Metal Hanging Planter Light #2

I know, more lighting projects. 

I'm crazy for lights and almost bought a great one at Ikea for Cami's room makeover, but what's the fun in having one everyone else has?

Here's Cami's new light fixture for her room that I made with metal hanging planter baskets and a dated light I found at H4H.

Cami's room had an ugly broken ceiling fan that needed replacing.  While I love the practicality of a ceiling fan with lights, I don't like the aesthetics of it. 

The fan is out.

Janell from Isabella and Max Rooms got my creative juices flowing when she blogged about her hunt for a dining room chandelier.  She showed these gorgeous chandeliers in wire cages by John Jacobs. 

Hmm, chandeliers in cages?

I also like this amazing vintage industrial chandelier made by Hudson Goods. 

It's priced at $4,500. That's double my monthly mortgage so it's not in the budget. 

I  made this light a couple of months ago for free using metal hanging planters and some stuff laying around my house.  To see how I did it go here.

I thought I could use the same idea to create a unique and fun light fixture for Cami's room. 

I started with this light fixture that I picked up from Habitat for Humanity Restore for $20.

Ugly and dated right?

Check out the shape of the chandelier under the glass umbrella.  It has 12 arms and nice curves.
This is what I'm interested in and what will become the center of the new light.

I also picked a light that had two pieces that were the same size that I could sandwich the metal basket between.  Also the metal needed to have a bigger diameter than the hole in the bottom of the basket.

I started by unscrewing the top to remove the glass umbrella.  See the brass fixture that I'm left with? 

This will become the interior of my light. 

After removing the glass I placed a metal hanging planter upside down on the light fixture.  I purchased two of these planters at Lowe's.  I like the circle design on the side of the basket.  It repeats the circle on Cami's new bamboo ottoman.

You might need to add a longer or shorter center screw to your fixture.  These can be purchased in any lighting department at any hardware store.

It's like building a puzzle.  I ended up not needing all the decorative metal pieces in the finished light.

Make a metal basket sandwich.

Make sure the hole in the bottom of the basket is centered before you tighten everything down.

Tighten it securely.

Now we are ready for paint.  I painted it gold first which I loved, but it wasn't right for Cami's room.  Then I repainted it silver.  I was going to use the clips from the hanging chain to attach the bottom of the basket together, but I found a better way to connect the two for this project.

I used left over chandelier crystals to connect the top and bottom basket together.

I added  some of my magnet crystals to the outside of the basket for some bling. 
I just borrowed them off another chandelier in the house. 

I used round globe light bulbs to match the circles of the baskets.

I found a ceiling medallion at Lowe's on clearance and painted it the same color as the walls.

The 12 arms of the original chandelier give off great light and the crystal's reflection give the walls an almost pool like, wavy water appearance.

For around $45 Cami has an unique chandelier that she loves. 

Do you have any fun lighting projects that gave you a unique accessory for you home?

I would love to hear about them.

Thanks for checking it out!

Update: To see how Mandi over at Vintage Rivivals used my metal hanging basket idea in her Epic Room Makeover go here.

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The CSI Project- I made the top ten!

I wanted to share with you that I just won an award for one of the Top Ten best Reduce, Reuse, Recycle project challenge from the CSI Project. 
Thank You to Beckie, Jen, and Amanda for creating a forum like this!

Janell Beals from Isabella and Max Rooms and the soon-to-be-released House of Fifty E-Zine was the guest judge and she picked my Metal Hanging Planter Light as one of the top ten projects.  Definitely check out Janelle's blog.  She is currently in the middle of redoing her dining room and it already looks amazing.

I am so honored and surprised by making the top ten.  There were so many amazing and creative projects!

Here are three of my favorites.  There were 200 entries so it was hard to pick just three.

Beautiful refurbished old suitcases form House of Chic and Pinoche  Unfortunately I couldn't add a picture of them to my blog?  But if you click on the link you can see how cool they are.

This amazing necklace from Easy Peasy Grandma

A toad stool from Dragonfly Designs. 



Thanks for letting me share my excitement with you and congratulations to all the winners!