Wednesday, October 20, 2010 Slap some paint on it: A Quicky Blog Squad Project
Ohhhhh how we love a quick, cheap project!
What do you get when you mix an outdated brass floor lamp and a bottle of XO Rust spray paint? An awesome-up-to-date floor lamp that can live in any room!
The floor lamp was a hand-me-down from Joey's Amazing Aunt who gifted us all sorts of goodies this past Fourth-O-July! This piece we all collectively cringed at, but I had plans for this dated wonder.
True Value told us about XO Rust, and we were so excited to try it out. We have a bunch of updates we can't wait to slap this paint on, but first we needed to fix our sad little floor lamp before we battled the elements outside to spruce up the outdoor light covers, which look a little drab.
This project is super simple:
Any metal, rusty, brass, or brassy item you want to give a facelift to.
A bottle or two of XO Rust indoor/outdoor spray.
- That's it! The paint has a "built-in" primer - so you are good to go.
Step away from you object! Only a couple feet, and with soft strokes about two feet in length(depending on what you are spray painting, I am using the floor lamp as an example) - spray back and forth! That's it. It was so over the top easy to transform this trash to treasure - I am for sure, newly addicted to this stuff. I will be hitting the junk markets soon - in search of rusty treasures to restore!
Lets get legal: We were one of the 10 bloggers True Value has chosen to work on The Blog Squad , and we are way excited to take on the challenge of showing you exciting DIY projects. They have compensated us for our time and writing, and provided materials for the projects we have worked on. However, our opinions are entirely our own and we have not been paid to publish positive comments. Did we mention we are excited to show you our DIY Blog Squad Projects?
Reader Comments (2)
This is fabulous. I'm so happy you did a short post on this because I have SO MANY things I could use this paint on. Great to know how well it will all turn out!
@Katie glad to help! this stuff truly is awesome and i am seriously scouting out metal objects to paint b/c it works so perfectly!