan with a white one & instead of the frosted globe lights that came with it – purchased clear ones with flecks of glass…in the glass – it made an amazing difference.
We have 3 brass ceiling fans, 2 brass vanity bar lights & 5 other light fixtures to replace plus the pair that go on either side of the garage. We spent hours searching for ceiling fans that would coordinate with the lights we had chosen. The lights all came from a collection so were easier to choose, knowing they would flow.
I had planned to spray the lights I coming down with a spray paint my hair dresser used. I have a younger friend on a tight budget & thought I would offer them to her and if she wants them, we can do it together. She just moved to a large house with all brass fixtures. It would cost a lot for her to replace light fixtures.
I don’t think a ceiling fan could be spray painted because of the base part.
Has anyone ever successfully saved a ceiling fan with brass on it? We will have 4
I loved seeing these different choices especially as we are just dealing with lights ourselves
Thanks, Layla!!
Susan,
Yes, you can spray a ceiling fan!
I done it two ways in the past. The first way was taking the whole fixture down and disassembling it then painting it, including the base. The second way was leaving the fixture base intact with the ceiling but taking off everything else I could. I bagged and taped the parts that I didn’t want to be painted and sprayed away.
Pinterest has several examples as well as Googling, “painting a ceiling fan”.
You can do it and it’ll be fantastic I’m sure!
Thanks for the info! I’d like a new chandelier over my dining table but nothing has caught my eye so far (at least, nothing in my price range!). You have compiled some great ideas.
Yes I have. Mine are 20 years old. Im wanting something different but for now, it looks better. I sprayed them with oil rubbed bronze. I painted all my cupboards white (did a huge research on pinterest and then talked to our paint dealer. Took 6 wks as I was also working. And all the hinges and screws were washed and spray painted oil rubbed bronze. and then I spotted the ugly light fixtures…ahah. I did them too. Theyre very nice but someday I want a different style. These ones look like (nook) salad bowl and (diningroom) all the salad small bowls.
Layla, I think what ever you choose, will be wonderfu! I have two chandeliers that I ordered from Chandeliers.com, I have one problem with their crystals (see Dear Lily), the little connectors are brass colored, I took every one of mine apart and spray painted them all silver! I was impressed with Dianne, it looks she made her strands of crystals, from crystal beads! As always, I enjoy all your posts! Debbie~
I had to laugh! I was a teen. Mom let me make over a bedroom not in use. I spray painted everything I could and Mom did not say a thing!!!! It was a rather bright blue. I sprayed her true brass lamp. And she left it like that for years until someone used spray paint for a light antique brass. 🙀 I redid my table chandelier using wire cages and some Christmas antique looking large flat etched crystals. I still like it but it does not follow the norm. I’ve even used craft paint on a lamp –no priming–and it worked just fine. I achieved the look I wanted and I did not have rags on hand so I simply used Kleenex. Hey I got that layered look as in several of the lights. But you know I must go back to my first love and say I loved the grave woman who spray painted it–glass and all 😁
I have not done this, but have wanted to in our old house. I loved the shape of the chandelier but not the color. We had installed all brushed nickel lighting, and I was simply bored with it. Luckily, about the time I was ready to do it, we decided to sell! So I saved myself the work by moving! 🙂
I like the first photo (for you) because it is similar in shade to the one you moved. If I’m correct, they will be in roughly the same sight line, right? But I like Diane’s layers on hers that makes it seem very old and heavy.
What did we do before Pinterest? I guess we clipped magazine pages! Ha!