My Nana had these baby blue seashell lamps at her beach house for as long as I can remember. After her house sold, somehow they ended up in my parent’s garage, and subsequently in my apartment. They have a pretty cool shape, but the 1980s baby blue just wasn’t working for me. I had an extra can of Martha Stewart Lightstrokes metallic paint left over from some other project, and I decided to use that to paint them.
Step 1:: These guys had a pretty thick glaze and definitely needed to be sanded down to hold any sort of paint. Sanding them down was the worst. Make sure to get in all the nooks and crannies or else you’ll have a hard time painting later. Hard to tell from the picture below, but I sanded until I could see a lighter finish.
Step 2:: Paint! I taped off the top of the lamp as well as around the cord at the base. I used a quart of paint and had plenty left over, but it did take me lots and lots of tiny little coats to get the whole things covered.
That’s it! I’m pretty happy with how they turned out, and now begins the search for lampshades….
Happy painting,
Statia