Post #507497 by TabooDan on Wed, Jan 27, 2010 6:56 PM

Okay, Nothing too huge here, just a quick lamp I kind of put together.

Here is a shot of this side of the room with the fireplace:

Looking straight up at the ceiling once I added the matting and removed the old fixture:

Because I was adding sea grass matting to the ceiling, I added a extension ring to the box so it would securely and safely hang a light fixture flush underneath the matting.

Note In some of these pictures, and others, you can see the white ceiling in behind. Well, once I get said and done, you will not see any of the white come through. If I was to do it over, I would have painted the ceiling like I do with the walls behind the bamboo so that that it hid the ceiling better. Sometimes you just dont want to do these things but wish you did later!

When I started off in the room, it just had a standard socket in the ceiling. When I was working I added this double bulb fixture just for a little extra light:

This is a shot once the ceiling was finished with the wood beams.

I had this cool old Amber glass shade that I thought would give a great glow in the Lounge. Here it is:

It's got that neat metal piece in the center with all the holes drilled in to it which gives a cool lighting effect and helps cut down on the bulb glare.
The only problem with this shade was because it was so old, it had the 4" opening at the mouth of the glass. The standard now is 3.25". You wouldn't think it was going to be hard to find a larger fitting for it but because I was looking for just a glass holder with no elaborate fixture, it became quite the hunt.

I soon realized that a few other people out there must be having the same problem because the ones I saw on Ebay were being bid on and they were selling from $14-19 each (in US funds plus shipping of course!). I think that's a bit much for one of these guys!!

After several calls and a few visits to some electrical suppliers, I found one and ended up paying only $6 for it which was right in my budget!!

They only had white ones so I painted it black. Pretty plain but here it is:

Once installed on the ceiling:

I had an old rattan drop pendant shade that I had purchased quite a few years ago wanting to use it in my lounge. I figured if I flipped it over and put this over top of the amber glass that it would look pretty cool. Like you would see on a semi-flushmount sort of fixture.

Here's the old shade:

I figured out the drop I would need between the glass and the shade and made the appropriate threaded rod size. A coupling, rod, nuts and a light bulb and that was about it.

Here's the glass mounted without the rattan shade:

And here it is with the rattan shade:

It came together pretty good as the shade hides most of the glass and you don't really see the color until it's on.

Here it is with the rest of the lights out and no flash:

You can see some of the effect of the shade and the metal where you see the straight lines of light. This continues all around the lamp and goes all over the ceiling. Hard to see in photos but it looks really cool.

One last shot with a few things on the mantel that were temporarily put out as they were being packed away. Can't decorate the Lounge just yet! Still lot's of work to do!!

Mahalo, TabooDan