DIY Nursery Wire Basket Light Fixture Tutorial | Baby Lifestyles

We’ve gotten a lot of comments about the repurposed wire basket light in the modern nursery featured in page 64 of the  February/ March Issue of Baby Lifestyles Magazine by the Painted Hive. While repurposed light shades aren’t exactly a new idea, how Kristine created this modern hanging pendant in her nursery, is worthy of a DIY demonstration.

Kristine opted to transform a standard batten or flush mount lighting fixture due to the ceiling height in her room. She started with a old zinc basket.

The second material needed was a batten fixture light from the hardware store. Kristine’s cost $7.

“You don’t actually need a complete fixture if you’re planning to use your own shade so if you can buy the canopy section alone (that’s the two-part brushed nickel bit as shown above) then go for it, though here down-under stuff like that can be elusive so for $7 I wasn’t too fussed purchasing the entire light.”

Using bolt cutters Kristine created an hour-hole in the base of the basket just large enough for the neck of my standard ceiling batten holder to fit through. “What’s an ‘hour-hole’ you ask? Oh, well that’s just when it takes you an hour to cut a hole you thought would take five minutes.” Lol!

Kristine then lowered the part of the brushed nickel canpoy from her DIY light fixture over the hour-hole in the basket and attached it by wrapping and tightly tying clear finishing line around a few of the basket spokes and the three screws in the canopy so they sat flush together. Next she attached her new light to the ceiling as per any normal batten fix light. To finish she decided to use a larger than usual decorative globe and removed the basket handles once she decided they looked just a little too ‘wrong’ up there on the ceiling.So, now instead of the original boring old make-do drum shade or the nice-enough-though-generic fixtures, she has this unique industrial style ceiling light:

Thanks for sharing the tutorial with us Kristine!