Comments on: DIY globe cluster lamps.

By: stuart

stuart — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 01:41:47 +0000

these are really cool, but living in san francisco I think one of these would break pretty easily in a moderate quake. But I guess Area San Francisco is willing to take that risk :)

By: anne

anne — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 07:21:52 +0000

Candice on Divine Design (HGTV) did one of these on her episodes. Didn’t seem too difficult…although she did have her electrician guy put it together…

By: Queen of DIY

Queen of DIY — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 11:59:37 +0000

What a wonderful idea! Thank you for sharing. I’ve been looking for good and affordable solutions to lighting a tent this summer for our outdoor wedding. This might be just what I was looking for.

Thank you!
~ Sarah

By: Amanda

Amanda — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 03:49:56 +0000

I was recently in Anthropologie in Denver and over near the PJ section, they had a beautiful one made out of blue-green and clear globes. It was amazing!

By: amanda

amanda — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 20:40:08 +0000

yes! I completely agree with you about the Pottery Barn version! Its a nice price, but my goodness! What an eyesore the brackets make it! Looks like a Tim Burton-ish Spider crawling around on the ceiling! [after I typed that, it sounds cooler than I intended it too!]

By: Charley (Canada)

Charley (Canada) — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 04:07:46 +0000

http://www.bocci.ca/#/14-custom/
These are a beautiful version with tiny halogen bulbs

By: Ellen

Ellen — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 23:50:56 +0000

Thank you for pulling together all these sources! I think you could create a fixture more along the lines of your dream one by combining these ideas and using black cords/cording, the CB2 bubble balls, and three lights sources, as in the Pelle version. You could leave the cords and cording mostly free, attaching them at the top, and vary the lengths such that they are level at the bottom of the fixture. That’s just one idea. I look forward to seeing the beautiful fixture you create!

By: vera

vera — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 16:15:52 +0000

lovely lamps! And such a cute dog you have!

By: Designers' Brew

Designers' Brew — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 01:50:01 +0000

The Pottery Barn one looks like a robot tarantula from hell! Love the rest, though; cluster pendants are one of my absolute favorite things. I wrote a whole post on them here:

http://designers-brew.blogspot.com/2009/02/bubblicious.html

By: So Lovely

So Lovely — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 22:23:39 +0000

Thank you for all this info and also a big thanks for introducing me to Instructables! I think that will going to be a new obsession for the bigger version of the small child who drove everyone nuts asking “whhhyyyyy” !

By: laura

laura — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 21:31:33 +0000

i saw another cool chandelier made from whirly candle holders ages ago on apartment therapy, less clustered but still nice, i am too dumb to figure out how to put a link in a comment but if you google “whirly meggethpixel” it is the first link

i love the John Giacomazzi clustered one, i think ill be giving that a try…someday

By: kristin

kristin — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 21:25:22 +0000

I love these too. Just bought that Droog chandelier for clients actually and it’s lovely in person. These DIY options are great because I could never afford the Droog myself.

By: Lori

Lori — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 21:02:51 +0000

Hmmm… All very interesting… The whirly candle holders, in my humble opinion (and I am open to other opinions on this), might look cool suspended from the ceiling by fishing line. Maybe 3 in a row, following the wall. They would appear to be floating. Or maybe it would look freakishly weird…:) Or maybe b/c I have kids anything with an open flame needs to be up high!! LOL

By: Kate F.

Kate F. — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 19:32:55 +0000

Word on the PB one needing to get rid of the scary ceiling brackets. It makes me think of a sea creature or a set from one of those fantastical-victorian sort of movies.

By: Charley (Canada)

Charley (Canada) — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:33:56 +0000

Hello Anna,
I just saved those instructions last week, remind me of Japanese fishing buoys. I was inspired to make a Random Light from your blog and this was the next project but I’ve already got too many dangling lights in our living room

http://www.sainthonorewallcoverings.com/wallcoverings/papiers-peint/pandore.php?pp=contdamask
http://www.sainthonorewallcoverings.com/wallcoverings/papiers-peint/contemporaine.php
http://www.sainthonorewallcoverings.com/wallcoverings/papiers-peint/pandore.php?pp=contparrots

I saw these wallpapers and thought of you.
Hope it’s ok to post the links.

By: Joni

Joni — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:21:37 +0000

I just bought this one, with matching pendants, for our kitchen/dining room remodel. I can’t wait to see it installed!

By: hollandv

hollandv — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:19:19 +0000

Dunno, these cluster bombs leave me a little cold. Every design incorporates some share of ugliness to carry it off (And Pottery Barn’s spider-suction-cupped-to-the-ceiling ugliness cannot be topped.)

They also will require tedious cleaning, lest the globes get dusty or filmy. To look their best, they must be scrupulously clean.

By: verhext

verhext — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:08:56 +0000

Kevin: i stand corrected. The difference between a teak candle holder and a soft wood like the one with the gold on it, in terms of flammability, is vast. Teak is incredibly dense. Would be hard to catch fire – but WOULD- eventually. That soft wood is a candle wick.

By: verhext

verhext — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:00:44 +0000

Haha, I don’t know. I almost burned down my house the other day with a pillar on a vintage plate, so don’t ask me!

I will tell him he’s crazy, though.

But most of the vintage ones I’ve seen have a metal lining?

By: Anna at D16

Anna at D16 — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:55:04 +0000

“Never, throughout history have there been wood candle holders.”

What?! Tell Kevin he’s crazy – what about all those Danish teak candleholders? I mean, I know they’re only 40 years old, but just Googling “antique wood candlesticks” turns up stuff WAY older than that!

I mean, I guess he’s right in theory, but…I dunno, my mother has been using old wooden spools as candlesticks forever, and she still hasn’t burned the house down.

What if I promise to wrap the bottom of the candle in aluminum foil? Still no good?