Wanna Be

Saw this post and loved this light and filed it away into the "Creative To Do" section of my brain. Went shopping for some cheapo hardware at the Habitat for Humanity Restore for this project, and stumbled across 2 of these beauties(?) and thought they were reminiscentof the Anthropology lamp.

Being priced at $3 a piece I thought I would try to recreate the look and even if I failed, it wouldn't be a huge loss. We had a can light above our kitchen sink and thought this would be the easiest and most suitable place for this type of light.

I picked up one of these can to pendant light converter kits (these are SO cool!  Just screw it into the can light like a regular light bulb!) at my trusty neighborhood Lowe's store and a can of this spray paint in hammered bronze and started the makeover.

 I removed the "cage" part from the original lamp and covered all the parts of the converter kit except the cord.  The bronze finish was perfect on the converter kit, but the cord was black and I really wanted it to match.

Reassembled everything and added a nightlight bulb and TA DA!  $30 Wanna be Anthropology Lamp!  I'm pretty happy with the results and the fact that I saved myself $118!

fingers crossed the cord straightens out after hanging for a while

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