Wednesday 30 November 2011

Master Bedroom Light



 
A week or so ago, I was walking through Bunnings (a home improvement/hardware store) and was blinded by bling.  Unfortunately I only had my phone with me, and the photos don't do justice as to the amount of sparkle theses light fittings had but let me just say I needed sunglasses!




Although not a bad price at $169, I decided that I could make one cheaper.  So I used the above photos as inspiration.  Walked down the aisle a bit and found myself a drum shade for $25.

Before, I go on I want to show you what I had before.


Yes, there it is the $5 plastic shade from the builders. 

I had upgraded to this shade, which I bought, and loved.  In fact I still love it, it was just too small for the space.  It is now in the main toilet, and looks great there I must add. :-)


And, so onto the drum shade.  It fits in the space beautifully

 And I love the linen texture.



I slept on this for a day or two trying to figure out what I was going to hang chrystal beads off.  Then I remembered I had a perfectly good shade on a disgraceful brass touch lamp (that was broken - the base had come apart).


I dismantled the shade.


and attached the left over rings to my drum shade with wire.

The wire I decided looked ugly.  I ended up buying 1 metre of chain and spray painted the rings and chain white.  I then attached that to the drum shade.  I ended up turning what would have been the top of the dismantled light, upside down.  I don't have any pictures, but I strung my own beads with fishing wire and attached these to the centre ring. 

I bought the beads from Spotlight (a crafting store) (for about $40) and asked assistance from the staff, on how to best string the beads, the were very helpful.  But I am sure if you google stringing beads or jewelry making, you would find some helpful tutorials.


I'm not sure that I liked the look of my light fitting at this point, but I hadn't done anything that couldn't be removed.  I wanted to do something similar to the outside ring, as per my inspiration light fitting, and have lots of chrystals dangling down.  But it was going to cost me a small fortune to buy all the beads, and it would have been cheaper to buy the inspiration light fitting.  Hmmmm

I could buy some necklaces.  As it happened I walked into a charity shop today and found a necklace that had some beads, but not enough for what I wanted.  For $7 I bought the necklace and decided I would just keep my eyes open for more beads.

In the meantime, I got thinking, because the necklace had chain links, then rather than restringing the beads, I could somehow attach the chain to my light.  I draped the necklace over the outer ring, just to see how it would look...


 ... and that is where it stayed.  I think it looks great.


Inspriation Light ($169)

 My Original Version ($72) Which could be done cheaper if you had lots of costume jewelry floating around.

I just hope Hubby likes the bedroom bling 

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17 comments:

  1. I think it looks great! Plus it is something you can always add to as you find a pretty piece to add more bling. have a good day.

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  2. So pretty! I can see why the original fixture caught your eye...and you've done a beautful job recreating it!

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  3. Love it, bling makes everything better :)

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  4. Nice tutorial. I like the way you upcycled stuff you had, and also how you let us in on your thought process. Thanks. I found you at Handy Man Crafty Woman.

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  5. This looks great. I love finding item that I love that are out of my price range and recreating them myself. I saw your post on Blue Cricket Designer. Great job!

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  6. Great job!! Very Creative! Your newest fan!!

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  7. This is neat! So creative. I really like your version. New follower here. Would love it if you would stop by and share this at my linky party going on right now :) http://everything-underthemoon.blogspot.com/2011/11/bedazzle-me-monday-10.html

    Have a great week!!

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  8. You are so creative! Great idea...now I can get rid of all those booby lights. I'm a new follower too.

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  9. What a fun idea. I am totally inspired. Now I have to decide which room to make one of these in... :)

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  10. You did an amazing job with your shade. Our Bunnings doesn't have such cute lampshades, but I did drool over some of Beacon's chandies this weekend:)God bless x

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  11. Great idea! What a fun way to add a little bling to the bedroom! I'd love to have you come and link up your creativity to the Head to Head Showdown at www.icantstopcrafting.blogspot.com ~Jen

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  12. Seriously this is really a gorgeous light. You sure added bling with it, but not over done. You should get a patent for this, cause it's going to be big. Thanks for sharing over at Sunday's Best.

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  13. Bling it out baby!Thank you so much for linking up your lovely project at Get Schooled Saturday. We will be open for business again Friday night-Sunday night!
    Kim @ Too Much Time
    www.kim-toomuchtimeonmyhands.blogspot.com

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