Do you have a collection of jars with hopes that you'll find something cool to do with them some day? Do you desperately need a light fixture for your dining room/kitchen/porch? If you answered yes to both of these questions, do we have the DIY for you!
Kara of Kara Pasley Designs and Kara's Fixed Up Fixer Upper made this great chandelier for her home and decided to share a very extensive tutorial so we can all do it ourselves as well. Still, for those of you nervous about wires, Kara also sells the chandelier via her website, Kara Pasley Designs.
Image credit: Kara Pasley; found via ReadyMade
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wow this looks great on, I wonder how it looks off.
I guess this is cute some places ... here in the South, Mason jars have a certain stigma and I just don't think I could bring myself to hang a lot of them on the front porch.
This looks ugly--clunky and junky.
It might be cute, on a porch of a certain vintage, to attach the small size Mason jars to a string of lights. They'd look nice hanging along the railing and give off a nice glow. Might work for a casual garden party/bbq/picnic-themed summer party.
I don't like this.
I saw a cuter example here a few years ago and loved it. I'm not loving this example: too many jars, and they don't seem to fit this room.
It does seem a little too bulky for my taste.
http://www.homedit.com/10-recycling-light-designs/
The seventh example down labeled the "Cluster Chandelier" is much more successful-- whimsy, fresh, and much softer.
I like it. I was thinking you could paint the inside of the jars with a thin layer of color to warm the light and hide the bulbs when it's turned off.
Ugly and impractical. How would you clean this thing?
I love it. It has that industrial look, which I want to use in my dining room.
WTF.
I really like this. Grizzly Bear used them as part of their set design at a gig just recently (they had them strung up in lots of rows, and it looked wonderful) and wanted to do it over our dining table... perfect timing!
But I must say.... I like the idea, not the execution. Am not a fan of the cluster at all.
In earthquake country, it could be a bit...scattered.
I love Grizzly Bear - wish I could have seen that.
I like this. I might look a bit better with less or smaller jars.
This is a joke, right???? Absolutely awful.
xtheowlsgo, the tape cassettes lamp on homedit.com would be perfect for a recording studio. However, this Mason jar look, I don't like. Like that atrocious Pottery Barn wine bottle "chandelier", the end result doesn't transcend the materials used - although I could see it working in a restaurant or bar.
dianalily, thanks for the link to the wine bottle chandelier. Hee! It gave me a flashback to 1960, when "stained glass windows" were made out of the bottoms of wine bottles. Fortunately they appeared only in steak-house restaurants. I hope.
I love it and have the perfect kitchen for it! I can't wait to make it.