Because we have an OLD house that is difficult to heat and cool, we have ceiling fans in every room...except the bathrooms. Yes, I know all about people not liking ceiling fans these days, blah, blah, blah... But until one of those ceiling-fan-haters offers to pay my heating and cooling bills, we will continue to use them in our house.
We installed the ceiling fan in the dining room 17 years ago when we moved in. Towards the end of last summer, it started to make a humming noise that was ANNOYING! You could hear it really badly in the bedroom right above it...our bedroom! :( This year the noise was even worse so I went shopping for a new ceiling fan this week. WOW, the prices sure have gone up since the last time we bought fans in 2009!! Since the light worked just fine, I decided to go with just a fan that was light-compatible to save some money.
The new fan was oil-rubbed bronze, but the old fan and light were antique brass. So...once again...my trusty can of Krylon Oil-Rubbed Bronze spray paint to the rescue!!!
I took plastic grocery bags and wrapped them around the light sockets to protect them...
Not pictured, but I also took some brown packing paper and stuffed it in the electrical part where the fan and light meet and connect to protect it, too.
The weather was BEAUTIFUL today, so the paint dried quickly. TADA...perfect shade of oil-rubbed bronze...
You can see how it matches perfectly to the new fan...
LOVE IT!!! And the new fan is sooooooooooooooo quiet!!! BTW, this new fan is the Home Depot store brand, but the guy that worked in the department told me that they are made by Hampton Bay. (I prefer Hunter brand, but just didn't have the finances for it this time around.) I'm very happy with the way this turned out!
Loretta
Quote for the Day:
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
~Theodore Roosevelt
When we moved the sewing room into the former master bedroom, I immediately noticed that the lighting in there wasn't sufficient for sewing or quilting.
In 2010, when we remodeled the master bedroom, I specifically chose the ceiling fan and light to provide beauty and a diffused light to inspire a calming atmosphere. Unfortunately, when I am sewing or quilting, I need the room lit up like a landing strip!!! The ceiling fan was oil-rubbed bronze and the light's globe was Italian amber scavo glass.
The ceiling fan that was in the old sewing room was...well...functional. It was antiqued brass with just regular downward-facing, open, tulip-shaped globes.
At first I suggested to Andy that he switch out the ceiling fans with their respective lights.
Yeah. That went over REAL big!
Then I thought I could buy a new light kit to fit replace the amber glass glove in the sewing room. But that involved spending more money and then what am I to do with the beautiful amber glass globe?
Hmmm. Could we just do a swith-a-roo with the light kits on the two ceiling fans? But wait...the "metal" parts of the fans are different...one is oil-rubbed bronze and the other is antique brass.
The globe from the oil-rubbed bronze fan only has a small amount of metal on it so it works pretty well with the antique brass ceiling fan.
But this is what the light kit from the antique brass fan looked like.
How do I make it look right with this oil-rubbed bronze ceiling fan???
Enter...Krylon Oil-Rubbed Bronze spray paint!!!
Using newspaper, I covered the opening where the lightbulbs go and spray painted the rest.
And viola...
Not bad!!! And cheap, too! :)
It's so nice having adequate light in the new sewing room, now! :)
And I'm a happy girl!!!
Loretta
