Another Not-So-Small Clock Transformation

I've been wanting to post about another clock transformation that I recently worked on and I thought the fun My Project Under $15 link event at Maman Tattoos, Transformation Thursday at The Shabby Chic Cottage, DIY Day at Kimba's Soft Place to Land and Hooked on Fridays at Hooked on Houses would be a perfect reason to write about it today.

Back a couple of years ago, I found this little large beauty behind the counter at Goodwill. I asked to see it and it only took me a nanosecond to tell the cashier I was buying it. It came from Ballard Design and the original price sticker on the back of the clock says: Catalog Price - $289, Outlet price $215. Wow! I don't how much the person who had the clock before me paid for it, but do you want to know how much I shelled out at Goodwill that day?Don't you love finding good things in your closet...?

$12.99.

Uh-huh. You read it correctly - just $12.99!

The color, though, was all wrong for my cottage. My original plan was to paint it in an oil rubbed bronze finish similar to this clock at Pottery Barn. But I didn't have a place for the clock at the time, {and really, I still don't, though we are working on that}. So I stored the clock away until I discovered it in the back of my closet a couple of weeks ago. {Don't you love finding good things in your closet, as opposed to not-so-good things like - say - a mouse...or a sandwich?}



I thought the face was just fine as it was, so I removed it and put it aside so that I could work on the rest of the clock.



After a couple of coats of Rustoleum's Colonial Red, which I already had on hand, and some antiquing glaze - also in my d-i-y arsenal, she was transformed before my very eyes. From green and dowdy to...










Red and radiant!



I think she wears red really well, don't you?!

So total cost? $12.99 for the clock + the paint and glaze I already had on hand = Less than $15!

{Um. Is it just me or does the clock look bigger red than it did when it was green? *scratches head*}

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