Painting Glass Light Fixtures?!
Painting Glass Light Fixtures
By now most of you know I opened my own brick and mortar shop this past October. It’s been an amazing experience and I’m super excited for what the future holds. When I first announced the moving of my shop I wrote this post. As you can see from the photos, the building I moved into needed lots of renovating and while I did have the help of a few contractors most of the work was done by Prince Charming and me. We’re great at providing labor and inexpensive alternatives to the norm. Today I want to share one of those inexpensive options with you. Painting Glass Fixtures!
{Note-you can purchase the products used in this post via my online shop. Or locally at my store located at 1861 Fairview Blvd Fairview TN.
Why We decided to paint the fixtures…
Picture this….my daughter and I are at Lowes looking at light fixtures. I’m thinking I’ll just buy some lighting parts and create a few light fixtures for the area above my counter in the new shop, when I see these $29 pendants have a light bulb moment! They’re glass and really not that bad looking, just not what I’m going for but the shape is perfect! I excitedly exclaim, “I’m going to get these and paint them”!??? And in the cart they go!
Now this is the part where I should mention that my daughter is standing there looking at me saying, “Mom, that is not going to work”, oh bless her….
Once we get home I’m so excited I can hardly get them out of the box fast enough. I grab some Debi’s Design Diary DIY Letterpress Gray and my sprayer and spray the insides of them first. Perfect!
Once the insides are all dry I take them inside and break out the Mermaid Tail….one of my absolute favorite colors!!!!
With my brush I applied two thick coats and then sealed the inside and outside with DIY Liquid Patina.
And next thing you know they’re dry and hanging in my new shop!!!
It really was that easy. NO PRIMING and NO SANDING! DIY Paint bonded to the glass like it was raw wood and now the lights look amazing and for a fraction of the cost of the original metal lights I had my eyes on.
The lights have now been hanging in the shop for several months and the paint is still perfect. I absolutely love them!
So now the question is have you tried DIY Paint? What’s your favorite color or the most unique thing you’ve painted with it? Leave a comment below and let me know. And click this link DIY Paint Shop if you’d like to order some paint and try it for yourself.
Thanks for being here I’ll see you soon!
Love them! The color is amazing! Uh, I’d probably been like your daughter…doubtful to say the least. Lol. I had no idea you could paint glass light fixtures. If I’d thought about it, I would have assumed the paint would bubble from the heat of the light. Amazing! 🙂
Thank you Cecilia. I have painted glass before but never lights fixtures. I figured it was worth the gamble the heat hasn’t been a problem at all. DIY paint stays on like glue!
🙂 Beth
Love what you have done with the lights and love the color! What is clay paint? Never heard of it.
Have a blessed day.
Hi Carol! DIY Paint consists of water, clay, porcelain clay, chalk, alcohol, ester (as a binder), cellulose, pigments and preservative. The clay and chalk work together to create a wonderful bond.
🙂 Beth
Hello, I just found your page and love your work. Me and my daughter-in-love are just starting on a furniture painting adventure. Can you give me the ‘formula’ for using DIY in a sprayer. I have the same one you have. Thanks so much.
Hi Cathy,
I don’t have a formula I just do it by memory at this point. I would suggest using the viscosity cup that comes with the sprayer so that you know you have the right consistency.
Thank you for reading,
Beth
Any advice on removing chipped paint from inside frosted globes?
I may try some easy off oven spray?
Then I was thinking of doing gold spray inside and flat black outside?
Do you need to prime?
Yours are so cheerful! 💙
Hi Eve,
Depending on how much paint I bet you could soak them with some glass cleaner and let them soak and it would wipe right off. You don’t need to prime chalk paint but other paints sometimes do require priming.
Good luck with your project.
Beth
I have glass globes that the paint chipped off. I tried several clear glass globes. Black metal globes. But nothing was quite right. My fixture is a wrought iron kinda French country style. I have not tried a paint stripper to get the rest of the paint off. But wondered if I could paint them an antique gold or like a mirrored mercury gold?
Any advice would be appreciated. I want it to be a French country look, if possible, whatever that will look like.
Hi Eve,
I think either of those would look really pretty!
Thank you for reading,
Beth