I used to be nonetheless getting over my chilly yesterday, and I used to be at that stage the place I didn’t really feel horrible, however I had no vitality and simply wished to sleep. So the one studio challenge I may muster vitality for was giving my pendant lights a makeover. Spray portray appeared about proper for my vitality degree.
I’ve had these lights on this room for years now, however the extra my imaginative and prescient for this room involves life, the extra the black pendants didn’t fairly appear proper. I like black as an accent, however these simply appeared too darkish and heavy with my mural and pink cupboards.
The opposite day, I discussed the potential of portray them gold, and most everybody appeared to suppose that might be an incredible thought. However then as I used to be scrolling via Instagram reels, I got here throughout a reel the place a girl made a pendant mild out of a big bowl, and the completed mild had a black wire with a shade that’s white on the surface and gold on the within. I like how this seems to be!
Sadly, I simply took a screenshot reasonably than saving the reel, so I don’t know who this belongs to. When you acknowledge it, please let me know in order that I may give correct credit score!
So reasonably than portray my pendant lights all gold (which I fear may find yourself wanting a bit garish), I made a decision to do this black/white/gold combo first and see what I assumed. Right here’s how mine turned out…
As a result of I didn’t need to go to the shop, I simply used what I had readily available. I would need to change the gold on the within of the shade to a different gold. This one appears to lack depth. However general, I prefer it.
The method was fairly simple. The big shade comes off of this mild very simply.
For the gold, I began off utilizing this Rust-Oleum Common metallic in Pure Gold.
I’ve used this a number of instances on varied initiatives, together with the plumbing pipes underneath the vanities in our master bathroom.
It was the right shade for that software, however for the sunshine, it seemed slightly uninteresting.
So I went again over it with this Montana Gold spray paint. Their cans confuse me. I get these at Michael’s, and I’m fairly certain Montana Gold is the identify of the model, and never the colour. However I don’t know the place to search out the colour identify. (Edit: I discovered the colour! It’s on the highest, and it’s referred to as Goldchrome.)
So I sprayed that over the Rust-Oleum Pure Gold, and the Montana Gold is a lot shinier and extra metallic. It’s actually a good looking paint. For the surface of the shade, I used Rust-Oleum Painters Contact in a Flat White (from Residence Depot).
General, I just like the look. I like that the white shade has a lighter, airier look than the heavy black shade. And I like the thought of the gold contained in the shade.
I want to lift the sunshine slightly extra in order that the gold reveals extra, however that’s the place my vitality ran out. Perhaps I can get to that as we speak.
However I’m nonetheless looking for the right gold. I truly ordered some gold leaf yesterday, so possibly I’ll use that. With regards to a metallic end, there’s actually nothing that compares to precise gold leaf. (Nicely, I don’t imply precise gold leaf. That’s too costly for me. I take advantage of imitation gold leaf, but it surely’s nonetheless far more metallic than any end you’ll get with spray paint.)
So what do you suppose? Ought to I persist with this black/white/gold plan? Hold the surface white, and discover a higher gold (probably precise gold leaf) for the within? Or ought to I forgo the white and do all the shade (inside and outside) in gold? I’m fairly certain that no matter I do, I’m conserving the wire and the cover black. I like how that appears.
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My mother did three mockups for me with three totally different shade colours, and he or she included the bamboo window shades that I plan to make use of in order that we are able to have a a lot better thought of what the pendant mild will seem like in opposition to the completed wall.
The primary one with a gold shade is my least favourite. I favor the gold to be in very small accent doses, and that is an excessive amount of gold in a single dose for my style. Plus, I’d have two of them.
The primary time I scrolled via the photographs, I wrote off the pink instantly. I’m undecided why I did that, as a result of I truly actually prefer it. And I prefer it extra the extra I have a look at it.
The white was my quick favourite, however I don’t like that black cover in opposition to the ceiling. And I feel the very backside rim on the surface of the shade must be gold as an alternative of white. I ponder how it will look if I make the entire mild white and gold, with no black in any respect. I may do the cover and twine gold, the surface of the shade white, and the within gold, with the gold wrapping round to the underside rim on the surface.
However that pink certain is rising on me! 😀
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I rework and beautify the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do nearly all of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.
