Painted Vintage Lamp diy

When I saw the base of this lamp I thought it was a trophy in the wrong area of the store...then I realized that it was a lamp and had to touch it to get a sense of that bubbly centre part! As soon as I realized the bubbly part was glass and the base indeed marble I knew I could clean of the years of grime and bring it to light...life!

This project just takes the most basic of electricity skills. You can even look up rewiring a lamp to learn.

I took it apart right down to the bones, the cord even had to be cleaned. I laid everything out to first be spray primed, then ready for it's feature colour. Because this lamp is for my daughters room and I wanted to keep the vintage-y feel I went with a blue in latex paint.

Oh! Be sure to take some good photo's it will help when it's time to reassemble!

Once the lamp body was done I couldnt help but start brainstorming and get creative and have fun with the shade! I found some fabric tucked away with birds which had the blue I had chosen for the lamp body, lucky find.

A glue gun and permanent marker just might help pull this idea off!

After I carefully cut out the fabric birds they were sprayed with fabric adhesive onto the shade. Then I went around the outline with glue gun. This serves double duty, to keep the edges securely stuck on the shade and make these birds POP! I went over the dried glue outline with my black marker.

Not done with the marker yet!!! I drew on branches to the underside of the lamp again with permanent marker. Awe....these birds are visiting!

The underside branches do actually show very faintly like a watermark when the lamp is off.

So cute...I love hidden treasures. <3

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