How To Paint A Lampshade with Chalk Style Furniture Paint
Have you ever thought about painting a lampshade? It’s so quick and easy to do! Just follow these steps:
Step 1) Spritz the fabric with water
Spraying a bit of water onto a fabric surface will help the paint glide on more smoothly, especially if your fabric is thick or textured.
Work in sections: spray an area with water, paint it, then spray the next section with water.
If you’re painting a very smooth, tight-weave fabric, you may not find this step is necessary.
Step 2) Apply a coat of paint
You can use any Country Chic Paint color for this technique. The sky’s the limit! For this example, we chose Liquorice, a pure black.
You can use any synthetic bristle paint brush for this project, but our favorite is this Oval Paint Brush.
Step 3) Apply a second coat, if required
Depending on the paint color you use and the original color of the lampshade, you may find that you’ll need a second coat to achieve fully opaque coverage.
Step 4) Paint the lamp base (optional)
If you like the lamp base as-is, go ahead and leave it that way!
For our example lamp, we chose to warm up the color of the base a bit with a coat of this muted brown color called Driftwood.
If your lamp is a spindle shape like ours, try painting it with a sponge! They apply paint so quickly and easily on tricky shapes like spindles, and you won’t get all those little brush strokes that you’d see with a traditional paint brush.
And Voila! She’s all done.
TIP: Use an LED bulb with your newly painted lampshade to avoid heat damage.
