Last year I saw this great tutorial for a huge candelabra made by Sandra over at Sawdust and Paper Scraps. I do love a good candelabra you know, and a huge life size one was just too good to pass up! I truly am SO glad there are some genius DIY-ers out there.
The tutorial on the website is all you need to know how to do it (linked above), but I thought I'd share how my own DIY adventure went.
Here is how mine looked by the end of today's tinkering, but I made more changes to it here.
It actually didn't take as long as I thought to get all the old lamps I needed, although I think I just got lucky. I went into the thrift store two or three times and found just what I needed.
I forgot to take a picture of the lamp for the base, but it looked groovy and brassy like this one:
And I forgot to take a picture of the lamp for the top (notice a trend here?) before I painted it and gutted it, but here it is slightly reconstructed.
You get the general idea.
I put everything together and here it is...almost completed.
It sure was fun cutting off the threaded rod to the right size (no, not really). But once it was I was so happy to put everything together. I didn't want mine quite as tall as Sandra's, so I got a smaller length of PVC pipe. Time to spray paint the rest black!
Wal-mart just happened to sell little LED candles in the EXACT size I needed. Whoo-hoo! I already had the larger candle that goes in the middle, so that was an added bonus. And I really CANNOT decide if I want to do the beads or not. It looks a little too modern to me. So I tried it with a touch of moss to see how I like it.
My 6 year old son asked me if he could use it as a night-light in his room. I love that kid. :)
Hmmm...the jury is still out. I just can't decide. But I do have a few months until Halloween, so if I decide to do the beads I can always add them closer to the big day.
Overall, a very fun project! I'm so excited to put it on display soon!
The tutorial on the website is all you need to know how to do it (linked above), but I thought I'd share how my own DIY adventure went.
Here is how mine looked by the end of today's tinkering, but I made more changes to it here.
It actually didn't take as long as I thought to get all the old lamps I needed, although I think I just got lucky. I went into the thrift store two or three times and found just what I needed.
I forgot to take a picture of the lamp for the base, but it looked groovy and brassy like this one:
And I forgot to take a picture of the lamp for the top (notice a trend here?) before I painted it and gutted it, but here it is slightly reconstructed.
I put everything together and here it is...almost completed.
It sure was fun cutting off the threaded rod to the right size (no, not really). But once it was I was so happy to put everything together. I didn't want mine quite as tall as Sandra's, so I got a smaller length of PVC pipe. Time to spray paint the rest black!
Wal-mart just happened to sell little LED candles in the EXACT size I needed. Whoo-hoo! I already had the larger candle that goes in the middle, so that was an added bonus. And I really CANNOT decide if I want to do the beads or not. It looks a little too modern to me. So I tried it with a touch of moss to see how I like it.
Hmmm...the jury is still out. I just can't decide. But I do have a few months until Halloween, so if I decide to do the beads I can always add them closer to the big day.
Overall, a very fun project! I'm so excited to put it on display soon!
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