Giving My Lanterns New Life

 I was going to call this a Lantern Glow Up, but then I wasn't sure anyone would know what I was talking about! Are any of you like that with modern slang? Knowing what it means, but unsure about using it?

Here is dictionary.com's definition - Glow up is an informal term for a positive personal transformation, typically one involving significant changes in appearance and style and often also growth in confidence and maturity (and sometimes aspects of personal or professional life).

That's basically what happened to these lanterns.

Here are their before pictures. Most of these are not in bad shape in these photos, but had become pretty beat up from being outside in all seasons!

This was the last time they got a 'glow up!' Painting them all black.

These photos were all take three years ago. They were looking good in their black paint.

You can see that I used them in many different ways outdoors.

This photo shows that some of the lanterns had been red, and the tall one was a brownish color.

Anyway, enough of the befores! 

Here is the after!

These are still in progress!

I wanted an antique gold or brass look and this can gave me that. Plus being Rust-Oleum it is helping with the rusty spots on a few of these lanterns.

As you can tell I brought the one inside and am loving it on the coffee table. The others will stay outdoors for use. When I am done with this project, I am going to repaint my round table, white not gold, and I have a few other small garden items that will get some paint as well, and those will be gold.

Have you given a 'glow up' to anything recently?

The link to the paint I used can be found {here}.

Spray Paint Is Our Friend

I use spray paint for many projects around our cottage home.  

I've spray painted frames, outdoor chairs, a metal table.  Yesterday, I freshened up some outdoor lanterns.

Two were brown, the rest were black that had faded over exposure to the weather.

This was a quick project!  I need to replace the glass in a few lanterns, and pick up some new candles, too! They look good really good and have been given new life due to a can of spray paint!  

This is the paint that I used.

I love a quick project that allows us to keep using items!  It's budget friendly, too, as for the purchase of a $3.99 can of paint, I was able to freshen up five lanterns!  To go out and buy five new lanterns would have cost a quite a lot.  Plus, I have at least half the can left!  Hey!  My outdoor lighting on the house needs to be repainted!

Now to get Tim to take them down for me, and I'm on it!  

Hey, Tim!