Tiffany Trifecta

When I craigslisted the silverred chairs a few months ago the seller gave me this printer stand/file cabinet. Its a solid piece and I love revamping stuff so I said Thank You! and proceeded to ignore it until this week.

As always I forgot to take a before picture. So here it is in its "two paint strokes in" glory. See my teeny paint tray and foam roller? $3 for the set at Home Depot and I cannot recommend it enough. Its perfect for tiny projects like this and keeps those blasted paint strokes away.

I painted it with contrasting knobs and sat back to contemplate. Actually I went on-line and visited Dragonfly's blog and was suprised to see she'd just garage saled a piece that looked a lot like this one!

I bought $3 stencils at Michael's using their 50% coupon.

See how one of the dots in the stencil is sticking straight up? I didn't catch that one when I was busy popping the rest out. Ahh the perils of cheap stencils ;)

While the paint was drying I turned to my old lampshade. Two houses ago I had a red bedroom (seriously - it had red carpet and curtains) which I'd accented with more red and white.

I'd sewn red ribbon inside the lampshade so when the lamp was on red showed through. When it was off it was a very generic white shade.

I removed the red ribbon and stenciled the shade in blue. This is not a job for perfectionists! Not a single fleur is perfect which I say adds charm ;) The lamp is a Target find from 3ish years ago and see that thing hanging on the wall over the lamp?

This was a garage sale freebie originally done in a coppery color. I sprayed it months ago and set it aside too. This week I painted the border to match the lamp and stand.

I used 3M hooks to attach it to the wall. Each hook is supposed to hold 5lbs so lets cross our fingers and hope they keep their promise!

The grey on this piece is a lot brighter in real life. One of these days I'll take pictures while its still sunny out ;)

I put one of my many new mirrors on top because I like shiny things.

You can click on the picture above for a larger view. I want to spray paint an existing wicker trash can white (and probably put a blue band on it) and then this trifecta will be a perfecta :D

I am participating in Trash to Treasure