Flashback... Ceiling Fan Make-Over!

It's funny once you really get into the blogging world when you see which one of your posts gets the most traffic onto your blog.  When I first started blogging, I was just happy if one of my friends read it:) And I still am- please still keep reading my friends!! But now that I have been around for a little while, I understand a bit more about demographics (Hi New Zealand peeps).

The following was one of my very first posts- so many of you will not have ever seen it- unless you are a true, loyal follower and you have read every single one of my amazing posts...
so yea, most of you haven't see it it- so here is a flashback to my biggest hit blogpost! Enjoy the ceiling fan excitement!!

Ok- so how many of you have this....

in your house? Go ahead... just admit it! It's Brassy and it's just eating at you every time you look up at it! OK, maybe that is just me- but it has been bugging me for the last four years we have lived in this house- but it works... so the moola to replace it was hard to justify.
Sooooo.... what to do? take a baseball bat to it Paint it! Why not? ok, what paint... well how about some craft paint and some spray paint and whatever else I feel like using because why the heck not?! can't look worse in my mind.
So I started by getting up there to see what that fan was all about- it's not that hard people- it is just a couple screws holding each blade on- so- off the blades came! and then a couple more screws and off the metal brackets off of the blades came!
Took those pieces outside and found my fave spray paint... Rust-oleum's ORB (Oil Rubbed Bronze) and a glossy white I had to touch up the blades

a couple quick coats...

but now the interesting part... I wasn't even thinking of taking the base down as I am not an electrical wizard... so it would have to be painted where it was.  I found a paint that reminded me of the ORB and got a nice sponge to start putting it on and it was SCARY!!! 

that first coat was making me rethink my path in life... but then I slapped myself  pulled myself together and that second coat was making me pretty happy!! A third and a couple of careful sprays of ORB (holding a piece of paper to block the ceiling) and to make it all a little smoother looking and then came.... The Happy Dance!!

and the oh crap, I have to pick the boys up at school and better not have a ladder and paint in the middle of the family room when they get home dance!!!

So I am sure you are just on the edge of your seats at this point for this major ceiling fan reveal... all Extreme Home Make-Over-esque... Move That Bus!!!!

I mean it makes me Stupid Happy to look at that fan now! and some new glass will make me happy once I find the right ones:) 

So... goodluck... I will be tackling one Dumb-Brass fixture at a time... get it? I did do one other little one in our powder room that I will share later- 

xoxo,

Bee