Morning! So, I really try to come up with fun creative titles for my posts...and sometimes they only make sense to me. Like today, we're making a drum shade. So I think, drum=beat=Black Eyed Peas=Let the Beat Drop=dance party in the kitchen. Try living in my brain for a little while...it might be a fun place to be. :) Sometimes you need to attempt a project twice. Like this one. I attempted to make my first drum shade about 3 months ago and it was an epic fail. The whole thing turned out horrible and I put it in the closet for another 3 months until I could give it another go. I wish I had a picture for you guys. You'd totally put it on Pinfails.com or whatever that website is. Basically, we have this horrible chandelier in our non-existent dining room. It's in the center of the room, however the room is not big enough for a "centered" dining table. So it just looks stupid, and you hit your head on it and then you scream "AHH KELLY CLARKSON" and your future husband looks at you like, "what the heck is she smoking?...cause I want some". Okay. Back to the task at hand. I followed this tutorial for making the shade. It's a good one. I have a few additions that may help you along the way too. :) (You know...so you don't have to make this twice like I did) 1) Making the drum shade with plexi and hoops is easy. Except you'll find the hoops have these big ugly cubes on the outside and I didn't like those. So, I took off the outer ring, and used some gorilla glue to keep the inner in place. This is what it looked like: The key part is seriously measuring your fabric right. If you have a solid, you won't need to do it in two parts, however, since we're chevron-obsessed in this family, I had to cut the material in two parts. I layed it down and wrapped the fabric around, and secured with box tape. Then I did the same thing on the other side so that it would be covered from all angles. I temporarily secured the whole thing with box tape before even starting to hot-glue. (oh yeah baby...we're breaking out the hot glue. Cause here at Absolutely Arkansas we treat it like Franks Hot Sauce...we put that stuff on everything. ;) Since I was going to have a seam, I un-taped one side, and gave it a quick seam, then glued it back on. I went around the shade with my fabric, gluing slowly along the way. In the end, I was obsessed with the result. For my finishing touch, I took my exacto, and carefully trimmed any excess fabric from the inside. Then it was Mr. Rose to the rescue! He hung it up for me, and now it hangs happily over our old, God-awful chandie. :) YAAAY! I absolutely love her. Is it perfect? Absolutely not. But nothing In this house is, & that's why I love it so much. :) And just because everyone loves a good before & after: As we like to say in the Emperors New Groove...BOOM BABY! Oh! For a quick price breakdown: Fabric- 9 bucks Plexi- 6 Bucks Hoops- 3 each Tape/Glue/everything else- Owned Bringing my total just a bit over 20.00 with tax. For a GIANT 23" drum shade...i'll take it! I hope you'll come back the rest of the week, and see what we've been up to. :) Until Next Time, Kylie Skip to my Lou/Keeping It Simple Crafts/DIY Showoff/ Home Stories A to Z / Uncommon Designs /Sugar and Dots / The Winthrop Chronicles The Girl Creative / House of Hepworths / The Shabby Creek Cottage Liz Marie Blog / Tater Tots & Jello / Shabby Nest / Whipper Berry /Funky Junk Interiors / Serenity Now /Classy Clutter / Someday Crafts Reasons to Skip the Housework / Six Sisters Stuff / Be Different Act Normal/ Life with the Crust cut off/ The Turquoise Home / Ginger Snap Crafts/ Thrifty Decor Chick Have Absolutely Arkansas delivered to your inbox for FREE! You'll never miss a post! Enter Email Here:
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Thank you for all of your kind comments on my dark ceiling! Yesterday I gave you a sneak peek of my new drum shade, and today I'll show you how I did it. About 7-8 years ago I purchased this vintage chandelier at a thrift store. It was a little more pricey than I would normally pay, but all of the crystals were there and I knew this wasn't something I would come across often, so I snatched it up. In our old house it hung in our kitchen eating area, and when we moved to our current home I hung it in the office to add a bit of glam. I always felt like it was a little small for the space, but loved it too much to replace it. A few weeks ago, after seeing a few photos on Pinterest, inspiration struck! I didn't even try to find a pre-made drum shade that would fit my chandy. I still wanted to be able to see the fixture, but wanted to bulk it up a bit. I