Globe Lights

I mentioned that my hubby can create anything I dream up and this is proof!

This is a globe that broke apart but I could not bear to toss it out. The globe halves have a simple shop light inside of them. I kept the shop light as is {I didn’t take off the metal dome} so the heat of the lights will go to the shop light aluminum before the cardboard globe. This way, they also have switches so you can turn one off or use this as the main way to control the light.

The wood piece came from an old barn that was being torn down. We found the barn teardown posted on Craig’s List and went for the vintage wood to make our pergola {which will be featured another month}. This piece was left over from that project.

Brant did a series of wiring things…he tacked the cords down to the wood to minimize visibility, he spliced them together so they could connect to a single plug-in and then used the rope and copper wiring to hide it all.

Globe: Free

Shop lights: $7 each

Wood: Free

Rope: $14

Copper wire: Free

Pulley: $10

Hardware and cord ties: free

The biggest challenge: To carve out the metal circular piece on the tops of the globes. It was a hidden surprise when I was making the holes for the shop light cords.

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Sara - This is adorable and so creative. Hope you can link this up at my trendy tuesday party!! http://www.sweetlittlegals.com/2012/06/trendy-tuesday-6.html

HouseTalkN - What a great idea! I have an old globe in the basement and a boys room calling for some fun lighting!
Happy New Year!
Kerry at HouseTalkN

Christina at I Gotta Create! - WHOA!! Those are F-A-B-U-L-0-U-S!! What an amazingly creative idea. And I love that they’re strung to that worn, old beam with the pulley. Wow.
Love It!

Rachael @ Mrs-Adventure - Fantastic Idea… I totally “pinned” it I hope you see tons of “re-pins”. What an awesome idea I’m smitten )

Julie@Inspired by You - I absolutely love how creative this is. Maybe I can come up with something similar to do with my pulley that has been sitting for over a year. Again, great job!!

Karah @ thespacebetweenblog - Brilliant!!!

Brook@BeingBrook - LOVE! Two of my favorite things-globes and old wood together. Such an awesome idea.

Marci - That is soo cool. I love it. I will be storing this idea away for when I get to decorate a teen room someday!

Amanda - Very cool, especially the rope and pulley part. I love it!

Miss Kitty - THAT is super amazing in itself and then I love the photography of it too! Thank you so much for sharing how to make a light like that…not that I could/would tackle something like that BUT if my life depended on it, thanks to your tutorial, I think I might be able to.

the brown shed - I love that globe light! So cute! I have been hanging on to an old globe, wanting to make a light out of it… Do you think you might post a tutorial? That would be great!

Christi

Catie - That is soo cool!! I love it! What an ingenious idea.

Oh, I posted a comment for the Sept. giveaway and it said it didn’t go through, so I reposted it and it showed up twice. One of the comments was all weird. You might want to delete it. Thanks!

~ Catie

shiori - That is just GENIUS!

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