Quick and Painless Pendant Light Update

Our house came with the standard builder grade pendant lights (see picture below) and while they work there were boringly blah. I am obsessed with the clear, clean line shades with Edison bulbs but *yikes* the price tags seem a little silly! Especially for such a simple item. On further inspection I decided my pendants were actually not bad except for the shades so I set out to decide how to update them!

Origional, Builder Grade Pendant lights

Materials

• Updated shades or jars/flower vase
• *  If using a jar or vase you will need a diamond tip hole saw to cut a hole in the bottom

• Spray paint to match your pendant
• Edison Bulbs
• Paper grocery bag
• Painters Tape

Steps

• Decide what shade covers you want to use. I had originally intended to buy glass cheap jars or flower vases and use a diamond tipped hole saw (the round attachments for the drill) but I found something that was exactly what I wanted at West Elm for almost as cheap as any vase I could buy, so scooped up three of those!

West Elm Lens Glass Shade

• Remove the existing shades and set aside the washer used to hold it in place. Then use painters tape to cover the metal bells

• Slit your paper bag up the side so you can use it as a spray shield to keep the spraypaint from getting on everything, then carefully spray the white ceramic light plugs

• Take the rings outside and spray paint those to match everything else

• After everything is dry reassemble everything using the new shades and install your Edison Bulbs