Flash Back Friday!!

The weekend has finally arrived!  Woo Hoo!!!

 

I thought I would share a few lamps that I made last fall.  There is something funky about Industrial and Steampunk that I am drawn to and I just start making things.

Most of the lamps are made from old, vintage or antique items that I repurposed as lamps.

 

The first lamp is an old Atwater Kent speaker that I picked up from an Estate Sale that only had the fabric intact.  I removed the fabric and sanded the rusty thing down (sorry I cannot find the before pictures) and hand painted the entire thing with metallic paints.

                                            The neat thing about this lamp is the 4 light bulbs. 

 This lamp has all new wires and lamp sockets.

                                                             The entire finished speaker lamp from the front.  I kept the original name plate in the front and reattached when I was finished painting.  

                                        The back of the speaker lamp with the original number plate attached.

I painted the entire piece by brush.  I like the look of the metallic paint brushed on.

This is metallic silver.

The base of the lamp and the front of the lamp I used a metallic copper paint.  Again, I brushed it on and it has a different texture/look then the silver.

 

FOR SALE $125 includes the bulbs

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This little lamp is just recycling of some copper pipe that once was used for plumbing.  The light socket is also recycled from an old lamp. 

 

SOLD 

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This lamp was an old heater.  I kept the green flakey paint as I found it as well as the patina on the copper.  I added new wires and socket and a bulb cover.

Bulb cover closed up around light bulb.

Bulb cover opened up.

Back of the housing.

 

FOR SALE $68

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This lamp was another of my favorites.  I used galvanized pipes, old valves and a timing chain gear.  Not sure why this picture is so darn small!!!  UGH! (still learning).

 

 

SOLD

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Thank you very much for visiting with me on this Flash Back Friday!!

 

 

                                                                                                                                                                                               



Bathroom Re-do 2014

Morning!!

Please allow me to apologize now for the way this blog is being created.  You see, if it were as easy as remodeling a bathroom or repainting an older piece of furniture...I would have no problems.

Small Bathroom Re-do...(please hang in there)

I got the bug to "refresh" my very small (and only) bathroom when one of the tiles on the floor stuck to my bare foot and came out.

It was not so bad, it took me a total of an hour to remove all these little tiles and clean up.

 

I wanted to use wood in the bathroom.  Yes wood.  If it is prepped properly it should be fine.  And beside, I find myself bored with a room after 3 or 4 years, so I will be looking for an alternative then anyhow.

I chose select pine boards in sizes 1x2, 1x3 and 1x4.

In this picture, you can get a peek at the floor as it was going down and while it was still naked.

I wanted the seams to show and the screw heads also. 

This is what the floor looks like with 3 coats of stain and only 1 coat of  matte finish poly.  (I plan on adding 3 more coats of poly).

 

Then it was onto the walls...they where just regular walls and I added bead board from the floor up to almost 4 feet on two walls.

 

Here are some random pics of some simple storage solutions I came up with.  Not may options in a small bathroom.

 I used a few canning jars for Q-tips and cotton balls.  I secured them to the wall with clamps.

 I used a vintage 4 mini loaf pan for each of our daily used items on the back of the toilet. 

I stained two crates that I hung on the wall to hold our towels.



Notice the medicine cabinet?  This is what it looked like when I brought it home...

This is what it looks like now.

 

So, just as I thought I was ALMOST done with the bathroom, I decided that I wanted a different sink or just a different sink base.  I had a Singer sewing machine base out in the yard for years just rusting away.  So I dug it out of 4 inches of snow and used a torch to remove the frozen tundra from under the legs and brought it in the house. 

 

Boy was she rusty!!!

 

Well, it is freezing cold here in Wisconsin and I do not have an area to spray paint that is ventilated enough so I had to paint it with a small 1/2 inch brush.  Not too bad though, 1 hour and 2 coats of paint!

And now for the top.  I wanted to use a butcher block top but the cost was way more than I wanted to spend (I have a budget to stick to) and I only needed half of the size sold in the stores so I found this

 

It was the right depth but twice as long and a little too thin so I figured I would stain half,

 

and cut in half

My cut line and my jig clamped to the wood so I stay on track. 

 The two pieces of lumber, one half stained (the top) and the other half naked so it can be glued to the bottom of the top piece.

Here are the two pieces glued and clamped together.  Remember to use clamp safety.  You do not want to mark/scar your wood with the imprint of the clamp end.  I just used paint sticks.  Once the glue dries, clean any excess off and stain the ends and underside (if it will be seen).

 



Here is the top, glued together, stained, attached to base and marked with the hole for the sink.

 



Here is the top with a pilot hole.

 

AND FINALLY...

Not sure why the bottom picture is blurry.  It is not on any other image and every time I remove it and reapply it, it comes out blurry.

 

Most of the items I had around the house.  I was able to do the bathroom re-do for $100.  That is not a realistic price for most.  I have all the tools already, I had left over paint, I had all the hardware needed (screws, clamps), I had the caulk, stain, poly and wood glue all on hand from my day job as a Handy Woman!  I purchased only the wood for the floor and the sink top, the black suit case for the medicine cabinet and the 4 crates.

 

I hope you enjoyed my long, very long and winded first blog ever and the first time I shared pics of before, during and after a project and the comments also!

Thank you!!!