DIY / Upcycle
How To Add Life Into An Old Chandelier?
I love the new styles of crystal chandeliers. They definitely add glamour to every space; unfortunately, they come with a big price tag. My dining room light fixture has seen better times, even though it has nice crystals hanging off it. Its outdated 80’s gold tones definitely needed some good TLC.
As you probably already know about me, I will do everything I can to see if I can solve an issue without spending big bucks.
And what better way than spray-painting it… Yes, yes I did it again. I used spray paint to refresh this old item and made it brand spanking new again.
And what better way than spray-painting it… Yes, yes I did it again. I used spray paint to refresh this old item and made it brand spanking new again.
Before we took it off the ceiling we removed all the crystals to prevent them from breaking.
I did not realize how many crystals there were until they were placed on the table.
To change the crystals’ wires, from gold to black, I used jewelry pins purchased on Amazon and my many years of experience in the jewelry-making business. I have to admit that, even with my knowledge, this task seemed never-ending and the crystals seemed to be multiplying.
We took chandeliers off the ceiling and disassembled them into many pieces. Each metal component was dusted off and then lightly polished with a metal pad. This action helped to make the new paint stick better to the chandelier and prevent chipping in the future.
Then it was time for painting. We used Rust-oleum ultra-cover paint. There were 2 coats of paint needed with a day of drying in between.
Putting the pieces together was definitely more challenging than taking them apart. But we managed 🙂 First we hung the chandelier – added brand new light bulbs, turned a switch and the light was back 🙂
The last thing to do was to add the crystals back… hundreds of them.
The whole project cost me only $30:
spray paint = 6.47
jewelry head pins (package of 50) = $3.50 x 5
polishing pad = $ 7.90
And approximately 3 hours of labor time.
But…. as you can see the end result it was well worth it.
What an amazing transformation!
Agnes
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Thank you for your comment Agnes. I’m glad that you liked it.
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You have explained so nicely that how we can covert old chandelier into new one without efforts.
I do consider all the ideas you have introduced to your post.
They are very convincing and will certainly work. Nonetheless, the posts are too short for starters.
Could you please prolong them a bit from subsequent time?
Thanks for the post.
Thank you for your comment, I will try ny best to go into farther details when doing next DIY post 🙂
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