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 mild as effectively. Though, relating to desk lights, I can nearly 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 possibility 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, aspect 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 art work 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 view to create a way of steadiness within the room.
I first tried my hand at making my very own pendant mild again in 2008 after I made a lightweight product of plastic consuming straws. This was a enjoyable undertaking, however I by no means really used the completed mild in a room. We have been within the condominium on the time, and the colours weren’t fairly what I wished within the condominium.
I’ve all the time wished that I had made this mild out of 1 stable shade of straws. Even a stable white or stable clear plastic straw mild would have been very hanging.
After which in 2010, I made a lightweight made out of paper pulp egg cartons. I noticed these purple paper pulp egg cartons used as packing, and so they appeared too fairly to throw away, so I wished to provide you with a inventive use for them. However once more, I by no means really used this mild wherever. I ended up giving this one away.
Additionally in 2016, I made a semi-flush mild out of wooden for our music room. This mild hung in our music room for fairly a while. Sadly, I by no means received to see this mild within the completed music room. By the point I really completed the music room, I had already swapped this mild out for the capiz chandelier that we at the moment have within the music room.
I’ve all the time had a fascination with making my very own lights and developing 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 mild for my closet. I’m getting fairly near having the entire parts completed and able to be painted, put in, and fully assembled. If issues go as deliberate, I ought to have my latest mild creation prepared to point out off on Monday.
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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 may study extra about me right here.
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