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    Home Ā» Thrift Store Makeovers Ā» Floor Lamp Solar Chandelier

    Floor Lamp Solar Chandelier

    Published by Gail | Published March 8, 2017 | Updated February 13, 2023
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    How to make a floor lamp solar chandelier using bits and pieces of an old lamp and chandelier. Great for the garden or patio. So many options. #MyRepurposedLife #repurposed #floorlamp #chandelier #solar #lightfeature via @repurposedlifeHow to make a floor lamp solar chandelier using bits and pieces of an old lamp and chandelier. Great for the garden or patio. So many options. #MyRepurposedLife #repurposed #floorlamp #chandelier #solar #lightfeature via @repurposedlifeHow to make a floor lamp solar chandelier using bits and pieces of an old lamp and chandelier. Great for the garden or patio. So many options. #MyRepurposedLife #repurposed #floorlamp #chandelier #solar #lightfeature via @repurposedlife

    What do you get when you marry a floor lamp and a chandelier? A fabulous solar light feature!

    It’s already time for our Thrift Store Décor Project! It sort of snuck up on me this month, so I challenged myself to get this floor lamp solar light feature done!

    thrift store floor lampI bought this floor lamp last year at Vendors Village in Clarksville Indiana on a shopping spree. It was $10.

    free chandelierI looked and looked for the perfect chandelier, but couldn’t find one. Then this little beauty fell into my lap. My neighbor Rodney was getting rid of it and asked me if I wanted it. It would be perfect for my floor lamp solar light feature!

    gut chandelierAfter I checked to see if it would work with the thrift store floor lamp I got busy gutting it—taking all the wiring out of the chandelier. It’s fairly easy using some needle nosed pliers to snip the wires and pull them out of the arms of the chandelier.

    metallic spray paint chandelierTo see how the floor lamp solar light was really going to look, I needed to paint the two items to match. I used Krylon Metallic Spray Paint. If you look closely at the chandelier, it may look a little different. I removed the bottom portion and used some of it and part of the top of the floor lamp to change up the top a little. It was a lot of trial and error to get the pieces to match up.

    add chandelier to floor lamp postSee how the chandelier will rest right on top of the old floor lamp? All of that took place LAST March! Then it sat in the garage until this past weekend.

    retro-fit solar lightsI purchased these solar lights at the Dollar General Store for $3 each. They won’t work “as is” so I have to retro-fit them slightly. I removed the collar of the light and then put the light back together with existing screw and fitting.

    Funny side note: Looking at this picture it’s obvious that these lights are 2 different styles. All the time I worked on these I never noticed it until I took the final pictures in front of the tree.

    retro-fit lamp partsI needed some nuts to attach to the solar light fitting. To make it all work, I had to snap off the prongs of the original chandelier parts. Using pliers I just bent it back and forth until it broke off.

    secure nut with gorilla constructive adhesiveI used Gorilla Glue Construction Adhesive to attach the broken nuts to the black fitting on the solar light. I simply squirted it in a plastic tray and dipped the plastic fitting into it and placed the nut on it.

    spray paint solar lightsThe housing of the solar lights were metallic, but they didn’t match the chandelier very well, so I taped up the top of the solar lights and used the same metallic spray paint to make them match. I think the floor lamp solar light feature is going to come together!!

    solar light chandelier

    The nuts I tried to secure with the Gorilla Glue Construction Adhesive didn’t hold to the plastic when I attempted to thread them onto the stems.

    solar lights on chandelier[3]_thumb For now I removed the nuts and  simply rested the plastic fitting over the threads of the chandelier. (in this photo the nut is threaded, I removed it)

    testing flameless candles for chandelier[4]_thumbI tried out some flameless candles in the candle cups of the chandelier. That’s the beauty of a project like this, it’s very versatile! I could even have removed the reflective lower portion in the glass globe, and put the flameless candles in there. So many options!

    Floor Lamp Solar Light Feature

    Repurposed floor lamp and a chandelier make a great garden or patio solar light feature. MyRepurposedLife.comBut for now I left the solar lights in tact. You can see that I can also hang the chandelier as it is easily removable from the top of the floor lamp.

    repurposed chandelier solar garden light MyRepurposedLife.com

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    This floor lamp solar light feature was a fun project and if you’re making it for yourself, it’s fairly inexpensive. If I were to sell it, I’d have to ask $25 just to get my money back ($10 for lamp, $15 for Solar Lights). But all in all for a new lawn or garden feature, it’s a good deal!

