Spray Painted Wall Light

If your fixture is attached to the siding or brick wall of your house cover the area with enough masking paper to protect the surface.

Spray painted wall light.

Then i taped on scrap paper and brown paper bags around the lights. The coat should be even and light unlike painting in which you apply one or two heavy coats. See that hole in between the lights. First i headed to walmart for my light bulbs and spray paint.

So i know the method works plus it stays put and looks great for the long haul. Diane got just the look she wanted with an inexpensive metal fixture from lowes and a can of spray paint. If you want to paint the fixture without removing it from its location you must mask around the fixture to protect adjacent surfaces from paint spray. First we took down the old fixture.

Use short quick light strokes so you don t blunt one area of the wall. Spray painting light fixtures. Dip a terry cloth or brush into the faux glaze paint mixture and begin to paint over the wall. That s where the old mirror cabinet was before see above.

The trick is to color wash the wall rather than actually paint it. Then on with my makeover. You don t want to get spray paint on your wall it s oil based and that wont work if you need to paint over it with latex. I used this same painting method on some fixtures in my bathroom over a year ago.