Beautiful job, TTodd! I love it on your lovely antique desk! We have one very similar to that, (desk, that is), and that type of lamp would look perfect on it. Now I think I need to start searching Goodwill and thrift shops to see if I could find something similar. The green looks so much nicer than that bright white.

That looks great! Isn't a little paint a wonderful thing :)

Perfect!

Wow, amazing what a little paint can do! I also want to steal that antique it is sitting on. Scrumptious!

What a beautiful green, and it looks perfect against the books.

I love it!

That's a great result on a "cheap 'trial run' lamp" - looks wonderful, not cheap at all now!

Do you have time to post your 'how-to' paint a metal lamp tutorial? I'm sure it would be much appreciated.

What a great find and a great paint job. Looks wonderful.

Luckgal - DH uses so much primer at work that he buys it by the gallon and has a dedicated sprayer for it. Because he knew I was on a mission and couldn't wait for him he told me to check for a primer in a spry can.

I found Krylon primer for Metal and wood. Came in white or gray. I got grey.

I cleaned off my lamps w/ a damp cloth.

I bundled up the cord and covered it w/ newspaper and tape as well as the socket.

I lightly sprayed a coat of primer and repeated that step letting it dry in between coats for about 20 min. I probably did 3 coats of primer.

Then I lightly sprayed a coat of my green spray paint. I was worried because it would get drippy and a few globs would land on the lamp but they dried no problem and blended in well. I repeated that step a few times until I had a nice even color. It went super fast.

After it was all completely dried I noticed a few spots where I must have sprayed too heavy and I got a few runs so I gently sanded those spots w/ steel wool and lightly resprayed those sections. Can't even tell that I had a few runs!

My set up: DH cleared out a corner of the basement and hung a sheet up on the wall. He put a table in the corner covered by another old sheet and placed a piece of cardboard on top of the table. It was easy for me to turn the cardboard instead of waiting for the lamp to dry to pick it up and turn it. That way I was able to coat the entire lamp in one fell swoop each time I did a coat. Made it go super fast. I think I will buy a lazy susan to go on top of that old table to make it even faster. Oh - and I nailed a nail into an old block of wood to out the finial on to spray paint.

Yes it's 4:30AM and I've already put the last coat on the sister lamp to the one that I ruined earlier!

ttodd - Do you think your process will work on a glossy ceramic lamp? I don't have a trial run lamp (and no more lamps are allowed in my house), so when your DH resurrects the "ruined" lamp, could you let us know how he did it?

Java

It's perfect! I love that kind of lamp and have two
of them. Great job.

Thanks for the 'tute', ttodd! Hope you got to sleep for a few hours!