    Be sure to stop by and see what my Thrift Store Décor Friends have been up to this month . . .

    Thrift Store Decor Challenge March 2017

    My Uncommon Slice of Suburbia Painted Succulent Planter

    Domestically Speaking Spring Thrift Store Basket

    Refresh Restyle Galvanized Cake Stand

    My Repurposed Life  Floor Lamp Solar Chandelier

    Petticoat Junktion Sisal Rope Planter

    See ya next month for another great Thrift Store Project!

    gail

    sharing at Creativity Unleashed

    Here's another great chandelier project for you.

    Hanging Solar Chandelier

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    1. Terri Spencer-Williams

      October 27, 2022 at 12:56 am

      Oh, this is GREAT, Gail. I just used the link you sent for me to try and this is going to do the trick, I do believe! Plus, I got an immediate other lamp globe replacement project that popped into my head! So, wow! Thank you-just wanted to let you know. You are a kind person.
      Best wishes, Terri šŸ™‚

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      • Gail Wilson

        November 02, 2022 at 11:52 am

        awww, thanks so much Terri. You made my day!

        gail

    2. Terri Spencer-Williams

      October 27, 2022 at 12:49 am

      Thank you, thank you!! Gail, that is kind of you to help me with this search! I got so excited that I went straight away to emailing you even before I tried the link! Good Grief. Tomorrow is my friend's recently deceased birthday-and she's feeling it. It will.would be a wonderful gift, almost in his honor but for her. He was the one who looked high and low for that piece for her. What a great husband-he never gave up looking! In any cases, your time and your kindness a truly, sincerely appreciated! Keep churning out your ideas and excellent descriptions. At this point, I must "live vicariously through" you and some others as I just cannot get up, out and go and do what I was able to before. Prayerfully, I will have the right Dr's-I surely worked hard to find them!--and I will be much better! BTW, I used to own and run an antiques emporium inside of a very nice antique mall where I live. I had the best time! I also loved learning the history of items and be able to recognize them, etc. Just sayin'. With sincere gratitude, Terri. šŸ™‚

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      • Gail Wilson

        November 02, 2022 at 11:52 am

        Hugs to you Terri as you work with your drs to improve your quality of life!! I hope you found a good replacement globe, if not--keep looking at that link, as things will turn over.
        gail

    3. Terri Spencer-Williams

      October 26, 2022 at 1:06 pm

      Gail, it is Terri, who was asking about the globes from the old chandelier that you changed into a solar lamp. Thanks very much for answering. Ye, I DO mean the glass globes that had the metal around them. They are wider at the to[p than at the base-you show them in a picture where they are all off and sitting beside your very cool project. My friend and I are looking for the shape in a milk-glass white color. They are larger, rounder at the top and a lot smaller at the bottom, to accommodate the lamps "projectile"-I'm SURE that is not the right word--area where the glove fits around a bulb. I think mine will be slightly larger than hers. I'm sorry my description was hard-it only goes to show that people(Just like you) who give directions on the marvelous tutorials are very challenged-because getting it right and in a great descriptive way, seems to be an art unto itself! You are kind to take note! If that helps it would be of great help to know where to find them online-we both are a like out of order for right now. Besides both of our extraordinary losses, and our friendship, she is doing therapy for knee surgery and mine are both "out of order"-the right one is swollen twice it's normal size-I have developed Rheumatoid Arthritis, of all things. And she is supposed to have her other knee done-this next one will be a total knee replacement. But we're here! "). I know it would brighten-oh-haha-didn't mean to make a pun-but my Dad loved them -anyway, it would lift our spirits. We both will actually and most likely cry-seriously. Then we'll enjoy them through our tears and think of our beloved's, who were trying to help us find these items and left the Earth with that 1 unfinished task. I hope that does not sound too dramatic. We would just really love having our lamps back and working! Any help as to where to look would be much appreciated. If not, then thank you anyway, and, as I said before, I will keep enjoying your repurposing adventures-in the bed with ice all over me! Blessings, Terri, for Terri and Susan

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      • Gail Wilson

        October 26, 2022 at 6:58 pm

        Terri,

        Try this link https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2380057.m570.l1313&_nkw=milk+glass+chandelier+globe&_sacat=0

        You will have to scroll through a bunch to see if you can find the one you're looking for. Good luck!

