Enhance a kitchen or bar with a wine glass chandelier.
If you've always wanted an elegant glass chandelier, now is your chance. Wine glass chandeliers provide a chic, modern way to repurpose chipped or mismatched wine glasses. You can also cheaply replace a dated or simply ugly chandelier with this technique. The wine glasses look as if they're tumbling down from your ceiling, but without the messy and dangerous end result. Light refracts through the glasses, optimizing the light from a single pendant lightbulb and illuminating your dining table beautifully.
Instructions
1. Unscrew the finial from the shade on your pendant light, removing the shade and shade harp from the light. You should now have a bare lightbulb hanging from your ceiling. Work with the light turned off.
2. Drill a 1/8 inch diameter hole right next to the base of the light on the ceiling. If the light has a ceiling medallion, remove it to see where the wires are. Replace the medallion and drill through it carefully, aiming away from the wires.
3. Screw a ceiling screw hook into the hole. The hook should have a 20 pound test, or be able to hold up to 20 pounds without trouble. Some hooks have small metal wings that pop out when you push them through a hole; these hold very strongly.
4. Cut a 2.5-foot length of cable with cable cutters. Slide a cable crimp onto one end of the cable, wrap the end of the cable around the base of a wine glass stem and slide the end of the cable back through the . Squeeze the crimp with a pair of pliers to secure it.
5. Attach a second wine glass to the other end of the cable. Cut another cable and repeat, mounting up to 14 wine glasses this way.
6. Slip the center of each of the cables onto the ceiling hook. Gently arrange the wine glasses, either in a random pattern or in a descending spiral. Tangle them gently together so they remain in place.
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