In our last post, we revealed our plans to weld and spray paint this brass pendant we found:
People kinda freaked. Brass is not our thang, so we thought it was no big deal to take some spray paint to it. Apparently we struck a nerve with brass lovers, both in blog and in face-to-face comments.
Well, good news: the pendant is most definitely NOT solid brass! It’s also not copper. The brassy color is either a paint or patina. A commenter suggested it might be copper because of the way it’s gone green, but we polished down a section and it’s definitely not copper. We’re not entirely sure what it is — aluminum? steel? iron? — but we’re definitely going to follow through with our plans to spray paint that sucker. First we have to schlep it back to Brooklyn so Bradley can weld it.
We’re hoping to get it completely finished and ready to hang by next Saturday. In the meantime, we’ll be back with updates on our dining room reno. Stay tuned!
I was one of those people who freaked at the idea of painting your lovely light if it was brass, but since it’s not I’m now fully behind your painting plan! (I know – you were SUPER worried about that weren’t you?)
Have you decided what colour? I vote for something bright and fun
As usual, we’re going back and forth between 5 colors. It’s so much harder now that Krylon has started making so many colors!
Ooh, what five colors? I love all the Krylon spray paint colors now, too, and it goes on so much nicer than it used to. I’ve been dying to paint something a nice eggplant purple but nothing that should be that color has turned up yet.
Well, Leena, people would realy freak out at our house. All our bathroom fixtures were brass from the 1980s and all the light fixtures from the same era. It really dated the house. So about four years ago we started replacing the light fixtures with rubbed bronze fixtures. Then, Charles moved on to the the ceiling fans. He took all of them apart and painted the individual brass pieces. He then reassembled them and rehung them. They look beautiful. When he retired a year ago he promised me he would remodel/refresh the bathrooms. Since two of the baths were covered in wallpaper it was quite a job. Took him two months but now we have no wallpaper, retextured walls, painted walls, brass fixures either replaced or repainted with rubbed bronze paint. Looks like a new house and we don’t regret painting over all that brass. So, one man’s treasure is another man’s trash. Can’t wait for you and Brad to see all this. You know first-hand how hard this kind of work is…
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