Eric and I wander around antique shops pretty frequently. Recently, we were looking for a bench for our entryway (haven’t found it yet btw), and stumbled upon a really cool tripod instead! It had a tag that said “make me into a lamp!”
So we did.
The shop we went to is Made in the Shade in Andover Borough, NJ. We family shops here all the time, and my sister practically furnished her entire apartment from this place (Stef’s apartment tour coming soon).
Made in the Shade would have made the lamp, but we were able to take the supplies and Eric put it together instead.
This project took us less maaaaybe 2 hrs. Super easy. I tried to take a lot of pictures to explain the electric parts of the project – they’re not hard, but you don’t want to mess it up 🙂
Here’s the original tripod. It was $70….
Removing the surveying part of the tripod…
We cleaned off the top to make sure it was clean for the epoxy…
Scraping off the paint for the epoxy… We have antique-looking cloth covered electric wire, and we use it on all old electrical things.
Adding the light fixture….
Electrical wires! After we cut the cloth covering off of the electrical wire…
Stripping the wire… and turn the wire counter-clockwise.
Screw the black wire to the gold side, and the white attaches to the silver… That’s pretty important…
Then we add the antique-looking outlet plug…. it also has the black/gold, white/silver attaching of the wires…
AAAAND it works!!!!
Hope you liked it!! The drum was $20, bringing the total to $90….
