Updated Lamps April Thrifty Style Team

Welcome to the April edition of the Thrifty Style Team, where I try to prove that I have an eye for rescuing some cast off or worn out piece of junk from a garage sale or thrift store.

For April I have updated a pair of rescued twins.

Twin lamps.

The twins started out as a pair of large brown ceramic ginger jars lamps, standing 27 inches tall to the top of the shades.

$5.00 for the set.

Allow me to amaze you with my mathematical genius.... that's $2.50 per lamp.

The price is why they came home with me, as well as the color - I have a lot of chocolate brown around here, which is probably why I constantly want a Dove bar.  The treat, not the soap.

The thing with the twins was they didn't have shades.

I figured I would buy some new shades, that is until I spotted two ancient shades at a different garage sale.

The shades were a buck each.  No one would want them, the fabric was old and yellowed, but the shape was nice underneath.

It was the shape and not the fabric I was after.

So I removed the old fabric (which if you have ever tried to do that you know it's not as easy as it sounds) and the twin brown lamps went on the bedroom dresser to stay just like that.

Doily to protect fresh white paint from getting on dresser because I'm impatient.

But I never intended to leave the lamps brown.

In the home improvement store last week I saw this "Milk Glass" spray paint so I decided to give it a whirl.  It must be more special than regular white or off white spray paint with a fancy name like that right?

I don't know if the paint was special or not, but I like how the lamps turned out.

I primed them with a lighter color primer so as not to use up all the more expensive Milk Glass paint while covering up the brown.  It still took three coats of the Milk Glass spray to give them a uniform look.

I used one can of paint between the twins.

I also gave the metal shades a coat of a light industrial gray color to freshen them up.

Not everyone that passes by the master bedroom "gets" this naked shade look.

I happen to like it because I can see the Edison bulbs which look cool at night.

If you are keeping track on the cost of these large lamps, let me help you out..... including the spray paint I have invested roughly $5.50 per lamp for a total of $11.00 for the pair.  Much less than just one lamp shade.  I think that's a pretty thrifty April redo!

So what about the rest of the Thrifty Style Team?  

Do you think they have naked shades on twin lamps as an April redo?  

You won't know what they've thrifted unless you click over and check out their thrifty finds:

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Check out the other Thrifty Style Team finds from Bliss Ranch....
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Maple Syrup Tote

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