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<p>[QUOTE="FlyingButtonRanch, post: 56560, member: 582"]Decorative collectibles can be hard to sell, especially a vase. People think DUST. LOL </p><p><br /></p><p>If you aren't going to keep it, IMHO could be made more desirable by re-purposing and fitting it with a small bulb as a table lamp or night light if there is room to do it in the bottom. Any hole in the bottom or opening at one of the glass pieces (or could you make one)? </p><p><br /></p><p>If it was mine, I'd shabby-chic it up a bit... paint the iron with white paint... a bit of rust or light yellow colored wash over that (maybe crackle it over the white) to give it an aged look. It would look nice in a blue/white (and /yellow) theme room then and lighten up the piece a bit? *shrugs*[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="FlyingButtonRanch, post: 56560, member: 582"]Decorative collectibles can be hard to sell, especially a vase. People think DUST. LOL If you aren't going to keep it, IMHO could be made more desirable by re-purposing and fitting it with a small bulb as a table lamp or night light if there is room to do it in the bottom. Any hole in the bottom or opening at one of the glass pieces (or could you make one)? If it was mine, I'd shabby-chic it up a bit... paint the iron with white paint... a bit of rust or light yellow colored wash over that (maybe crackle it over the white) to give it an aged look. It would look nice in a blue/white (and /yellow) theme room then and lighten up the piece a bit? *shrugs*[/QUOTE]
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