Boys' Room: Weathered Warehouse Pendant

See, I told you I was working on my boys' room. 

If you saw the design board I posted earlier, you may have noticed an industrial looking warehouse pendant -- I did buy it for an outrageously affordable $25 from the big orange HD. It was just too shiny and new looking though, plus the inside was white, and say what you will about white reflecting light, blah blah blah... I wanted a  more weathered look -- something that looked a bit like galvanized steel or at least something old. Something that may have actually been in a warehouse? Maybe an old one by the sea, oxidized by the salt air? Look at me imagining life stories for my light fixtures.

Time to pull out my trusty spray paint!

The good news is this was incredibly easy, and I'm over-the-moon happy with the results.

I used 3 products:

Gray primer, Rustoleum's Metallic Matte Nickel and Krylon's Original Chrome (the stuff I used for my lazy man's silver leaf mirror frame). Look at me, being such a rebel... Rustoleum and Krylon, playing nicely together on my little project.

1. Prime (I did gently scuff up the metallic side with sandpaper prior)

2. Spray with metallic nickel paint

3. Lightly and unevenly spray with the Original Chrome paint -- resulting in a flecked, mottled appearance with a bit of texture.

I did that on both the inside and outside of the fixture and the ceiling canopy, and that was that. Easy peasy. I think it looks great and I can't wait to throw a couple more galvanized steel-y accents in there with it...

Not bad for a $25 fixture, right?

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