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 properly. Though, with regards to desk lights, I can virtually all the time discover one thing in a retailer that fits my wants and desires.
However I take 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 think about the decrease half of a room since that’s the place the majority of the objects in a room go — sofas, chairs, space rugs, aspect tables, desk lamps, espresso tables, and so on. However I feel 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 attainable, 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 stability within the room.
I first tried my hand at making my very own pendant gentle again in 2008 when I made a light-weight made from plastic ingesting straws. This was a enjoyable mission, however I by no means really used the completed gentle in a room. We had been within the condominium on the time, and the colours weren’t fairly what I needed within the condominium.
I’ve all the time 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 putting.
After which in 2010, I made a light-weight 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 needed to provide you with a inventive use for them. However once more, I by no means really used this gentle wherever. I ended up giving this one away.
Additionally in 2016, I made a semi-flush gentle out of wooden for our music room. This gentle hung in our music room for fairly a while. Sadly, I by no means obtained to see this gentle within the completed music room. By the point I really completed the music room, I had already swapped this gentle out for the capiz chandelier that we presently have within the music room.
I’ve all the time 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 the entire 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 indicate off on Monday.
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I transform 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 the vast majority of the work on the home on my own. You’ll be able to study extra about me right here.
