Out with the Can Light & In With the French Farmhouse Light

This is the hallway between our kitchen and our dining room. I have slowly been updating it. Three years ago I added the wood toppers to all the doors for some rustic farmhouse charm. Earlier this year I painted our command central door Rainwashed by Sherwin Williams and then painted the insets of the doors. All super easy things I was able to do on my own. The one thing I desperately wanted to do though required some outside help. I wanted to get rid of the one single can light.

I had been longing for this light fixture ever since I saw it in my friend Brenda's home. When I finally got around to buying it Lowes no longer carried it. Well to my delight they decided to bring it back and The Nana & The Papa bought it for me. A certain somebody may or may not be turning 40 this week!;0 They are out here spending Spring Break with us and Papa kindly swapped out the can light. I wish I could say I have a tutorial for that but honestly I did not have the heart to ask him to show me each and every step and take pics. Besides while he was working on taking the can light out I was outside making over the new light.

Yes, you read that correctly. I went outside and made over a perfectly beautiful brand new light fixture. Though I loved it as it was I wanted it to have a similar finish like our chandler in the dining room. 

It was a pretty simple finish to replicate. First I lightly sprayed everything using Rust-Oleum spray paint in Flat Chestnut.

I did not want full on coverage. I was after dimension in color.

Up next I used my trusty chalk paint.

I dried brushed a little of Old White and Old Ochre on. After that I wiped some of it away.

After I wiped some of it off I then applied some gold touches. I did a little more wiping off with a paper towel. I wiped off in a circular motion.

This is the final finish I came up with.

Here it is the new light in all of its glory in the hallway. It was so hard to get a good picture so that I could show y'all how magical and beautiful it looks. I am not a pro with the camera so I had issues with the glare.

It makes the prettiest shadows down the hallway.

I decided to take a pic of it at night with the flash to see if I could get a better pic. If you look closely you can see my assistant down at the end of the hallway watching me.

Mr. Front Porch thinks the light is a tad much for the space because it is full of sparkle but I think it totally makes the space. Next up I want to install beadboard down the hallway and eventually talk Mr. Front Porch into starting to plank the ceiling but that is going to be a hard sell. Wish me luck!;)

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