Weekends past... and a craft room revealed!

A couple of weekends ago my parents came up for a visit and we spent the majority of our time shopping for LCD TV stands, enjoying wonderful food together (a specialty of ours!), putting the finishing touches on my new craft room and discussing future home improvement projects. It's those times spent together doing simple, sometimes mundane, tasks together when I appreciate my family the most.

If you've been missing out on all of the updates on my new craft room, check out this blog post where I share part one of this big project & the newly published part two. We're pretty stoked over here to say the least :-)

One of my favorite projects I worked on in the craft room was the refurbishing of an old(er) brass chandelier and making it into my ideal shabby chic light source for my new favorite room in the house. 

I was able to turn this:

Into this:

 

Not too shabby, right?!? I had been shopping around our various home improvement and specialty lighting stores as well as perusing the internet and couldn't find anything just right within my budget... So, when I saw that brass beauty above hanging in a local antique store window, I knew it was the one for me! A bit of spray paint, hot glue and glass beads later I had the finished product - voila!

I have to say I am a little proud. I created the "crystal" chandelier of my dreams for about a quarter (or more!) than even my cheapest lighting option! Wahooo... 

At one point, I had this chandelier hanging from a big tree branch, swaying in the breeze as I spray painted it with in a soft white tone, with just a tough of light texture - exactly what this fixture needed! I'd also had a bit of a difficult time trying to locate the perfect beads, since I didn't know exactly what I was going to do with them. I must have purchased close to $100 worth of beads and jewelry-making supplies from various craft stores only to use less than $15 worth for the look above - score!

I have to say that even the Hubs didn't have too hard of a time hanging the new fixture {with my Dad's help} knowing how much was invested into it :-)

My favorite workmen :-) Other than getting the length just right, it was a breeze and brightened the room up so much more than the standard ceiling-mount fixture with two dingy light bulbs that was in there before!

Thanks so much for joining me on my craft room creation project - what would be a dream room of yours to create in your house?!?! Up next for me? Humm, maybe an outdoor room, yea!