Art, furniture, and decor define much of the style of our home, but there's one decorating challenge that haunts renters even when the furniture and decor are perfectly on point: dated or cheap-looking overhead lights. During grad school in Seattle, I lived in a tiny studio apartment in an old brick building. It had high
If you have a pendant you need to update, you can do a DIY Boho light shade swap using a few affordable items from the home decor store!
Art, furniture, and decor define much of the style of our home, but there's one decorating challenge that haunts renters even when the furniture and decor are perfectly on point: dated or cheap-looking overhead lights. During grad school in Seattle, I lived in a tiny studio apartment in an old brick building. It had high
Art, furniture, and decor define much of the style of our home, but there's one decorating challenge that haunts renters even when the furniture and decor are perfectly on point: dated or cheap-looking overhead lights. During grad school in Seattle, I lived in a tiny studio apartment in an old brick building. It had high
How to hang pendant lights on a budget using IKEA light shades and LED battery powered lights. No rewiring needed with this budget lighting home hack
Don’t live in the dark! Incorporate these five smart lighting solutions to create a bright and airy space no matter how many windows your rental has.
Do you have ugly or dated light fixtures in your rental? You CAN change them for a serious style upgrade but there's a few things you should know before you do!
Here are eight ways to cover ugly light fixtures without taking them down. Choose the one that suits you best and give your room a facelift today!
Some lighting fixtures NEED updating. Boob lights - er, flush mount ceiling lights TOP the list. Use these DIY ideas for your flush mount lighting fixtures.
Hey there! So I'm starting to recover from the craziness of last week's Share the Joy project, just in time to figure out what to make for Thanksgiving (I should probably buy a turkey soon). If you missed it, I organized a group of Central Florida DIY bloggers to redo the office space at a local foster home. Click here to see the before and afters. Since our budget was limited, we just didn't have the cash to replace all 3 light fixtures in the office. That's when the $6 DIY light fixture was born. Here's what the existing fixture looked like. When Christine and I were shopping at World Market for this project, she suggested buying a large drum shade to cover one of the fixtures. Great idea except we seriously didn't even have enough money left to afford one gorgeous shade from World Market. We left without one and I decided to hit up Goodwill that night in search of a DIY fix. Here's what I found. A wonderfully ugly $6 brown (I think it was painted at some point in its life) oval drum shade. Time to get crafty. To recover the shade: Supplies: Drum lamp shade Hot glue Fabric (I used about 1/2 yard of Premier Prints Ozbourne Village Blue/Natural Fabric given to me by OnlineFabricStore.net when I attended Haven this year. The amount of fabric will depend on the size of your shade) Step 1 Cut your fabric about 2" bigger than the height of your lampshade, and long enough to wrap around your shade and overlap a little. (Might want to iron your fabric too if it's wrinkled) Step 2 Line up the edge of your fabric with the seam on the lamp shade and hot glue along the seam in place. Step 3 Stretch the fabric around the edges of the shade and hot glue. Keep going stretching your fabric, making sure there are no wrinkles and gluing the edges. I did not put any glue in the middle of the fabric, just on the edges as I wrapped it around the shade. Step 4 Once you get back to your glued seam, trim off the excess fabric (if you have any). Leave about 2-3 inches of overlap. Fold your fabric under and glue in place. Since I stretched the edges of the fabric so much on my way around the shade, my seam kind of ended up in a curved shape. And that's it. You may have some extra fabric to trim around the shade and a few spots to touch up with glue. Once we got the shade to the children's home, my husband drilled a small hole in the center of the existing fixture cover (the dome-shaped metal thing that covers the wires). Then, we just put a screw and nut through the shade's metal bracket and screwed into place. And, ta da, you're done. Total project time was about 45 minutes to cover the shade and install. So if your budget just doesn't allow for completely new fixtures, hit up Goodwill and look for a shade. A simple $6 camouflage job might be all you need. Thanks to Katie from Sew Woodsy for some of the photos.
Here are eight ways to cover ugly light fixtures without taking them down. Choose the one that suits you best and give your room a facelift today!
Some lighting fixtures NEED updating. Boob lights - er, flush mount ceiling lights TOP the list. Use these DIY ideas for your flush mount lighting fixtures.
Take your kitchen light fixture from fugly to farmhouse with this easy chandelier makeover DIY!! You’re going to LOVE how you can easily update your room with these DIY cage lights and a little black paint! Seriously can’t get over how amazing these DIY kitchen light fixtures turned out!
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Have you ever wanted to makeover a bathroom vanity light? We had a dated light in our bathroom that needed an update. This is my DIY and you could easily do this in a rental home.
Looking for some ceiling light covers for ugly builder-grade flush mount lighting? Here's the BEST easy, affordable & gorgeous DIY option around!
Looking for some ceiling light covers for ugly builder-grade flush mount lighting? Here's the BEST easy, affordable & gorgeous DIY option around!
Plug in light fixtures are the perfect way to brighten and decorate any space, but especially rentals where hardwiring isn't an option!
Boob light makeover using earth magnets and a barrel shade updating the home office to a more modern clean finiish.
Looking for a gorgeous but simple lighting update? This is it! 5-minute, NO TOOLS needed - just a simple DIY change of ceiling light shades!
Replace your builder-grade boob lights with beautiful updated light fixtures! There are options for every style and budget.
These ceiling light covers are totally DIYable and super smart. Six clever ways to hide ugly lights the DIY way.
Do you need to add an overhead light to your room? Try adding a swag light! This simple tutorial will show you how to add one to almost any room, and take your room from dingy to delightful in a snap. Great photos, tips, and tricks to make your space shine- literally!