Metal Candle Holder Makeovers
I bought these a week ago from a thrift store. I really liked the shape, but the paint was chipping and the dark green color was not really my favorite. I probably should have spray painted them, but I didn’t have enough black spray paint home, so I painted them using a brush (I can be so impatient sometimes!).
The result is not as smooth as I would have hoped for, but it’s enough for now. I can always spray paint them if I ever feel like the paint is bothering me too much. 
And now that they’re already black, I won’t need as much spray paint!
Pendant Light Design
This is what I’ve been working on at school lately. It’s a prototype of a pendant light I designed. It’s made of solid birch, acrylic and painted aluminum. The lamp gives bright, direct light below and soft, indirect light above through the opaque plastic. Hope you like it!
Candle Light
It is almost the darkest time of finnish winter and without snow it almost feels like there’s no proper daylight at all… This makes it impossible to take good photographs, because daylight happens to be the best light to shoot in. That’s why I don’t have anything new to show you today…
So all I can do is light a few candles and drink lots of hot tea… because they are the only good things about this darkness.
Diy Bedside Lamps – Finished
Finally some progress! This has been a long project and it took more time and planning than I thought, but I can happily say that my lamps are finally finished! Yay!
If you want to see how these lamps were made,
see Part 1 here,
and Part 3 here.
And now to the final product:
I would say, it was worth the time and effort. Looks great!
Diy Bedside Lamps Part 3
Edit: See the finished lamps here.
Part three is the final step of making these industrial style bedside lamps. I’m going to show how I did the concrete bases for my lamps.
See some tips on using concrete from my previous post on Diy concrete candle holders.
Top left: I used Ikea Antonius basket insert as a mold. It had the perfect size and shape and I was able make two bases with the same mold. The basket insert only cost 2 euros, so I did’n worry that I couldn’t use it anymore after making the bases.Top right: I had to drill two holes to the bottoms of the basket insert so that I could cast two 8mm screws into the concrete. The screws will attach to the lamp. I did a few test drills before the final drilling to make sure I got it right. Bottom left: I used blu tack to hold the screws in place and make the mold tight so that the concrete wouldn’t leak through. Bottom right: Concrete cast in the mold.
When the bases were dry, I slid them out of the molds and glued a piece of felt to the bottom so that they won’t scratch our bedside tables.
Here they are, finished:
Then it was time to attach them to lamps…
I am an industrial design student from Finland with a passion for design, decor, and DIY. In this blog I will share my diy projects and more. Feel free to comment, I would love to hear your thoughts!
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