Let there *B light

I like a challenge,

And earlier this year, I was challenged by not wanting to pay $500 for one of those industrial edison lights, but still wanting one soooooo badly.

So I went to work on one of the lights that was left by the previous owner of the home, armed with a $15.00 basket I purchased at a second hand store.

This is the before picture of the light...

(I do have to divulge that my family is full of electricians, so I have a little bit of a base knowledge of lighting) PS before you ever do ANYTHING with lights, make sure you turn off the breaker!!!!

This is the basket I purchased from a local shop...

Drill 2 holes in it for the 3 lights and voila!

I unwired the lights from the existing chandelier and pulled the wire through the newly drilled holes (unwiring was a bit difficult, but not impossible to do. at that point the light it out of the ceiling so you can't hurt it!)

This next part you may need some help with if you haven't done electrical wiring before, but basically, you need to restrip the ends of the wire so they are exposed, and then wrap them, and the ground copper wire, back onto the light fixture box. When I first took the light down I labeled the wires so I knew which one went back to which light box wire.

Here comes the fun part...after you rewire and hang it all back up, turning on the breaker and praying to god that it lights!!! 

Final product!!! What I shockingly crafty B* I've become... :-) Thanks mom & dad.  PS the pot rack in the back was also installed in the process - from IKEA! Super cheap, space saving, and looks great. Not cheaply made at all. Heres another pic...

Hap B* Crafting all!!! 

<3 B*