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How spray paint and 5 minutes can make a big difference to a space

March 30, 2015 by Finding your joy in the journey

 

I have talked about before how I am redoing my living room colors. I have been removing a lot of the yellows and blues and adding in more whites and antique colors.

You can go here to see the Gallery wall and here to see the before pictures of the living room.

I just redid a blue side table, you can see the make over here.

This time my make over was a quick one, on a tiny piece which ended up making a big difference.

I got the little yellow mirror at Hobby Lobby a few years ago and I love it. I have lots of yellow downstairs so I could have moved the mirror downstairs but I really loved the look of it and it was what I wanted in the space. It was not there originally so I was going to have to take it down to move the frames around any way so I thought I would give it a quick makeover with some spray paint.

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I popped out the mirror before I began the painting.

(man it needed better dusting…. oops!)

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I didn’t even sand down the original because I wanted some of the yellow and blue to pop back through.

I laid in on my painting sheet and sprayed it white.

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I wasn’t super concerned with whether or not the paint looked good because I was going to rough it up and sand it down in places so I could stain it and make it look “antiqued”.

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I wanted a bit of stain on the piece to give it the antique look.

All I had to do to achieve that look was dip a corner of a paper towel into a bit of stain.

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I rubbed the stain around on the frame.

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And then wiped the stain off really fast. I did not want it to be super brown so I did not let the stain set before I wiped it off.

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After it was dry I took it inside to put the mirror back in. I was having a lot of trouble getting it back it into the frame and ended up breaking it. GAH!!!

This was one of those mistakes that thankfully was totally fixable because I never ever use the mirror as a mirror, so I was totally fine with using it as a frame.

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However, because I am sooooo so very careful, I may or may not have cut my finger removing the glass from the frame.

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But it’s so pretty, so its worth it. Now I just need to fix the 5,000 2 holes in the wall.

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And now…. because before and after pictures are my favorite!!!

Before:

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After:

 

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We are ignoring the holes, right?!

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This project took me all of 5 minutes, minus the drying time and the finger bleed time. Yow!

I love how a simple change of color on one thing can change the whole look of a space.

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