When the old lamp from my children’s space was turning decidedly “trash-worthy”, a grand concept formed and stored me from tossing it out. Initially, it had been such a darling lamp – it had magically transformed the space into spinning stars and moons at bedtime. My boys were enthralled with it!

Nicely, as the boys grew, so did their access benefit to the lamp. The inner spinning mylar cylinder with the moon and star styles turned into a mangled, crumpled, ripped up piece of multi-coloured plastic. There was absolutely nothing salvageable there. What was left, however, was a completely practical mild and a plain wood frame that held 4 blank canvas panels. Because I could not probably throw a working lamp away no issue how plain and unpleasant it was – I had to jazz it up!

Here is how I did it:

one. I “washed” the canvas panels with a “butter cream” coloured bottled acrylic diluted with h2o using a two” brush. To produce a weave pattern, I first made vertical strokes on all 4 panels then went back and did horizontal strokes.

two. I carefully painted the wood frame with a dark brown bottled acrylic using a little artists’ brush. (if you’re not confident with your painting skill – use painters tape on the canvas panels to avoid getting the brown paint on them)

3. As soon as the frame and panels were dry, I planned my stencil placement and then taped the stencil in place using masking tape.

four. I chose a Chocolate color in a Delta Stencil Cream. After removing all extra paint from my stencil brush on a paper towel, I stenciled the style on all 4 panels using a circular movement. I used a style from our Plaster Petite’s Line, set #one.

five. For the finishing touch – I used 4 pretty finials that I attached to the 4 corners of the frame with white glue. If you do not happen to have any finials hanging about your home – examine out your local home shop. You’ll discover fantastic finials in the window treatment aisle OR try a truly amazing ornamental drawer pull for the top! Get inventive! Elegant or funky! Just do not move the lamp until the glue is totally dry or you will have 4 falling off finials!

That is all there is to our “Previous Lamp Re-Make” – we hope you enjoyed this undertaking! For more totally amazing stenciling make-over and re-decorating suggestions, go to our web site www.simplyspring.com often!

About The Author

Spring Meese is the designer for Simply Spring Styles, a business that offers a beautiful array of Raised Plaster and Wall Stencils. Spring has been in the stencil company for over ten years and is a licensed interior decorator.

spring@simplyspring.com