{"id":601,"date":"2013-09-16T04:43:26","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T08:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/?p=601"},"modified":"2013-09-14T04:45:59","modified_gmt":"2013-09-14T08:45:59","slug":"spray-paint-and-a-project-from-my-yhl-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/2013\/09\/16\/spray-paint-and-a-project-from-my-yhl-book\/","title":{"rendered":"spray paint and a project from my YHL book"},"content":{"rendered":"

Originally published on May 14, 2013 at twentysixcats.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Today I did something I’ve been meaning to do for a long time… It involved spray paint and a project from my Young House Love (YHL) book<\/a>! I gave our old brass chandelier an update.<\/p>\n

It seems that I don’t have a “before” picture, boo. Well here is the closest I have:
\n\"Ugly<\/a><\/p>\n

One of the glass globes broke a while ago, so we took them all off.<\/p>\n

First I collected my spray paint. I used stuff that I already had from a previous project. I ended up buying another can of the metallic spray.
\n\"Spray<\/a><\/p>\n

It was pretty dirty, so I cleaned it with a damp rag.
\n\"Before!\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I covered the light bulb sockets with painter’s tape so they wouldn’t get paint in them, and then I started with the primer. I don’t think this is always necessary, but since I already had the primer I decided to go for it.
\n\"Coat<\/a><\/p>\n

After the first coat of the metallic spray. It’s somewhat of a charcoal gray – I really love this color.
\n\"First<\/a><\/p>\n

Closeup, while waiting for it to dry.
\n\"Waiting<\/a><\/p>\n

I just love the metallic finish.
\n\"Waiting<\/a><\/p>\n

Once dry, I took off the painter’s tape and put the bulbs back in!
\n\"Finished!\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Hanging up! (Sorry for the not great picture – it was getting dark, and if I waited until tomorrow to take a picture I’d probably never get around to it!)
\n\"In<\/a><\/p>\n

Here it is with the lights on.
\n\"With<\/a><\/p>\n

I really like it! Definitely an improvement. Now I need to get some pictures of the entire dining room with the “new” light fixture…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Originally published on May 14, 2013 at twentysixcats.com Today I did something I’ve been meaning to do for a long time… It involved spray paint and a project from my Young House Love (YHL) book! I gave our old brass chandelier an update. It seems that I don’t have a “before” picture, boo. Well here […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,17,40],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":602,"href":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions\/602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twentysixcats.com\/fromhoveltohome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}