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Easy Wire Ball Lighting - DIY
by
Jennifer Priest
(IC: blogger)
$50
3 Hours
Medium
We’ve been remaking our family room after 6 years in this house. We bought it as repo and have been slowly repairing and updating the things left in disrepair by the previous homeowners. It’s been a huge DIY project but it has been rewarding to remake everything in our own way. One of the biggest challenges in this house was a lack of lighting when we moved in – they literally removed almost every single light fixture from the house when they left and there weren’t very many to begin with.
I like to craft small projects while watching TV and the light is so dim that I often have to bring in a table top light on an extension cord, which is a big production, or leave the kitchen lights on, which just sucks lots of energy and they are too far away to make much of a difference. I tried a table lamp and it wasn’t enough light. The corner of the family room would be a great place to put a ceiling light but ceiling fixtures are so expensive, difficult to wire, and then, what if we didn’t like a wired light fixture there after we installed it?
Here is one of the balls, closeup.
Here is the wire ball before we painted. For full instructions and tutorial, check out my blog post linked below.
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Published May 28th, 2014 12:00 PM
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