Painting smoke detectors

When we added the new room last year, and had an electrician around, I had him do some updates here and there in the rest of the house. One was replacing smoke detectors.  This one was white when installed and I ignored it for a year, much like the one up high in the 15' peak of the space we built.

I don't know why I didn't fix it right away. It is such a simple thing to do.

The trick is to not paint very heavily. I use a chip brush dipped into my paint, then wiped off slightly to have a dry brush effect.  Lightly, lightly, with barely any paint on the brush, I daintily add a little color to the detector.

Then let it dry, and do it again, slowly building up tint.  But not clogging or blocking anything.

I can promise you that the appliance still works, because when I burn cookies, it screams at me, even with a coat of paint on it!

And it almost disappears on the wall now.

The new slipcover, is actually a duvet cover.  It is too big so is tucked under the cushion, but not in a very tidy way.   I still love it with the soft tones of my vintage fabric pillows.

 And since I'd washed the previous slipcover on the steam setting of the washing machine (oops!) I needed a quick replacement and had no time to sew.

Hopefully, everyone will be gazing at the new and improved smoke detector and not even notice the messy job I did.

HAHA!

Comments

[Yvonne Welty]

What an inventive way to hide the smoke detector. Love the slipcover.