Painting lanterns

After we moved to our current house, the men started the renovation.

It was a time of much noise and dust, the tiles of our complete floor

had to be removed in order to install a new concrete layer

to enable the solar energy pipes and system to work.

 

At that time there was not yet much participation needed from me

 (or so I thought)...

 

So, inspired by this idyllic picture

 

 

...I remembered these storm lanterns that we brought to Spain from our house

 in the Caribbean.

They had been left behing by the former owners of that house

 and I have a tendency of always taking with us something of the past.

 

The red color of these lanterns never spoke to me and I started with one

 of these to get rid of the red paint: dissolvent first, then sanding, buf buf, and halfway this job

 my DH saw what I was doing (while he was working that hard, oh my)

.......

 

and he suggested to wait with this until the house was finished

and I reluctantly had to admit that he might be right,

 

so I put the lanterns away

 

This week I rediscovered the lanterns

and since I have this new hobby to renew, repurpose and recycle

I started with the one lantern that was half stripped of paint and

 the other half rusted, haha!

As for me letting them completely rust would also have been an option, but DH hates rust...

 



 

I probably have to put on at least one more layer

of the black anti rust paint

 

 

but this is how it looks

after this morning's job

 

Happy Painting..!

 

Regina