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DIY birdcage chandelier

December 20, 2012by Christina
While I am still shopping for a light fixture for the living room, I have had one for our side entry way sitting on the living room floor for months.  Yesterday, I finally installed it. Here’s the fixture that came with the house: Fine looking, but not our style.  Here’s our new ceiling light: It’s […]

While I am still shopping for a light fixture for the living room, I have had one for our side entry way sitting on the living room floor for months.  Yesterday, I finally installed it.

Here’s the fixture that came with the house:

Replacing the old ceiling light

Fine looking, but not our style.  Here’s our new ceiling light:

DIY Bird cage light fixture

It’s actually not a light fixture, it is a giant birdcage/Moroccan lantern candle holder from Home Goods.  I just removed the candle holder parts, shortened the chain that was coming from the ceiling and hung it up by the handle.

DIY birdcage chandelier/Moroccan lantern

It actually wasn’t quite that easy, but it should have been.  I wanted to use the same light kit that was in the original fixture, but I cut the wires too short.  Boo.  The Hubs always says “Measure twice, cut once.”  And I forget every time.  Thankfully, there are always extra light kits from Ikea around our house.

Ikea’s Hemma cord set is a plug in light kit, but all you have to do to turn it into a hardwired cord is cut it to your length and carefully cut away the insulation to expose the wire.  These things are wonderful and at $5 a piece, they are cheaper than purchasing the separate parts to make your own.

Hardwiring Ikea light kit

So, the new light cost us $30 at Home Goods and an extra $5 for new cord set.  And if you don’t screw up and cut the cords too short, the whole project could be done in about 15 minutes.

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  1. onshore

    It’s beautiful! You chose a very good “shade”.

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  2. otterine

    Marvelous idea! 😀

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