Our House: Family Room Canning Jar Chandelier
This canning jar chandelier was super simple to make, thanks to World Market!
Last year I wrote about the canning jar pendant lights I made for over the peninsula in the kitchen of the ‘Little Brick Cottage’ In case you missed that, here’s a quick pic of those:
For those 3 pendants I had to find the separate pieces and created my own lights from scratch using an adapter so they could be used on a track light. I also used the antique zinc lids and broke out the glass liners in them to wire through.
But for this chandy I just made for the family room at ‘Our House’, I found a light kit online at WorldMarket.com Either a 3 or 5 pendant lights are available. I chose 5 lights because it’s a main source of light over the game table area in the family room, and since I’d be using lower watt bulbs due to the transparency of the glass jars ‘globes’, I needed a greater number of light pendants to achieve enough light for the room.
Also, just to clarify, the kit from World Market doesn’t come with any globes or jars, I bought these from Ebay.
And unlike the ones in the cottage, I just didn’t have the heart to wreck the old zinc lids, so this time I painted some new lids:
See the ‘authentic’ antique lids in the upper right corner? I had them on the counter to refer to as I quickly painted the new silver colored lids with some grey and zinc tones of acrylic paints.
Also, notice in the lower left corner… that’s one of the 5 liners my husband graciously snipped out a hole just the right size to slip the World Market fixture into and screw tight with the provided nut.
Here’s a close up of the finished lights screwed together with the kit from World Market.
When the World Market light kit came, all the separate lights were the same length. I wanted the jars to each be a little different length, creating more of a bouquet look to the light, so here’s how I shortened the wires:
Then once the 5 separate pendant lights were the right length and everything inside the fixture re-wired, I wired it to the ceiling.
I have small 25 watt bulbs in each antique blue canning jar. That’s a total of 125 watts, perfect for this space.
Next time I think I’ll show you the game table and chairs I re-did from a dated 1980’s set. Here’s a peek:
Can you guess what this zoomed in tease of a peek is?
I’ll tell you next time!
Yay!! I’ve been featured:
I’m linking up at the folllowing parties:
http://romantichome.blogspot.com/2013/03/family-time-and-new-honey-pot-show-and.html
http://chiconashoestringdecorating.blogspot.com/2013/03/flaunt-it-friday-143.html
http://www.fivedaysfiveways.com/2013/03/feature-friday-free-for-all-57.html
http://tatertotsandjello.com/2013/03/weekend-wrap-up-party-and-wallpaper-for-windows-giveaway.html
http://www.funkyjunkinteriors.net/2013/03/sns-178-reclaimed-wood-projects.html
http://makingtheworldcuter.com/2013/03/making-the-world-cuter-monday-and-frizzy-lous-giveaway/
http://www.theshabbycreekcottage.com/2013/03/transformation-thursday-no-195.html
Posted on March 7, 2013, in Dining Room, Hardware, Kitchen, Light Fixtures, Little Brick Cottage, Our House, Re-purposing, Uncategorized and tagged canning jar, canning jar light, decorate with a little bit, DecorateWithaLittleBit, family room, little brick cottage, mason jar, re wire, World Market, WorldMarket.com, zinc. Bookmark the permalink. 21 Comments.
Oh this is awesome!!! Come link up to centerpiece Wed on my blog The Style Sisters http://thestylesisters.blogspot.com/2013/03/centerpiece-wednesday-and-wrap-up_12.html
Karin
Cute, cute, cute. How fun and so creative. Thanks for joining TTT. Hugs, Marty
That light is gorgeous! Congratulations on being featured over at Savvy Southern Style tonight!
Oh I don’t think I was featured at SSS but you were and congratulations to you and that great ’tile’ job you’re working on!
Such a beautiful idea. I love the way it turned out. Thanks so much for stopping by my blog.
Very nice! I’ve been wanting to make one of these, maybe now I’ll take the time to actually do it because of how great yours turned out!
oh thank you very much for that wonderful compliment!
This is such a lovely chandelier. Of course I love anything that uses mason jars.
Have a great week,
Bev
@ http://eclecticredbarn.blogspot.com
Beautiful – and that blue is just perfect to make a chandy!!!
Thanks for sharing
Visiting from Nifty Thrifty Things,
Big hugs,
Suzan
Love love love this! I wish I could make this… Maybe one day when we own a house! I would love if you would share this over at our blog hop http://www.ablossominglife.com/2013/03/frugal-crafty-home-blog-hop-14.html
What a great idea. We have a link party called Wednesdays Adorned From Above Blog Hop and would love to have you share this and any other posts with everyone. It runs from Tuesday night through midnight Sunday. Here is the link to the party.
http://www.adornedfromabove.com/2013/03/wednesdays-adorned-from-above-blog-hop.html
We are also having a giveaway this week for a $50.00 Target Gift Card, so head over to enter.
We hope to see you there.
Debi and Charly @ Adorned From Above
This is FABULOUS! I’d like to invite you to participate in my Pin Me Linky Party. It goes Fri-Tue. I allow up to 3 links each week! I’m a new FB follower!
Thank you for following! I’m on my way over to visit you too! Little Bit
I love it
This is awesome! My top shelf is full of this jars waiting for this project! Id love for to share this with us at our little linky party!
http://www.lifewelive4.com/2013/03/love-it-list-it-linky-party-2.html
:laura:
Those lights look great….anxious to see them in the whole room!
I love it!
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