How To Make A Pendant Light Out Of A Basket

Read how to fashion a woven pendant light yourself for way less than you d spend buying it new.

How to make a pendant light out of a basket.

We used this pendant and slid the basket over the top of the rim so that they fit well and won t slip down. As you cross over the vertical wires put a bead of hot glue on the wire. Seeing as your basket will be uniquely constructed this might require drilling or it might just require snipping with sharp shears. Remember this post from a while back when i talked about my love for woven baskets and how i had seen a basket at target and knew it would make for a perfect pendant light.

Once you have the wiring for the light complete you ll use cutting pliers to create a hole in the bottom of the basket that s just wide enough to slip over the light bulb socket but a hair smaller in diameter than your shade ring. While we were there we saw this awesomesauce basket pendant that was selling for 322 originally 460. Make a hole in the bottom of your basket big enough to fit the end of the pendant. A shade ring looks like this.

Wrap the jute around and bunch it together as you wrap. If you decide on a plug in application rather than a hardwire application this will allow proper width for a plug to fit through the hole then plug into an outlet. Look for a rim like that on the one linked when you are looking for your pendants. The first step was heading over to a local lighting outlet the decorating outlet to check out any existing pendant lights that they were selling cheaply that way we could convert one into a pendant for our big basket shade.

May 3 2017 at 10 26 am if you have a broken fruit or vegetable basket in your kitchen don t throw it away as it can be re purposed and turned into this gorgeous and modern looking pendant light for any of your home area. Step 2 strip part of wire coating. Step 4 unscrew the retaining ring from the socket and put the socket into the hole you just created and then screw the retaining ring back on. Apply a small bead of hot glue to the end of the jute.

Do what needs to be done to make a. Press it to the inside edge of the horizontal wire you re wrapping. Let me also say this project is so easy anyone can make this. I was able to just use some scissors and cut the middle section off of each of these strips that overlapped each other.

Essentially you ll be sliding the baskets up onto the pendants above the bulb and you don t want the basket to slip down onto the bulb. Use a drill and paddle bit to make a 1 1 2 hole to the bottom of the basket. Make a hole in the base.