I’ve been meaning to repaint/replace our front porch sconces for some time now. They have been sporting a lovely worn brass finish with green cruddy accents. Lovely, no? Ummm, could that even be considered brass?
A few weeks ago I had my handy Papa take them down for me. After surveying the condition, we determined that this was nothing a couple coats of spray paint couldn’t handle! Papa took them home to his sandblaster and blasted the crud off of them for me. That left them with a fresh and smooth finish, reading for painting. It was so pretty that I almost left them that matte gold tone finish, but I finally decided just to paint them. I chose satin black Rustoleum for a classic, all-weather finish. After three good coats, they were ready to be reassembled and reinstalled. Last week, we finally got them back up. What a nice transformation.
I went ahead and spray painted the house numbers, too. I wanted to get new ones that were less round-ish, but I figured, who really notices what your house numbers look like? Stop being insane and paint the dang things! :) So I did. And they show up against the tan house color much better now.
I also put spruced up my front door wreath for Fall! It was feeling like Fall out this weekend!
Can’t wait… I’ll have more Autumn decorations to show you soon!
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