Industrial Pendant light

I want to re-wire this lamp that I found really cheap at the markets and hang it on a chain and pulley. I have a pulley, all I need is some chain...and some electrical skills of some kind!

 

Jan 2014

Not having much luck finding pendant lighting kits in NZ. They seem to be available in other countries but our regulations are too strict?

Palette coffee table project

Pallet before...

This is my latest project. To turn this old $2 pallet into a useful & beautiful coffee table.

I cut the pallet into two halves first. After sanding, I applied a charcoal water based tint. 

The tint is actually quite blue, but comes across on the wood as grey when dry.

I bonded the two sections together with no-more-nails, then weighed it down overnight to make it stick.

I used these little handy things at about 50cents each to strengthen the hold between the two sections of the pallet, after using no-more-nails for an initial bond.

I had been hunting for castor wheels at local hardware stores but they ranged anything from $17-$50 each (!!) of varying standards and mostly plastic. 

So I headed to the markets and found four of these for a total cost of $15 and they are perfect size NZ made rubber wheels with metal base. In the hardware stores these ones would have cost me at least $120.

I measured up where they were to go and drilled some holes...

And the wheels are on now at last!

All done!!

Lamp Revamp

This ordinary old cheap lamp just needed a makeover. I gave it a new lease of life with some sandpaper, matt black water based paint and a little help my my friends at IKEA

http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/10192485/

               

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