Friday - DIY-Day!!! Make yourself a modern Pendant Light !

Now im sure you've seen this popular yet surprisingly expensive light cover elsewhere:


Listed for a starting price of $587 (that's £387 to us brits!) for a small pendant cover upto a staggering $1,127 (£748) for a large one at DesignWithinReach - I don't know about you but that is certainly not Design Within Reach of my wallet. I'm pretty certain I could redo a large chunk of my house at that price.

however fear not, the lovely people over at: www.eHow.com have made this article HERE:

The basics are this really:

• Get an inflated balloon at the requied size.
• Get String, Yarn, Hemp (any of which you could dye for a more striking piece) and a whole lot of p.v.a glue
• attach the string in a criss-cross pattern making sure to leave plenty of gaps for light to escape and create interesting patterns across your room.
• allow to dry
• cut holes if there isn't enough useful light.

Interesting changes to it could be to dramatically alter the lamps sillhouete by maybe cutting a quarter of the shade off at a diagonal to allow my focused areas of light. Also you could cut different shapes (rather than the ubiquitous circle) to allow light to flood out.

so simple my little neice could help do it!

The first of many to come...

Rather than bore you with my life history (if you are actually interested in the man behind the blog - feel free to take a peak at the about me section).

I'm planning to break down each day of the week into its own 'theme' day so to speak. The plan is as follows:

Monday - Theory-day. General rules of Design Theory for that perfect look.

Tuesday - Colour-day Combination masterclass - the how to's and no no's of
design.

Wednesday - Finaltouches-dayFurnishing and adding the final touches.

Thursday - Help-day Dealing with less-desireably features in your home.

Friday - DIY-day project or two for inspiration and to do over the weekend.

Saturday - Art-day of self-indulgence featuring Art & Graphic Design by yours
truly.

Sunday - Feature-day, featuring another page/blog or design from someone else.


These days may change over time depending upon how useful and how enjoyable they are to read.

Ultimately I know initially I'll have a small readership but hopefully over time and with some good writing I'll have more than a handfull of readers interested in the knowledge I hope I can depart.