Make Chicken Wire Lampshade

Homemade wire cloche do you agree that anything looks better under a cloche.

Make chicken wire lampshade. Chicken wire lampshade 3 ways to make a vintage lamp 1. Pulley wall lamp 3. Chicken wire pendant light. It s perfect for revamping a family room living room or bedroom.

I use chicken wire all the time. Next you will want to wrap chicken wire around the lamp shade circle frame. I hope that makes sense. It s so easy to use.

And then you will hot glue chicken wire to the lamp shade circle frame. For example wrap around twice or three time but not 1 1 2 or 2 1 2 times. Because that is the easiest way to measure how much chicken wire you should cut. Using needle nose pliers my husband will say they are actually duckbill pliers i twisted the wire ends around the frame on the first side.

Things to make with chicken wire. It is equally good for large projects like lamp shades and small ones like jewelry organizers. As far as a tutorial goes to explain the process you just have to wrap the wires around the frame and use pliers to make sure they are secure with no loose ends to cut you. You can use chicken wire to upcycle old furniture mirrors windows and picture frames.

And absolutely love the rustic look it has. Chicken wire lamp shade look at this adorable chicken wire lamp shade. For balance purposes wrap the chicken wire around an even amount of times because the weight of the wire will cause the shade to hang on the lamp unevenly if the chicken wire is wrapped less than an even amount of times. I laid the frame on it s side on top of the chicken wire to use as a guide and clipped around it using wire cutters.

It is easy to secure flowers or other accents to chicken wire so you can change your decorative accents each season. I love diy chicken wire projects. If any of you have worked with chicken wire it pokes scratches and cuts you so the smaller the pieces the easier it is to work with. I painted the circular part of the lamp shade black so it matched the iron lamp.

Chicken wire can be very sharp. I repeated the process on the opposite side. So i decided to make a farmhouse lampshade out of chicken wire.