DIY Light Fixture From a Mixing Bowl

As always, I have been leisurely browsing Pinterest and different store's websites for months searching for inspiration. This time, my goal was to find ideas for a DIY Light Fixture for my oldest son's bedroom. When I found this industrial beauty from Pottery Barn Kids, I fell in love immediately. I just knew I had to make one. The only question I had was how? The shape of this particular fixture resembled a metal mixing bowl to me. That's when I put two and two together. Ah-ha! A DIY Light Fixture from a Mixing Bowl. That was a true light bulb moment!
First, I drilled three adjacent holes in the bottom of the mixing bowl. FYI, this process is much easier if you flip the bowl upside down first.
Next, I grabbed my metal cutters and snipped the bottom of the bowl to connect the three pre-drilled holes together. This took a little elbow grease, but nothing I couldn't handle.
Once the hole was big enough to fit the pendant light through, it was time to paint. I gave this cooking accessory a true makeover with three coats of Rust-oleum's Universal Metallic Spray Paint in Oil Rubbed Bronze.
Then, my husband started stripping. Wires, not clothes. He used the wire strippers to cut and expose the wires from the pendant light kit. This is how we transformed this simple, inexpensive kit from a plug in light to a hardwired fixture.


After that, we screwed the pendent kit through the pre-made hole in the dish. At this point it started to look more like a light and less like a painted bowl with a hole.


Then, we connected the wires from the pendant light to the wires installed in our ceiling.


Finally, we attached the fixture to the ceiling and we were done. Yay!
I am so excited with how this turned out! Love the industrial feel the new light adds to the room.
Elizabeth Joan Designs
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