WIP Wednesday: Refreshed
Yeah, so here's what I did this week: Celebrated my older daughter's ninth birthday (not once, but several times), made a quick out-of-state trip to visit family, and hosted two parties. Whew! Summer is definitely going out with a bang around here. But in the midst of all that, I also installed two new light fixtures, which I think officially completes my big kitchen refresh! I'll do a post with before and after pictures very soon, but here was my one-and-only crafty project this week:
So I found this light fixture on Overstock. I totally loved it, but it was $500. Then I found another fixture on Overstock that looked almost exactly like it and got rave reviews for only $110! The problem? I didn't love the finish on the $110 model. So I used this excellent Rub 'n Buff stuff to change the finish color of the metal and save myself $400.
And it actually worked pretty well! Here she is, all rubbed and buffed and hanging above my kitchen table. I had some trouble getting an even finish on the fixture's larger pieces, like the plate that attaches to the ceiling—in fact, I ended up using the ceiling plate from my old (broken) light fixture instead, and I tossed the Rub N Buff'd one. (Fortunately the two plates were interchangeable, so it worked.) But for the smaller parts of the fixture, like the "cage" that goes over the shade, this stuff worked like a dream.
Okay, so what are you working on this week? Let's see it!
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1. Link up any blog post or Instagram photo from the past week that features an unfinished work-in-progress (WIP).
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