Festival of Lights – Day 2

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home decor, improvement, lamp, light fixture, lighting, update

Kitchen –

This was the previous light fixture that we removed from above the breakfast table. It is obviously older than our house, someone must’ve loved it so much that they put it in their newly built house. However, we do not feel the same way, it’s just not our style. In fact, friends of ours have the same ugly lamp in their home and they feel the same way (as us) about it. Hubster and I think it would be funny to leave the twin lamp on their porch one night…

We reused the light fixture we removed from the dining room. I rotated the arms up to hide the lightbulbs from view and spray painted the metal oil-rubbed bronze. Once we decide the appropriate length, we’ll remove the extra chains and thread the excess wire into the ceiling.

What home projects are you currently working on?

XOXO,
Young Wifey

Festival of Lights – Day 1

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home decor, improvement, lamp, light fixture, lighting, update

No, it’s not Diwali or Hanukkah in July. Hubster and I just updated two lights in our home.

Dining Room –
This is the light we inherited with the purchase of our home. I don’t like the antique brass color, the fact that I can see the ugly lightbulbs, or the ugly cord visible in the chain…

Previous Light Fixture

Hubster purchased the new light at a yard sale for $10. The cord was missing from one side, and he thought he’d have to rewire the light. Luckily, the cord hidden inside the lamp and just needed to be fished through. It also did not come with a mounting piece and bolt, so he had to drill a larger hole in the existing one on the ceiling. I did have to spray paint the bolt from the lamp we removed from the kitchen.

New Light Fixture

XOXO,
Young Wifey

French Chic Lamp #2

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champagne, craft, ephemera, French, graphics, guest room, image transfer, label, lamp, lampshade

I absolutely love how my French Chic Lamp turned out! I wanted to create another lampshade for my guest room using the lamp that was in my nursery as a baby. When I was a little girl it got a new lamp shade, and another new lampshade in my teens and again in college. Therefore, it only makes sense that now in my grown up home, it gets a new shade again.

I wanted a more simplistic design for this shade, while sticking with the French theme. I also wanted to try my hand at creating printable graphic from a photo. I chose a Dom Pérignon label and successfully created a black and white printable. Yay, me! However I’m having difficulty saving it as a sharable file.

French Chic Lamp #2

I then used to same image transfer method that I did for my first lamp. I look forward to creating more printable graphics from pictures.

What do you think? 

French Chic Lamp

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craft, french chic, french ephemera, guest room, home decor, lamp, lampshade, shabby chic

I’ve been extremely busy and life has felt a little chaotic. I have many projects and recipes that I want to get to, but I haven’t been able to find the time. It seems every so often I need to remind myself to make the time for the things I enjoy, because even though I’m fitting more in, it feels less chaotic to me.

I found this beautiful crystal lamp at a yard sale in the fall and immediately envisioned a gorgeous french chic lamp for my guest room. My dad insisted that I needed to rewire the lamp before using it… so dad, please pretend I already did that step.

The mismatched lampshade might have been the right fit size-wise, but definitely not style-wise. Then I was on the hunt for a lampshade. Each store I went to had something similar to what I desired, but none were quite right. One store I thought I found the right shade, but it was too big. I felt like Goldilocks and temporarily gave up on my search, after all the guest room didn’t get used too often.

Last week,I was checking the clearance racks at Target and I decided to go down the lamp aisle. I had already checked this store before, but it was like destiny – the perfect lampshade for my lamp. Goldilocks found the one that was just right.

My first step was to sand down the rusted metal piece and spray it with metallic silver Rustoleum.

I hopped over to The Graphics Fairy and printed some French Ephemera that I planned to transfer to the white lampshade. As a child, did you ever trace a picture using the window sill? Easiest way to transfer an image right? I positioned my print and taped it to the inside of the shade and turned on the light. Using a black fine-point Sharpie pen. I traced the image. Since the lamp shade was fabric, it needs to be a bleed-free. I grabbed the wrong one to start, can you guess where?

After a little TLC and craftiness, my lamp looks worlds better. It’s such a simple and quick project. Maybe you’ve seen the fairy light I’ve already made for my guest room.

What crafts or projects do you have planned for this weekend? 

Fairy Lights for Guest Room

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bedroom, birdcage, birdhouse, fairy lights, guest room, home decor, lamp, lights

In the process of setting up a guest room, I’ve shown you some of the birdcages I have in the room. I found this adorable birdcage light on Pinterest and remembered I had seen one a few years ago and wanted to recreate my own. I used 3 strands of 100 white lights with white cords and filled my shabby chic bird house to light up my guest room.

What do you think?