I've always wanted to make my own hanging
chandelier for under my porch so I headed out to my local Dollar Store and I picked up some of this
plastic garden fence, so I picked up four of these plastic fences for $1.75 and next I also took
a old tomato cage and I cut off the top portion of it leaving just the bottom ring. Then I took
a piece of off-cut welded wire mesh that I had left over from another project and I cut it to
fit inside the ring and then I just bended the wires around the outside of the tomato cage ring.
For these corner areas where it doesn't quite fit I just took a pair of wire cutters, cut off
the excess and then bent it around the wire so that it's attached to the tomato cage. For my
fence pieces I just broke off the pegs that stick in the ground. Again this is really lightweight
past plastic so it's easy to bend and break off. Then I took my first piece and using some zip ties
I tied it around onto the tomato cage making sure that the zip ties were pulled nice and tight and
I added zip ties every couple of inches so to make sure that my fence was secure around the tomato
cage. I added on another piece of the fence using the guide holes on the fence and clicking it into
place and again working with more zip ties. I had an opening where the two fence pieces didn't quite
meet so I broke off another piece of the fence, worked it in with zip ties and connected it as
well. Once it was all connected and zip tied on I came in with some Rust-oleum satin heirloom
white paint and I spray painted the whole piece. Once I let it fully dry I came in with this black
wax from Country Chic Paint and added just a bit of dimension so it wasn't so flat working it in
to almost make it look like rusted raw iron. Then I took these battery operated fairy lights and I
worked them around the outside of the chandelier wrapping them around, this is a wired fairy
light so I could just wrap it and it would stay in place and then I also took a battery operated
puck light and I secured that with zip ties to the top of my wire fence mesh in the middle so that
I have two options for lighting when I want to use this chandelier. To add some beauty and a more
decorative finish I took these faux white branches and I worked them around the top of the chandelier
just zip tying them on. Since this is going outside, this greenery is plastic so it is meant
to go outside and it will withstand weather and temperature. So once I had that done this is my
finished chandelier here outside under my porch. It is a covered porch so I'm not worried too much
about the rain but I really love the beauty and elegance that this chandelier adds to my porch.
It is low enough that I can reach from the ground to change the batteries or turn the puck light
on and off but if I was going to hang it in a higher space I would probably get a puck light
or battery lights that can be controlled with a remote. That just makes it easier but for me this
works for my space and I am so happy with how this project turned out. Thank you so much for tuning
into Hometalk and we'll see you on another video. So we are going to start our project with
these flexible plastic garden fences. I got mine at Dollar Tree you should only need
about four of these for this project and I'm going to start with the first two. I'm going
to start by cutting the bottoms off of this just using regular scissors for this part. You
want to make sure you're using sharp scissors, these ones are a little dull. So
now that I've cut the spikes off I'm going to get those out of the way. What
we're going to be doing is we are going to be laying our pieces of garden fence kind of
overlapping so I'm going to have it overlap about this much, so these two pieces are
kind of overlapping with the other side but I'm just going to cut it and I'm
going to secure these two pieces together. Now you can use a variety of things for this,
I'm going to be using floral wire for this. I'm going to be securing this on three points
so I'm probably going to secure it up here and here because I don't want it wiggling too much
so see if it if you only secure it in one spot it's really going to be a little harder to work
with especially with what we're going to do for this project. Now what we're going to do is we're
going to basically connect these on the same place over here. We still want to maintain that round
shape but we'll get into that in a bit, so yeah, we're going to do the same thing essentially
on the other side and we will be back. So what we're going to do is we are going to take
our round piece and we're going to lay it over because essentially we're going to be using this
as our bottom. So yeah, so we're going to use this over our bottom kind of best fit and see where we
need to cut along the fence here so I think I'm actually going to cut right here. So we're going
to set this aside, we're going to place this over and we are going to work on attaching this top
piece to this bottom piece. I'm going to do it I'm going to start in four corners and then I'm going
to see what other positions need to be added. So now what we're going to do is we are going to
cut off the excess over here so if you can see we have a little bit of excess
here. I'm going to flip this over, I'm just going to make sure I cut off
as much of it as I can. There we go. Alright, so now we have this round piece finished
and we got our base done so we're going to move on to our next step which is creating a top. Alright
for this next step we're going to take our fourth piece of fence and we are going to essentially
be separating it so I'm going to cut down the middle first just to make it a little easier
to work with. Okay, so we're going to start by using this bottom half piece and we're going to
cut the spikes off again like we did on the last couple of fences for the basket and so we're
going to keep this side nice and we're going to we're going to cut right above this
little guy right here this little piece and we're going to go straight across. Okay so we have this piece all ready, I'm going to put it on this to the
side so we can work on the other one. For this piece we are going to cut
across but we are going to cut across this top part. We're going to
get rid of the little spiky guys and the little hoops. So what we're going to do for this part is we're
just going to lay them on top of one another and we're just going to secure them in place with
our wire so pulling out my handy dandy wire again, we're going to do the same thing we did
to secure the other part of our basket so stay tuned, we will be back when this is all
secured together and reinforced with our wire. We're going to do it exactly the same way, we
just want these two pieces to stay attached. Alright so this is now secured so we are going to
attach this piece to our lower part with wire and then we are going to attach it on the other side
so it's going to become a basket. Alright so now that this is all attached we are going to add a
coat of some of my Rust-oleum chalked linen white. You can paint this obviously any color you want
but I want to give it kind of an aged rustic vibe so I'm going to be using a normal brush
and probably a foam brush for this step. We're just gonna start applying our paint and
like I said we want this to kind of look a little rustic so it doesn't need to be perfectly
coated but we're going to cover the entire thing and we'll let it dry. Alright so now we've let the
paint dry for our basket and I'm going to add my own little spin to this so you can stop at this
point if you'd like but I'm going to be adding some twine to my basket in certain areas just
to give it like a really nice decorative accent and also to keep the basket in the position that
I want it to be. So first I'm going to start with my side the sides of my handles
but I want to kind of like I said, reinforce this so it doesn't go anywhere
but also kind of give it like a rustic look and so I'm probably going to have to ball up
my twine a little bit just so it's easier to work with. Essentially I'm just going to
try and kind of cover up this area so I'm going to go ahead and keep wrapping my twine
so we will be back when we're ready to move on to the next step. So now I've wrapped the the
top and the sides with the twine so we're going to take this and we're going to go put it out on
my screened in porch for where it's going to live.
