Here she is in all her glory. I have hated this ugly brassy light fixture in my kitchen since I moved in 4 years ago. I finally got around to fixing her up with a new outfit. I chose a sleek black, mostly because I could not find oil rubbed bronze spray paint. Anyone know where to get that stuff? Home Depot and Lowe’s do not carry it.
- I started off by nicely asking my hubs over a period of days to to take the fixture down. I had previously purchased the paint and primer (both Rust-oleum brand) shown below.
3. Once the primer was dry (follow the directions on the can) I added a coat of Satin Black. I laid the rings on some newspaper, but found that it stuck and left little pieces, so I moved to the garden ornament/paint can drying method.
4. I hung the actual fixture from a tree in my backyard and coated it with a coat of primer and two coats of black. Here is my disclaimer: follow the directions for drying times on your paint. I am lazy and did not care if I obliterated this ugly piece so I just waited until it looked and felt dry to add more coats and it did start to crackle a little in a few places (Mostly on the circle that attaches to the ceiling). Lucky for me, I they don’t really show and kind of add a bit of a worn look so yahoo for me.
5. Once it is all painted and dry, start reassembly. Put the rings back on the nice clean glass and once again start the requests to hang it. This time won’t take as many requests since your hubs has been eating with no light above the table. Even little son wanted in on the action. This is the one time he got to stand on the kitchen table without getting in trouble.
6. Hubs had a bit of a rough time with this at one point, so some of the paint on the chain rubbed off. Lucky for me, I chose to use black paint so these scratches and dings were easily touched up with a sharpie. I am so ghetto. 😉 My hubs suggested black finger nail polish which is a great idea had I been goth and kept black fingernail polish on hand at all times. I will be picking some up when it rolls out for Halloween just for times like these.
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Awesome job!!!
That is a fantastic idea!. The perfect in between solution if a person is looking for an upgrade but doesn’t want to be stuck with the gold look.
Fabulous! My dining room chandy needs a seriously new dress too, but I think it will take some major nagging to get the hubs to take it down! Maybe I’ll show him this post to inspire him. 🙂
Fantastic transformation–I cant believe the difference!
It turned out great! Wonder if I could do the same kind of thing with a white-ish ceiling fan, turning it to black?
It turned out great! God bless black spray-paint!
Oh, gosh…so much better! It’s like a brand new fixture. Great job!
Nancy
It looks great! it’s a brand new piece! Jen
Thanks for joining the party too! Love your make over! 😉
I love that black! And yes, sharpie and black nail polish are perfect ‘touch up’ tools!
Hi! I have that exact same light fixture. So ugly! How do you take down the light?
Jen-
There is a ring at the top of the chain. You need to unscrew this away from the circle on the ceiling. Then there will be a bunch of electrical wires you will have to untwist and a couple of screws to take out. My hubs did it, but this is what I saw of it. ;)Hope that helps!
Haha! I have a VERY similar light fixture that I’ve been fantasizing about doing this to. Now I’m feeling extra inspired to get to it!
I found the oil rubbed bronze paint at K-Mart of all places!
Looks great! Definitely updates the light quite a bit.
I love this! This is what I did in my house, Home Depot had some lights marked down significantly that were what I wanted, but were the wrong and mismatched colors, so I bought them and got some of the textured spray-paint that looks like hammered metal and now they all match and look better than the more expensive lights that actually matched!
On my light that hangs over my table, I loved except that parts of the metal didn’t at all match the overall look of the light. It was really weird looking. So I got the light (75% off, apparently everyone else disliked it, too!) and spray-painted the odd colored parts and you’d never know it didn’t come that way!
Looks great! Thanks for sharing that! I love paint.
Thank you soooo much for posting this. I’ve got several of these incredibly ugly fixtures and now I finally know what to do with them. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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Great job on the light fixture. You can find the oil rubbed bronze at Amazon.
Thanks for the great ideas!!! This is sooo good-I’m sharing it with my neighborhood friends on facebook:) Yahoo!!
We have that same light fixture and I recently grabbed a can of spray paint and changed ours too. I couldn’t take it anymore. I ended up doing a satin nickel finish instead of my original oiled bronze idea. I also painted my knobs on the kitchen cabinets and drawers.
beautiful job! that ugly brass fixture hangs above my kitchen table too. You may see me at Home Depot tomorrow…
thats amazing. If you are interested in lighting you should check out http://sabineslightfixtures.com. They do interesting things with lighting and light fixtures.
This is a great tutorial. I love the additional updates throughout the post about getting DH to take the thing down. I am going to be trying this with a light fixture in my bathroom. Cheers!