How To Hand Paint A Lamp Shade

What do you practise if you have a lampshade that is just the right size, just non quite the right colour? Do y'all throw it out? No! Yous pigment information technology! Hither's how to paint a lampshade!

This was such a fun little DIY. And piece of cake besides. I was giving this corner of my living room a little face-lift a couple of weeks ago (Yes, yes. I'll show you lot real soon!) and my obviously one-time off-white, kinda stained, zero special lamp shade really started to bug me once more.

A few hours later, when I was sitting in the parking lot at Kennedy's schoolhouse, I found myself dreaming upward ideas for irresolute information technology upward a bit. As usual, the simplest, easiest idea won out. I wasn't certain if it was going to work, but I could ever simply cover information technology in fabric. Or use one of the umpteen lamp shades hiding out in my basement.

I asked Kennedy if she would help me and, of course, she agreed! What kid wouldn't desire to do something ridiculous like paint their mom's lampshade?

Tin can Yous Really Paint a Lampshade?

We used a sample pot of regular wall paint that I had in a Martha Stewart color called Crevecoeur.

We basically merely slopped it on until we thought it looked pretty good. All in all it took near 20 minutes. Notice the fiddling piece of after-school granola bar sitting on the coffee table there.

Here's the trick: When y'all retrieve it looks expert and all the spots are covered, y'all put the shade back on the lamp, turn information technology on, and continue painting information technology until no more light shines through. It was incredibly like shooting fish in a barrel to get good coverage, actually. You tin see that after our initial covering, in that location were only a few little areas that needed actress paint!

The Finished Painted Lampshade

I absolutely dear this lamp in the corner of our room now. It focusses the light perfectly and the dark shade actually classes things upwards quite a scrap.

More photos of the whole corner refresh coming upwards soon!