Mixing up my light fixtures.

Musical light fixtures.....

 

 

We lived with the builders light fixtures for a long time.  We picked them all out so we did like them.  We chose a brown metal color. (of course brown!!)   And of course one day I decided I wanted some new light fixtures in my kitchen.  I felt the ones we had were too kitcheny!  So I went out and realized that light fixtures are expensive!!  I decided then to use what I have and switch some things around. 

 

This is the original light that was over our table.

 

 

 

 

 

And this is the light fixture in the kitchen over the island.

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

I had one extra light fixture from my project in my dining room. 

 

Read about my $5.00 drum shade pendant here.

 

 

 

http://myeverchanginghome.blogspot.com/2012/03/my-5.html

 

 

 

Now that I look at that dining room light fixture it looks like way too many crooked little shades to me!!

TJ took down both kitchen light fixtures and I got to work.   The first thing I did was decide on a paint color. 

I decided on Rust-Oleums Oil Rubbed Bronze.


I hung the light fixtures on a ladder outside and painted them both. Very simple!  I had pictures of this step but they were lost with the computer crash.

I decided to use the light from the eat in area for over the kitchen island.  I always thought it looked way too small here anyways.  I also knew I was going to lose those frosted shades!

I found these seeded glass shades at Home Depot.  I knew they were perfect!!

 

So after a few coats of rubbed oil bronze spray paint, some fun round little light bulbs, and some new glass shades it went from this:

 

 

To this....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Before

 

 

after

 

 

 

Here is the light fixture in the dining room

 

 

 

 

 

After it was sprayed with the rubbed oil bronze paint.

 

 

 

 

I decided to not use the shades.  (I actually ended up selling them on ebay for $50.00!)  I went with the little round bulbs instead.  I love those!

before

after




So here is the run down.  I re used both light fixtures.  Spent $5.00 on the drum fixture in the dining room.  The spray paint was $5.00.  The seeded glass shades were about $35.00.  I sold the chandelier shades for $50.00 on ebay so I ended up making $5.00 on this project! :)

The best part is I love my new lights.  They are all original and I love that about them!