Goodwill Treasures #1

I bought this God awful candelabra from Goodwill a couple weeks ago. It was $3. Lately, D keeps asking me what I am gonna do with it or where I am gonna put it. (It was really ugly originally.) So i decided to do something with it so he'd stop asking.

It was super tarnished and dirty. First, I washed it. Next I wanted to clean it up and get rid of the tarnish. I didn't know if the silver plate would be pretty once cleaned up. Now, I don't know if you know this, but silver and silver plating can be cleaned very easily using toothpaste. I put it on a wet rag and then just rub.

Look at the difference in the picture below. Its kind of hard to see. The tarnished, unclean, side is towards the top of the picture. The cleaned potion is on the lower part of the picture. It literally took me less than 15 minutes to clean the whole thing.

I decided to spray paint the thing. I would have love to do it in white, but I had lack on hand. So that's what it got. The black will match the bathroom anyways. I had to do a couple coats, and they were sheer. The finish didn't want to hold the paint. So I did several light coats and then I had to let it sit forabout 18 hours before it was dry.