Before. After.
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Kenny found me this 1930s chandelier…
….which some ding-dong painted silver. With “hammered” paint, no less. Wanna see how it looked originally? Scroll down (while I crank up my time machine)…
…ZOUNDS! It’s the 1930s again!
ZOUNDS! Most of the fixture is cast brass. The ivory components (steel) have been repainted in their original ivory.
And, once again, something not particularly attractive has been made luscious and desirable.
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Your work is always amazing.
Mid West Chandelier if I am not mistaken (those finials)…
Bo!!!!!!!!!! Thank you!
Astounding. You have to wonder what they were thinking. Well, they wanted silver metal not gold metal. At least they didn’t get rid of the original shades.
This sort of thing makes me so angry. “Improving” or “fixing” an original piece that is just fine, just not contemporary or in style.
But not as much as when it’s furniture. I can’t bear to see a beautiful piece of vintage furniture get painted or cut up to make it chic or modern or for some no-talent to show off their crafty fix for what they think is an old piece of junk. The “shabby chic” movement destroyed so many beautiful pieces of vintage furniture. I’ve got a few furniture restoration subscriptions on YouTube that are my favorites. I love how you restore these self same insults to vintage lighting.
The third thing that sets me off is destroying a vintage home. Gutting a Craftsman of all of it’s detail, painting the wood or removing trim, replacing the original light fixtures with some modern stuff. Windows are the worst because I know that original windows last and last as long as they are well-maintained but modern windows are designs to be replaced every 10-20 years. I love Brett Waterman’s Restore. I am not very happy with some of the choices of The Property Brothers.