HANGING GLASS BUBBLE CHANDELIER UPDATE

They ARE pulling down walls and rewiring bathrooms.This modern looking pendant light completely changes the look of your home with its stylish design. LOTS more to do:Īs always, take some time to go visit all the featured designers below. Each week I’m tackling a handful of manageable projects and… in 6 weeks, I’m hoping you won’t recognize it! And lest you think the rest of the space is pulled together, fear not.

This room is all about incremental change… without losing our security deposit I can’t pull down any walls or lay down new floor, but I can continue to chip away at the space.

HANGING GLASS BUBBLE CHANDELIER UPDATE

I’m still kind of amazed that it worked and I have a tutorial coming soon! I love that fabric and next week I’ll chat a bit more about the various patterns coming into the space and hopefully have a curtain update for you! What’s up next? Well… I also upholstered this fun tufted bench.

But from the doorway does it look a lot like a bubble chandelier and help define the dining room space in the new house? YES! I’d say it does! Is this as wonderful as an actual glass bubble light? Obviously not. To use I simply grab the remote and all of my lights can turn on or off! The plastic orbs come apart just enough to reach in and remove the mini puck lights in case you need to replace or simply tighten their connection. Then I secure the canopy with two more screws which pinched the ceiling medallion in place! I drilled up through the mounting plate into the studs. First, I use my stud finder to find out where the studs in the ceiling were. The washer keeps the monofilament from pulling through the copper tube, but is think enough not to get in the way of the mounting bracket.Īt this stage, I also added a ceiling medallion to make the light fixture feel a bit more formal and legit. Once I found the right length, I tied each group of monofilament onto a metal washer. My chandelier has 10 orbs so I divided the orbs into groups of 3, 3 and then 4. I held all the monofilament in one hand and individually adjusted each strand to get a sense of where I wanted each orb to hang. Determine the length of each orbĪ second set of hands would have made this next step easier by far. I grabbed a basic pendant light kit so made sure to string the monofilament through the canopy and the mounting bar before Step 5. At this point, you also need to consider how this will hang in your room. You will have a handful of monofilament coming out of the pipe. Thread the monofilament through the pipe. I spray painted it white so it would blend in with the ceiling. I still used the copper pipe but just on 12″ length for the center. I tied triple knots around each plastic ball and left about a yard of monofilament. So I ditched the wire and replaced with monofilament. Buuuut… when I looked back at some inspo images, the ones I liked the most were clusters of glass orbs around a single center post. Originally I was planning to have each of the orbs connected to a small copper pipe that I was going to spray paint so I wrapped a thin gauge wire around each one (hence the wire in the photo below).

I used round adhesive velcro dots to adhere the LED light to the underside of the plastic ball. I used these mini LED lights because they were little and controlled by a remote (essential detail). It took a few different false starts before I figured it out, but I think it looks great so I’m declaring this one a success. And THEN I saw these large acrylic balls and realized I could just make regular ol’ bubble chandelier!

So then I started thinking about fixtures that might be lightweight and it occurred to me that it might look amazing to fill clear Christmas ornaments with LED micro lights. (Precision and I don’t get along very well…) Now let’s get into the challenges: We don’t have an outlet above our dining room table and we don’t have an outlet above our dining room table.Īt first I considered a fixture that I could rig with LED puck lights like this, but none of the ones I loved seemed like they would have anywhere to attach the lights. It’s ‘imperfect’… in other words there’s no need for precision. It doesn’t take up a ton of visual space which is great for our room with very low ceilings. Shop Now DIY (Non-Electric) Bubble Chandelierįirst, let’s start with what I love about this style.

Hanging glass bubble chandelier