How to Make a Homemade Girly Chandelier

Select a garden basket with a rounded bottom and hang it in your work space. Spray your hanging basket with a coat of white paint. Spray from a short distance to ensure that the paint properly coats the basket. Let dry completely, then remove chains.

Turn the basket upside down and cut two pieces of thick-gauge aluminum wire several inches long. Thread wire through holes in the lighting fixture and around the edges of the basket’s small ring, now positioned at the top, at opposite points. Twist wires to secure the fixture tightly to the basket, and trim excess wire. Adjust your method depending on the style of fixture in your swag kit. Make sure the fixture is situated on the small ring so that the bulb will face downward into the basket chandelier instead of pointing outward.

Use scissors to cut the necklaces at a single point, transforming them into long strands. Be sure to use necklaces that aren’t truly beaded so that your pearls do not slide off the broken strand.

Cut a several-inch strand of thin-gauge wire. Wrap it just below the first bead on the strand, around the string between the first and second beads, and twist several times. Wrap the ends of the same piece of wire around the large ring at the base of the upside-down basket. Twist several times to secure, then trim edges. Let the necklace hang freely from the ring.

Repeat until the large ring at the bottom of the basket is covered with strands of pearls. They will hang like tassels or fringe from the hoop.

Isolate a single artificial flower. Wrap its wire stem several times around one of the bars on the basket connecting the large ring to the small upper ring. Situate it near the large base, and secure with clear-drying craft glue. Let dry and trim the excess stem with wire cutters.

Place a second flower on the same bar just above the previous flower. Secure in the same method. Repeat, moving upward, to cover the bar. Do the same to cover the rest of the basket’s vertical bars with flowers. Let dry completely before moving or using your lamp.