How to Make a Chandelier With Electric Lights

Place your hanging wire basket on a flat surface at least waist high in front of you.

Cut about 50 to 70 pieces from your thick gauge wire, each about 2 inches long. You may need to cut more pieces as you go along, but this number should be sufficient to start with.

Place your first electric wire line on the middle of the hanging wire basket. Start with the end that has an electrical plug instead of the side that has a socket to plug into.

Fold the plug over the middle of the hanging basket so that the plug is in the inside of the basket.

Tie one piece of the wire to hold the string of lights in place. After you have tied the wire make sure that it is snugly in place.

Extend the lights down to the bottom of the basket and tie it in place with a wire. You will want to extend it down at a slight angle. After you have tied the second wire, one of the lines of electric light will be in place. Repeat these steps by bringing the wire up and down the hanging wire basket until the entire exterior is filled with the electric lights. Any portion of the wire that has not been used can be taped to the inside of the basket.

Place your second electric light wire where you left the other end of the first wire in the center of the interior of the basket. Using the socket end of the second string of lights, connect the two strings of light. After plugging in the second string, tie it in place with a piece of the thick gauge wire.

Extend the lights up to the top of the basket at a slight angle. Once the lights are at the top, tie it in place with another wire. Repeat these steps by bringing the lights up and down at a slight angle until the interior of the basket is full of lights as well.

Attach a thin, inconspicuous extension cord from the chandelier to the nearest electrical outlet. If you want to hide the cord, you can paint it the color of the wall that it will hang from. You will also want to color the ceiling portion of the extension cord the same color as the ceiling so that people are not distracted by the extension cord when they are admiring the chandelier.