Post #674844 by ErkNoLikeFire on Fri, Apr 19, 2013 8:15 AM

I've been wanting to add some hanging lamps to the lounge for a while. I found some bamboo wind chimes at a thrift store.

I cut the chime parts off (I'm planning on building new chimes out of the pieces later). Then I untied the hanging cord, pulled the bottom off the chime (which was just a small circle of thatch and attached the light to the cross section of the tube that that small piece of thatch was attached to. Then I retied the hanging cord to the bottom of the tube, which is now in fact the top.

I rolled up a couple sheets of paper and taped them to the insides of the tube part.

I found these lights on Amazon for around $3 bucks each. They put out almost no heat and each come with a programmable remote with various colour options.

Here it is with some of those options

I don't know yet what I'm going to use for a permanent shade inside the lamp yet, but at some point I'll replaced the hanging cord with a bit of chain.Cost for making both lamps will be around $12, until I figure out the shade part, and maybe shellac the tube section later.