A Look Back At My Fascination With Making My Own Unique Lighting

I completely love distinctive lighting in a room, and whereas I primarily love distinctive pendant lights and chandeliers, I do love an attention-grabbing desk gentle as effectively. Though, in the case of desk lights, I can virtually at all times discover one thing in a retailer that fits my wants and needs.

However I have a look at pendant lights and chandeliers as not solely sensible items due to the additional lighting they supply, however I additionally see them as a chance so as to add one thing sculptural or creative to a room. I’ve heard (and seen) that most individuals consider the decrease half of a room since that’s the place the majority of the gadgets in a room go — sofas, chairs, space rugs, facet tables, desk lamps, espresso tables, and many others. However I believe each room wants one thing to attract the attention as much as the highest half of the room, which is why I additionally place a great deal of emphasis on attention-grabbing paintings for partitions, wallpaper, murals, curtains/draperies that go as excessive as potential, fairly curtain rods and rings, and attention-grabbing pendant lights and chandeliers. The highest half of the room wants adorning simply as a lot as the underside half with a purpose to create a way of steadiness within the room.

I first tried my hand at making my very own pendant gentle again in 2008 when I made a light made of plastic drinking straws. This was a enjoyable mission, however I by no means truly used the completed gentle in a room. We had been within the apartment on the time, and the colours weren’t fairly what I wished within the apartment.

I’ve at all times wished that I had made this gentle out of 1 stable coloration of straws. Even a stable white or stable clear plastic straw gentle would have been very placing.

After which in 2010, I made a light made out of paper pulp egg cartons. I noticed these purple paper pulp egg cartons used as packing, they usually appeared too fairly to throw away, so I wished to provide you with a artistic use for them. However once more, I by no means truly used this gentle anyplace. I ended up giving this one away.

Additionally in 2016, I made a semi-flush light out of wood for our music room. This gentle hung in our music room for fairly a while. Sadly, I by no means acquired to see this gentle within the completed music room. By the point I truly completed the music room, I had already swapped this gentle out for the capiz chandelier that we at present have within the music room.

I’ve at all times had a fascination with making my very own lights and arising with one-of-a-kind lighting. Maybe I missed my true calling, and I ought to have been a lighting designer. 😀

And now I’m getting one other alternative to make a novel, one-of-a-kind gentle for my closet. I’m getting fairly near having all the elements completed and able to be painted, put in, and utterly assembled. If issues go as deliberate, I ought to have my latest gentle creation prepared to point out off on Monday.

Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I rework and adorn the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do nearly all of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.

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