Lampshade Painting Fail
Hey Everyone! So not everything on Crafty Echo actually works out. I most often hope it will, but sometimes it doesn't. This time it was a lampshade painting fail. I had seen this post on Pinterest where the person had painted their lamp shade to be a different color. So my naive self said, hey, I could totally paint mine. Folks don't try it. Recover it with fabric, sure, paint it, NO! This is what I started with.
Pretty simple, nothing too crazy, but BORING! I would love to bring some moroccan prints into my living room, they go with the nautical theme right? So I cut this pattern out. The one on the left was a stencil I was making, the one on the right was the inside pattern.
The stencil just did not work because of the shape of the lamp. It's curved and it's angled. So I ended up tracing the inside pattern onto the lampshade. This is what it looked like after I had tried and tried to make it work.
See all those pencil lines? It was a great big mess. Then I started painting. I used a combination of a textile medium and some sample paint I had picked up from Lowes.
It took me 2 hours to paint the blue! 2 HOURS I'll never get back! I tried erasing the lines, but they were not going to erase. Nothing I tried seemed to get rid of them from this fabric lampshade.
Not to even forget the patchiness of it all. It was going to need a second coat. Which of course went quicker, but still. Then I decided to paint the blank spots with 2 coats of white because I couldn't get rid of the lines. Another 2 HOURS of my life gone. It was just like this.
Painted with lines showing through even thought I had painted a white coat. Maybe primer would have worked, but I'm not doing anymore. What a mess, what a time waste, and pointless. So people don't do it, no matter what! Here is what they ended up looking like with the lights turned on.
I'll have to get a new lampshade, probably a good Target one.
Have fun!
Pretty simple, nothing too crazy, but BORING! I would love to bring some moroccan prints into my living room, they go with the nautical theme right? So I cut this pattern out. The one on the left was a stencil I was making, the one on the right was the inside pattern.
The stencil just did not work because of the shape of the lamp. It's curved and it's angled. So I ended up tracing the inside pattern onto the lampshade. This is what it looked like after I had tried and tried to make it work.
See all those pencil lines? It was a great big mess. Then I started painting. I used a combination of a textile medium and some sample paint I had picked up from Lowes.
It took me 2 hours to paint the blue! 2 HOURS I'll never get back! I tried erasing the lines, but they were not going to erase. Nothing I tried seemed to get rid of them from this fabric lampshade.
Not to even forget the patchiness of it all. It was going to need a second coat. Which of course went quicker, but still. Then I decided to paint the blank spots with 2 coats of white because I couldn't get rid of the lines. Another 2 HOURS of my life gone. It was just like this.
Painted with lines showing through even thought I had painted a white coat. Maybe primer would have worked, but I'm not doing anymore. What a mess, what a time waste, and pointless. So people don't do it, no matter what! Here is what they ended up looking like with the lights turned on.
I'll have to get a new lampshade, probably a good Target one.
Have fun!
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