Oh how I love the look of a Niermann Weeks chandelier, and oh how I hate the price of them. My friend Karen who is one of the most fashionable ladies walking the planet, got me thinking about how to create the look of a Niermann Weeks chandelier. She is a girl after my own heart and loves to decorate fabulous for less. I have told you before that I am a "faux, faux finisher". I pretend a little with decorative finishes, but I had never experimented with applying any products to a fixture before. So I gave it a shot.
Here are a few finishes I liked from the Niermann Weeks collection, all priced over $5,500:
Here are a few of Brooke's table lamps from her Giannetti lighting collection, love the finish of these as well:
And this is what I wanted to transform into something lovely: a $25 brass consignment store find. I liked the lines of it, and it was large enough to go in my foyer.
Everything I used was products that I had around my house (Faux Effects plaster), but you could use regular plaster and tint it any color you wanted. I scooped the product up in my hands and smeared it all over the chandelier. My first plaster color was a bronze shade. I let that dry and then I repeated the exact same "technique" with a neutral color plaster (I am using that term loosely as my five year old helped me cover the chandelier in plaster with her hands). Once both layers had dried I sanded it a little by hand to let the darker shade underneath show through.
We did change out the glass because I wanted an "old look". We replaced the plain glass with "seeded glass" for a vintage feel. I considered not putting any glass in it at all. I think that would have been a nice look also, but ultimately the "seeded glass look" won me over.
Didn't she do a great job?
It is so inspiring, it makes me want to get out and work on a project right now!
I LOVE the finished product but wow... seeing that picture of her husband on that ladder gave me goosebumps!
ReplyDeleteGorgeous!!
ReplyDeleteYou are truly an inspiration!! I love that you venture out into the world of used/vintage/discarded and have a vision of what it could be!!
ReplyDeleteWe bought a gold chandelier yesterday the the D.I. , some Ballet Pink spray paint. My goal was to make dinner, prime the fixture, eat, clean the kitchen, THEN paint it. My husband got excited about the project and finished it, from start to finish in two hours! He even wired it hung it up! Beautiful!!!! Thanks so much for planting the seed in my brain!!
oh.my.gosh. I am floored! This is lovely! Talk about earning some DIY stripes.
ReplyDeleteLove how this turned out.