Lamp Reveal and Winner - Finally!

Drum roll!  It took me quite some time to get this completed.  It's not like it was overly complicated or anything.  However, I've had an busy and stressful week, so my blog projects got back-burnered.  There were a couple of trial and errors involved, as well.  As you can see, I de-lamped it.  It is now an urn and is residing in my master bath.

Let me tell you about the challenge winners, before I tell you what all I did.   I am totally flabbergasted at all of the great ideas for this one orphaned lamp!  Here are my top picks:

 #1 Winner

Sharlotte from Ms. Sharlotte's Southern Reflections said:  Yes, I'd buy it. I'm going to copy what my sister is doing and cover it completely with seashells. I'd use jute to wrap the top metal section and maybe the bottom as well...and add a rectangular shade. I think it would gorgeous!

#2 Runner Up

Pam from clustres says, I would paint it high gloss solid white and try to find a solid black square shade, nothing too large. If the figure that is on the back looks anything like a Santos (religious figure), I might try to paint it a solid dark color except for the figure and paint it like the antique retablos with a lot of distressing and antiquing stain. And if I did that, I'd probably take out the electrical parts, add a metal plate or flat bowl to the top and make it a pillar candle holder.

Honorable Mention

I'm going to give an honorable mention to my friend Debbie from Love the Decor, because she'd do exactly what I did!  I guess that's why we're friends.

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The lamp started out kind of an off-white with gold speckles.  I was going to put it in my dining room, but changed my mind.  I had always intended to make it an urn.

Turquoise, anyone?  Go ahead and laugh, I did!  I spray painted it gold--so far, so good--then painted this color over it.  Truly.  It looks like a grade school project of some sort.

Take II:  I started spray painting it ORB.  That seemed too black.  Sooooo, Take III:  I used hammered brown on part of it.  Yeah, baby, it's two colors.

With chandy {eye} candy!

Okay, but you can still see some gold, right?  Know what happened?

If you follow me on Twitter you already know:  Rub 'n Buff is my new BFF!  I purchased Antique Gold.  Not because I wanted antique gold, but my local M*chael's store hasn't stocked up in over a month and it was either that or an opened gold leaf or patina (which I assume is a green color--WHY they don't put sample dots of some sort on the packaging is a mystery to me).

 (photo courtesy of LaserSketch Ltd.)

So I Rubbed.   And I Buffed.  It's so fun!  The photo on the packing does show a finger being used to rub.  I wouldn't suggest that, because it doesn't wash off easily.  I found using an old cloth worked the best and a little goes a long way.

Yea!  I got this posted - I was interrupted about a ka-zillion times answering questions about King Lear.


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