Lamp Restoration Project

This cute lamp came from The Clark Barn too! Isn't it amazing!?

Yesterday I began work on it by disassembling the lamp, removing all wiring, and cleaning.

There was a ton of dirt and rust so I had to remove the rust before painting. That was quite the project in itself!

Today I used special primer to stop/prevent rust. And this evening I put the first coat of paint on it. I want it to look similar to how it would have originally looked so I plan to paint the white parts on it an antique shade of white, and the brass parts an antiqued bronze look. The brass is badly rusted so unfortunately I can't just polish and clean it.

I love to paint so that's the easy part. The hard part will be wiring the lamp. I've been reading online and the lamp requires 2 3-way switches. From what I've read it seems pretty complicated... the only thing I've ever done is rewire a normal lamp... Hope I don't screw up.

After the wiring is all done I have to get a glass diffuser for the "Mogul" light bulb, and then a lamp shade.

I hope it is really cool once I am all done! If anyone knows anything about this lamp, or about this type of lamp let me know!

Barn Crafts 3

Barn Crafts 2

First I fixed up those camp stools and painted them a robin egg blue color then I made new seats for them with fabric from Home Fabrics.

The second project I did was on an old window. Some of the glass had broken in the window so I decided to take the glass out. Then I sanded the window down and gave it a new coat of paint. This paint is a very pale yellow. Next I added some chicken wire, and now using some clips that I also found in the barn I can hang pictures from the chicken wire.

Barn Crafts

My Grandparents-in-Law, Hal & Marlene Clark, live a couple miles away from us in Rigby. They have an old barn that is full of "junk," so naturally, I wanted to snoop around. Here are a few fun things that I found and fixed up! I have more projects to work on and then I will post more pictures!