Moss: Party of Four: From Brass to Class....

I woke up this morning & decided that i was going to hit the Goodwill. I had not been to the Goodwill in years even though there is one about 5 minutes away from us! I have seen on several blogs i have been following that they take old, brassy lamps & completely spruce them up with a good coat of spray paint (what else, right??)

In no time, i spotted these "beauties".... and prompty decided they would work. I needed one to put on the newly refurbished side table in the living room and i needed 2 matching ones for the nightstands in our bedroom. I have several lamps in the house already, but none of them are what i needed or big enough, matched well enough etc. So "new" ones it was. And at $4 a pop, i liked the idea even better!!

Here they are before i got started on them. They all three look very similar, but the two on the left have a matching center "swirl" on them. The one on the right does not & is a tad bit taller.

This will be the one in the living room.... and i spray painted it "brushed nickel"....

And the two like this are going in the bedroom.... and they were painted "oil rubbed bronze"...

Here they are in "process".....

Of course, while i was doing this, Eli was napping & Jackson was at school. But that still left the most active one of all....

But i have to admit... he was a good little boy while i worked in the garage. He stayed right on the (nasty, i'll admit) rug in the garage while i worked. He wasn't on a leash & stayed right there & out of trouble (he had plenty of blown in leaves to keep him occupied, i guess!). Anyway.. back to the projects at hand!! Here is the taller one for the living room. The table it is sitting on, i finished on Saturday. It was a $10 find on craigslist that was in perfectly good shape as it was ( a cherry finish) aside from a few stripped spots on the top, but i had other plans. I painted it to match the bookcase i finished the weekend before. So now it is Randy's new side table & it has a pretty new lamp on top! yay!