Dang, friends. I was trying to be all thrifty and not spend money but it back fired on me. I should have done some research first before jumping right in.
With the little updating kick I've been on lately around my house, I decided that I wanted white lamp shades for the one in our living room and the two in our bedroom. They were a boring cream color that kind of blended in with the walls.
So I painted them white. (If you already knew what I wish I would have, a melodramatic "wah wah" noise now would be appropriate.)
Painted lamp shades are in fact the antithesis of what I was going for--brighter lit rooms. Now I know.
They actually make the room much darker because the light doesn't shine as easily through the shade.
Learn from me. Don't paint your lamp shades.
1 comments:
Thinned paint, sponge painted on is the trick. Many many years ago one of my cousins and I "painted" the lamp shades in our bedroom to go with our blue and yellow motif.
Just remember that without mistakes, we don't really learn anything!
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