A bit Rusty

Hello hello,

Hope you all enjoyed my living room reveal. We will be taking a better look around soon but I wanted to share with you all this evening a fun and easy project that I recently completed that I really enjoyed.

I bought this little beauty about  a month ago from a charity shop (£3.95 - Woop). I absolutley love it. Check out the little stars etched in to the glass. They reflect the candle light beautifully.

Well at first I just put it on my new sideboard and arranged bits around it. I just couldnt quite make it fit. It was too shiney.

I quite like chrome in certain  places eg my kitchen has plenty. But in this case it just looked too cold and stark. If only it was all rusty I thought. Then it would match the 2 bowls of nails that I pulled from the floor that now serve a decorative purpose along side the hurricane lamp.

So on to the web I went. I read literally dozens of forums and articles and found lots of good suggestions for actually rusting things. But aside from my impatience (and the fact that I'm not sure if chrome even can rust or not -I'm also not certain that its even chrome) I decided that I would find a quicker way of making this happen. Lots of blogs and articles call for peroxide - I don't have any peroxide and honestly I'm not sure how much I would use it even if I did. I found the product below after much searching and decided to go for it because it allows you to rust almost anything - wood, plastic,  you name it, you can rust it.

 It can be bought from here

So first off you need to prime the surface - spray on primer for me.

I went with a rust coloured primer just in-case I missed any,
Then you simply paint on the iron base coat and allow it to dry for 24 hours.

Once dry paint on the accelerant.

 Then watch it rust.

At this stage it looks a lot more orange than it does when its done. I kept applying accelerant until I was happy with the finish.

You can add a sealer at the end and for items that are going to be handled alot this is recommended.

I didn't bother as the base is just decorative and sits on the side quite happily.

So what do you think?