have a ton of pictures today, so I'll get on with it! Supplies: (2) 23" embroidery hoops-I only used the interior solid rim from each one 18 gauge wire gold tulle (2-3 yards) Not pictured: wooden skewers gold trim ribbon clothespins & hot glue gun (2 of my staple supplies for projects!) I tightly wrapped the ends of each wire on 4 somewhat even sections of the hoop...just eyeballed it. After looking at my chandelier, I determined that I wanted the height of the shade to be 10 inches, so while holding the top hoop at the right mark, I wired it together with the bottom hoop. I thought that the wire would be enough support, and it did hold really well from top to bottom, but the hoops shifted too easily from side to side. So, I clipped some wooden skewers to size and hot glued them in place near the wires. I wanted to make sure that the glue would hold the skewers in place well, so I left the wire on and sprayed the entire thing gold. Everything was holding up very nicely, so I clipped off the wires between the hoops, just leaving the skewers for support. I wired 4 more pieces to the top hoop, planning to use them to secure the shade to the light. And the frame was done! Then, I started working to cover it. I bought 5 yards of fabric not exactly sure how I was going to cover it, but here's what I came up with. The tulle comes already folded in half lengthwise, and I left it that way. Then, I folded about a 1/2" towards the inside of the top hoop, and wrapped the tulle lengthwise around the outside. That still left a lot of fabric width at the bottom, which I pulled up through the middle inside and clipped to the top rim. A little hard to explain, but basically I wrapped it so there were 4 thicknesses of the fabric around the shade, a double width on the outside wrapped with a double width on the inside. Clear as mud??? After trimming the excess yardage, I worked to pull from the top and tighten everything up. When it looked o.k., I clipped the top edge to hold everything in place. Next, on the inside top rim, I used hot glue along the edge. It soaked through all of the layers of tulle and when it cooled off all of the fabric was stuck in place and secure. After removing the clothes pins I went back and glued those sections as well. (What, you don't name your clothespins??? ;) Back in my teaching days I used wooden clothespins each year for the lunch count and helper charts, and just kept them all to use at home after the year was over. It's fun to look back at the names and remember the children. I taught 3rd grade and most of my students are probably out of college now!) After the glue dried I carefully trimmed the excess off of the top. This is the seam. The starting point is underneath and when I got to the end, I just folded it under and glued the top like the rest. I tried to place it right at the skewer so it wouldn't be as noticeable. It's not perfect, but that's o.k. I hung that part in the back. Rather than cutting a slit around the wire, I just left the fabric and pulled it a little tighter. You can't really see it anyway once the shade was hung. However, you COULD see the hot glue, so I used some gold ribbon trim to cover it. I went around the inside top and bottom edges and I think it helped to give a finished look. O.K.! The shade was done and the moment of truth had come...figuring out if I was going to be able to hang it. My plan was to just rig it with those 4 wires. It weighs next to nothing, so that wasn't an issue. Here's the top view. The wires really aren't visible from ground level unless you stand really far back and look really hard. I think it was beneficial to hang it this way, because I could adjust each wire as needed to get the shade to hang straight. (Which was probably the hardest part of the entire project!) And there you go! Here's the view from underneath. Nothing touches the shade, so we should be all nice and safe. I love it! The scale is just right for the room now and it feels updated although I can still see the pretty fixture and crystals underneath. It gives off a really pretty glow at night, too! Oh, and I almost forgot the best part. I used coupons for the hoops at Hobby Lobby, and the tulle and ribbon were on sale. So, the cost for this project was about $14! You can see my Pinterest board here where I pinned some photos that gave me the idea for this project, and you can click on the button on my sidebar if you would like to follow me on Pinterest. Linking up with: Savvy Southern Style The Shabby Nest Tatertots & Jello Classy Clutter Simply Klassic Home Home Stories A to Z
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