DIY Lamp Revamp

I love Diy projects because you can save a ton of money .

This lamp it might look a little outdated .

But after Amy Howard gets her hands on it , it's gonna look like a million bucks .

Amy , I was able to find this lamp in the basement .

It's very dated and you're gonna help me fix that .

Yes .

One of the products that I love using is our lack on things just like this .

Lamps really have great shapes a lot of times .

But it's the decorative and ornamentation like on this particular lamp that are not really as desirable , but we're gonna transform it with the colors .

OK .

You said transforming it .

What exactly is the game plan for transforming this lamp ?

So , on this particular lamp , we're going to do the base of it in Belize Lacquer , which is going to give us a great pop of color and the top , we're gonna actually paint in the one step paint because remember we can paint fabric with it .

We will also need painter's tape and a round hog's hairbrush to apply the paint and simple green and paper towels to give us a clean surface before we start Ok .

Amy .

First things first , this lamp was in the basement .

It's kind of grimy .

We should probably clean it up .

The first thing we need to do is take some simple grain and I diluted it with water to one part , simple grain .

So that way we're just gonna spray over it like this .

We wanna make sure that we get all the grease , all the dirt off because that could act as a barrier to really having a great paint job on this piece .

After you get it all dried off , we want to be able to come back and just spray some regular tap water on it and then wipe this all down and make sure it's really good and dry .

We also clean the lampshade by just wetting a paper towel and rubbing it down to collect all the dust .

Now , you sure you don't want to keep this pink color on this .

I think we're gonna have a lot more fun with it being white .

I agree .

Now , I've never heard of painting a lampshade , but it's time to put Amy's one step paint to the test .

So I poured some of my ballet right into this container .

I've got some regular tap water and I'll let you thin that .

So you're gonna dip your brush into the paint , make sure you offload it because this is a large brush .

It's gonna hold a lot of paint .

And so I want you to always offload it .

So that way you can make sure that it's evenly distributed in your brush and then you're gonna come back and stipple it .

I'm not brushing down or going across .

I just wanna make sure that I'm stippling it and I will tell you because it , the paint is thinner .

I'm gonna probably wanna put two coats on here .

You ready to try it ?

Well , I think I've mastered stippling while the shade dries we work on the base .

We wanna have ventilation because we're gonna be spraying with an aerosol , uh , Nitros Lacer .

Um , on this particular lamp base , we've chosen Belize , which is a really great pop of color .

So you wanna make sure that you just shake this up really , really well , for about 2 to 3 minutes , you're gonna notice that it has a special kind of nozzle on it .

It's gonna spray in a V , right ?

And a lot of spray paints will spray in a conical shade .

This is going to give you a more professional , really beautiful , um , application of the , the nitro cellular slacker .

It's gonna be glossy and beautiful , just like if maybe we had bought it yesterday and how are we going to spray this without causing drips and lines and things like that ?

It's really important to stay about 5 to 6 inches away from the piece .

And remember this is like a paint brush .

We want to go off in the area .

We'll start spraying here and kind of span across it .

It's really important that we don't spray it .

Like we're spraying hair spray .

We protect the cord in the neck of the lamp with Tate before we start spraying , press down on the trigger off of it like this watch .

We want to make sure it's long clean strokes .

Very nice .

All right .

Amy .

While the paint is still fresh , why don't we finish spraying ?

Get it done .

Get this lamp project finished .

It's gonna look awesome .

I'm so excited and now Amy for the big reveal .

Honestly , it doesn't even look like the same old tacky lamp that we started with .

It .

Doesn't , it looks amazing .

We probably spent under $35 to do this and it took us less than two hours to do it and you can't even go to a store and buy a lamp for that anymore .

Absolutely not .

But now with this , you get to enjoy the braking rides .

Amy out did herself on this one who knew a lighting project could be so creative with a little bit of time and effort .

We saved this land from a landfill .