Fixing a Broken Capiz Light

I have been watching this light at World Market forever, well not forever but a few years now.  Waiting for a sale or for it to go down in price.  Normally it does not work out and the item is either discontinued or snatched up by someone else.  Not this time.

The hubby and I were at World Market and I noticed the large pendant light had a price tag on it for $69.99.  Knowing that the original price on it $149.99, I was cautiously, but with rabid urgency trying to find one in a box....and couldn't.  Finding an employee I was told that they only had the display in stock but they could order one, so I took a "rain check" and got it ordered.  I must have asked the guy FIVE times if I would be honored the displayed price, worried that they would try to tell me it wouldn't be honored, which he probably thought I was crazy but got it ordered.

I got a call a week later that it was in, and rushed up there, to find that the one they ordered was a different one. BAHHHHH!  After speaking with a manger she said I could take the display.  I again confirmed with her THREE times that I would get the price on the tag attached.  I'm sure she thought I was crazy because my husband kept asking me why I was so persistent about THAT light.  If you know me I'm usually really shy when it comes to standing my ground.  She took it down, brought us up to the register and after coupons and gift cards, we paid $13.00 for it!!! Cha-ching!

Since it was a display there was no box, and I never was more afraid of breaking something in my entire life.

We brought our new "baby" home and got it hooked up with this hardwire kit. 

Can you see the problem that we had with this?  Since it was a display, at one point or another one of the capiz petals broke, leaving the metal frame empty.

 But with a little elbow grease....I mean some parchment paper, a hot glue gun and some scissors you cannot even tell.

I have seen faux capiz lighting made with either plastic milk cartons or parchment paper, so I figured I'd give it a shot to fill in the broken piece.  I cut a piece of parchment paper the size of the metal frame and hot glued it on the side of the frame to the parchment paper.

It blends so well it took the hubby a while to figure out which one was the "broken" one.

 

Although I really loved how things were taking shape, it needed a little more.

So I bought this chandelier cord cover from Etsy and finally have my "ah-hah" feeling!

In Emily fashion I wanted to put it up right away, the hubby not so much.  So while he was sitting comfortably on the couch relaxing after a long day, I hopped up on the chair, and made an attempt to put it on.  Easy installation because it just Velcro's together over the cord.  The hubby was not a fan of his pregnant wife being on a chair, so he jumped in and took care of it.  He's great!

I am so proud of myself for the amount of patience it took for me to wait as long as I did to get this baby!

 

Every time I walk by I can't help but smile :)

DIY Distressed Sconces

To go with our distressed, industrial-ish theme we are working on in our basement we decided to keep the party going with some sconces.  We did the same thing as here and here and really think this finishes that area.

We found the "candle holders" aka drinking glasses from Target for about $2.00/per and hot glued them to the wood platform that was attached to the galvanized pipe.

The candles, I got from Target and are battery operated  because I really do not want to burn down my house.  They are really nice and have a timer so we have one less thing to worry about!

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One slight problem we ran into was when we hot glued them to the platform, we obviously had issues with being able to get whatever we put in it, out.  So to fix that problem, I added some character to it by adding some acorns to the bottom.  **We will eventually end up gouging out a hole in the platform for the glasses to sit in since the hot glue makes it difficult to get the candle/anything we put in them out.

Tying up any loose ends??

Light and Bright

The door leading down to our basement and the door right next to it leads out to the garage.  I cannot even begin to count how many times people have opened the basement door all like, "okay I'm leaving, see you later", until they realize they would be going down to our basement.

I'm guilty of doing that a couple times myself. The entire time the hubs and I were sprucing up our basement and stairway leading down to our basement I knew that I wanted a different door for that reason and I feel like it would open up our kitchen area.  We did the same thing with our old house and loved how it turned out, so we figured why not?

 When we were thinking of a paint color I knew just what I wanted.  I wanted to bring a little bit of the basement up to the kitchen so we decided to use the same color that we painted the basement ceiling.  After some hesitation from the hubs, I took care of it like I do most of our painting projects....while he was at work and it turned out great!

We bought a pre-primed, pre-hung door (this one, but primed) from Menards and brought it back home to get it painted and installed.    It was relatively easy to put up, the hubs managed to get it done by himself without any causalities.  We would totally recommend going with a pre-hung door, especially if you plan on switching out the trim or repainting only because then your almost guaranteed for a perfect fit.  That was our mistake with our previous house was not purchasing a pre-hung, and we noticed that as the house expanded the door would not stay closed.

**FYI we had to special order this door and it took about 10-14 days to have it delivered to the store**

This is what the door looks like before I got my hands on it...The panes of glass have plastic on them and the entire door is primed, which made it easy for this project to be done without a lot of hassle and cutting in!

I got the door finished, two coats on each side, and once it was installed the hubs installed the door knob.  We just got a standard brushed nickel knob.  We are slowly but surely changing all of them out too!

From there we were ready to rock and take off the paint coated plastic.  We recommend using a sharp knife or blade and to go around the edges of each pain.  That will prevent the paint on the plastic from chipping EVERYWHERE and the sheets come off almost in one piece.

Needless to say we love how it turned out and it opens up the kitchen way more than we thought!  Now all we have to do is replace the other doors and paint 1,000 miles worth of trim...

Light Up Our Life

In our mission to make this house our home, we are updating some of the lighting around and are loving it so far!

After eyeing up this light at Menards and himming and hawing over it for months, with gift cards and rebates in hand we pulled the trigger and brought this baby home!

 

Installation was easy,  besides the fact that I kept imagining the hubs falling off the ladder.  I just hid in the living room until he was done.  We love it. Enough said.

I have also been OBSESSING about owning a capiz chandelier for the longest time and for once my patience has paid off.  After months and months and months and months of creeping on World Markets website and in store, I found this baby for 50% off and may I add that it was the last one...



We also had to buy this since without it our room would be a little dark:

At first I wasn't completely diggin' it in our bedroom, but looking back I think it was because I was WAY over tired and not thinking straight, but after a nap things were looking better!

 

 

We also changed up the lighting in both of our bathrooms.  Needless to say this light wasn't our style and had to go.

 

 So we changed it out:

The half bath's update included going from this light:

 To this light:

 

 If it looks familiar (maybe?) we ended up going with the same one that we had used in our half bath at our first house.

We still have a few more rooms to find lighting for...The hunt is OFFICIALLY on.