New Face for an Old Clock!!

I love things with character.  

This is not my idea of a clock with character!

Function yes, character no!  

When I came upon the following clock at DI for $3 I saw character!  

Yes, it needed a little help to make it pop, but it had great bones!

Here's what I did.  

Step one:

 I took off the decorative parts.  I just unscrewed the finial.  I thought the brass feet would also unscrew, but no.  So I just taped off the bottom as well as the glass part. 

Then I spray painted the clock with a coat of primer and then Krylon Blue Ocean Breeze.

Next I distressed it with some sandpaper and then I screwed the finial back on, and whala! 

"It looks kinda dark inside," Les said.

"What? It looks fine," I thought.

But he was right, soooooo.....

I went back to work. 

 I opened the back and unscrewed the clock face.  I pulled it out and carefully taped off the actual round face part with the numbers and clock hands.  

A coat of primer and white paint, and then light distressing. 

I put it all back together and Perfect!

Now I have a bedside clock with character and pizzazz!!

Here's a before and after shot.  

And it really only cost me $3, because the paint was left over from another project.

What do you think? 

 What kind of clocks do you like?

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