Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Faux stained glass geek lamp revamp

Hello again! I am feverishly working on my house, so in the spirit of procrastination I give you another project- a geek project, but this time a faux stained glass geek project you can convert to non-geek if you have to ;)

Here is a before picture of the lamp-with a special appearance by the glorious Hannah B
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It just felt outdated and plain in my kitchen and I felt like I was always dusting it.

First I taped it all up inside and out and spray-painted all the brassy-gold metal "matte aluminum". then I sat down and planned out each panel.

I made 2 panels for each of our geeky favorites (well.. SOME of our geeky favs anways)
2 Harry Potter
2 Doctor Who
2 Star Wars
2 comics.

I used tracing paper and drew out what I wanted each panel to look like, then taped it to the back of each glass panel.

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all taped it looked like this:
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I used Tulip Slick Dimensional Fabric Paint in black for the "leading" on the lamp and traced over all my black lines. I waited for each panel to set before moving to the next panel. I did this before, bed, and in the morning I mixed up Elmer's glue in mini-muffin tins and added a bit of acrylic craft paint to make them the colors I wanted. I like how mine turned out but I'd recommend only a drop of paint or two and not a lot so it's more see-through.

I let the paint well up in the little spaces and used cotton swabs to suck up any stray paint.
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You don't even want to know how long it took me to make this lamp, but HOURS of drying per panel plus a ton of crouching and bending over it. I couldn't take the glass out of the lamp without ruining it, so I had to paint it then dry completely before flipping to the next one.

VOILA~ FINISHED!

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my two favorite panels:
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I am so pleased with how it looks in my grass green kitchen! I'd share pictures but... that was the point of this post - to procrastinate cleaning.

2 comments:

  1. I adore this lamp! Thanks again for letting me reblog it. :)

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  2. thank you for deeming it cool enough to blog about :)

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