Again, light and patient layers are the way to go here — the smooth, round surface tends — no, WANTS — to create drips that will ruin your finish; don't let it.
Am I making this whole process seem relatively easy and painless? More truth-telling: this was the project that never ended. First I painted the light a semi-gloss black and went through the rest of the project almost to the end before deciding that I really preferred the more muted color of the dark bronze paint and took it all apart and redid the whole thing.
Then, actually coming up with a way to construct the gold band was incredibly frustrating. It needed to be light, flexible and I needed a way to attach it both to itself and to the light fixture. I combed the house, I combed the hardware store and craft store, and I just didn't find any solutions I liked.
Finally, this project popped into my head where a blogger used vertical blinds to make an incredible woven headboard and I remembered the stacks and stacks of vertical blind slats I'd been hoarding in the garage this whole time. Light: check. Flexible: check. Easy to attach? We'll get to that soon . . .
