Chandelier Makeover

When my daughter Presley turned 2 I decided it was time to update her room a bit. Turn it from a nursery into a fabulous little girls room. One of the main items I knew I wanted to put in there was a hanging chandelier. When I was shopping around for some I couldn't find any chandeliers I wanted that were under $300 but during my search I came across an old rusty chandelier on craigslist for $10. It wasn't all that pretty but the shape and style matched what I was looking for so I decided to make it over.

Terrible picture I know, I wasn't planning on blogging about this project. The original shape of this chandlier was very rusty and the original paint was missing in many places. The first thing I did was sand all the paint off. I wanted to make sure it was even all the way around.

 

All the chandeliers I originally wanted all had hanging crystals or beads dripping from the chandelier so to replicate that I took some dollar store mardi gras beads and cut them to the right lengths and glued them. Which I don't have a photo of since again I didn't think I was going to blog about this. Here is a photo of Style for Style's version of this step.

 

After I had the beads hanging the way I wanted them I took spray paint. I chose a satin finish with primer already mixed in and spray painted the chandelier. All it took was 2 full coats and the Chandelier was complete!