Cool Baby! Updating a $68 Builders Ceiling Fan
We live in Arizona and it's hot. H-O-T!! So as we melted away in our kitchen, installing a ceiling fan has been To Do #1. It helped when we hit a sale at the local hardware store and brought home a $68 standard builders ceiling fan. Useful but oh-so boring! With the help of a $10 metal farmhouse basket, some vintage metal flowers and a light kit, we easily and quickly took it from dull to "cool"...
Start with your standard, 'plain jane' ceiling fan. We purchased a large ceiling medallion, which we installed first on the ceiling. Immediately, this takes it from standard to high end. The next purchase was a light kit, all of which can be found at your local hardware store.
Prior to installing the ceiling fan onto the ceiling, we used a $10 wire metal farmhouse-style basket and turned it upside down. We used wire snips to cut an opening through its bottom. It was then secured with bailing wire around the light kit.
The goal is for the basket to be sandwiched between the fan and the light kit. With the basket attached, we affixed some vintage metal flowers onto the basket, securing them with floral wire.
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Literally and figuratively, it's "Cool Baby"!
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Looks really nice. From experience fans build up a lot of dust seems like just something else to dust.
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I don’t think it would be more to dust than your average light kit with 3-4 glass shades.
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Very creative!
But looks like a nightmare to keep clean , what do u do ?
Can't just blow dust off , it will build up over time from smoke n living be more then just dust .
where did you get the top part that is on the ceiling, that is way bigger than the original.