Thursday, May 20, 2010

Ceiling Fan Redo

I've been on a cleaning and redecorating kick lately.  My house is FILTHY!!!  I don't know why, I think I cleaned it really good about a year ago!

The ceiling fan in our dining room is old and needed something besides this ugly wood look.  The opposite side was a rattan look, which was worse than this. 


I first thought I would paint them black, but had a bright idea to cover them with fabric.  I bought this piece of fabric at a garage sale 2 years ago.  I didn't have a clue what I would do with it, but loved the western theme.

I just cut the fabric larger than the fan blade, used spray adhesive, and now a new look for our fan.  In hind sight (which is always better), I would have painted the edges black and just cut the fabric the size of the blade.  Overlapping at the top & the tips was a pain and I think it would have been easier to do it that way. 



Yee Haw!!

3 comments:

Son said...

I'm trying to imagine what it looks like when it's on. hmmm...

Midway Records said...

Horse hair flying everywhere!!

The Autocrat: Haley said...

Fabric instead of paint!! What a great idea! On another blog I saw where a lady painted her gold ceiling fan with spray paint! It looked fabulous and I was thinking I should do mine too but was unsure about the blades, but you have given me much needed inspiration!! I am sooo using fabric! Thanks for sharing your great idea!