        gail

    4. TERRI SPENCER

      October 23, 2022 at 3:49 pm

      OH GAIL, --GUESS THAT SEEMS AN ODD WAY TO START THIS BUT YOU'LL GET IT IN A MINUTE! FOR ONE THING, I AM AN EVER-RAPT-ATTENTION PAYER TO WHAT YOU DO. YOUR PROJECTS ARE SO DARN USEFUL AS WELL AS LOVELY AND DESCRIPTIONS ARE GREAT. IT IS JUST THAT MY FRIEND DOWN THE STREET, WHO'S HUSBAND DIED THIS YEAR, AND I, WHO'S DAUGHTER DIED 3 YEAR AGO-WHILE MY FRIEND AND HER HUSBAND HELPED- HAVE BEEN SEARCHING TO NO AVAIL FOR THE OLDER BIG GLOBE LOOKING PARTS OF THE CHANDELIER YOU GOT FOR 10 BUCKS. WE HAVE BOTH BEEN LOOKING FOR ONES IN MILK GLASS, AND I DON'T KNOW IF SHE NEEDED ANY METAL AROUND RTHE BOTTOM, BUT I DIDN'T AND WE CAN'T FIND THEM ANYWHERE. HER HUBBY LOOKED FOR HER AND I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR BOTH OF US-MINE IS FOR A FLOOR LAMP THAT MY PARENTS GAVE ME THAT HAS BEEN AROUND FOR LIKE 80 YEARS OR SO, IT SEEMS, ANYWAY. I HAVE THE SHADE THAT GOES ON THAT- IT IS A BRASS FLOOR LAMP, ALTHOUGH THE "BRASS" HAS COME OFF THE BOTTOM-WHICH IS QUITE HEAVY- AND IT IS A METAL, WHICH DOESN'T DISTURB ME ONE BIT. IT HAS A HINGED ARM SO IT CAN BE CHANGED IN POSITION AND I DO NOT HAVE THE LIGHTING IN THIS HOUSE THAT WE NEED AND BESIDES, IT WAS MY PARENT'S! IT GOT KNOCKED OVER AND THEN THE GLASS GOT TOSSED-OR IT WAS MORE THAN BROKEN IN HALF OR EVEN A FEW BIG PIECES BECAUSE I WOULD HAVE MCGUYVERE'D A WAY TO FIX IT TO "LET THERE BE LIGHT", SAFELY! COULD YOU PLEASE GIVE US SOME POINTERS OF WHERE WE MIGHT LOOK ONLINE? WHAT WITH COVID AND HER KNEE SURGERIES AND COVID AND MY TWO NEWLY DIAGNOSED WEIRD ILLNESS-AT LAST THEIR NOT CONTAGIOUS- WE CANNOT GET OUT AND WANDER AROUND AS BEFORE! I THINK HERS IS GOING TO BE JUST A BIT SMALLER THAN MINE. IF YOU HAVE ANY THOUGHTS, IT WOULD BE MUCH APPRECIATED. OTHERWISE, THANKS ANYWAY AND KEEP UP ALL THE GOOD WORK. MAY YOU HAVE A FINE HOLIDAY SEASON, WHICH IS ALMOST ALREADY HERE! THANK YOU, GAIL.OH, I HAD AN UNCLE WHO WENT TO PURDUE, BTW. Oops, didn't know I had the all caps on. See, I need all the help I can get. LOL.

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      • Gail Wilson

        October 24, 2022 at 7:04 pm

        Terri,
        I'm so sorry, but I'm not exactly sure what kind of globes you're looking for? I'd love to help you out if I can figure out what exactly it is you're looking for. I got the lamp for $10. The chandelier I show in this project was free. Are you talking about the frosted glass globes with the rim around them?

        gail

    5. Jennie

      December 08, 2017 at 7:38 pm

      I love this so much that I did 2 from hanging lights on sheapherd hooks. I kept my solar lights in the little cups by using the globes that I found. The sun in Arizona is so strong after a year maybe 2 the solar lights need to be changed out. I bought the least expensive solar lights .99cents each, they all last the same amount of time.

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    6. Charlotte

      April 24, 2017 at 2:08 am

      Love, love, LOVE this! I am going to be on the lookout for these pieces!

      Reply
    7. Jo Miller

      March 30, 2017 at 4:30 pm

      Thanks for these very good instructions on making the solar lamp post. I have an old lamp I want to do this with and so pleased to find good instructions

      Reply
    8. Pamela Williams

      March 15, 2017 at 8:58 pm

      I love it! I've been hunting a thrifted chandelier for years.... I gave away two before I thought to do this...And of course I haven't found anything since!

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    9. Bliss

      March 09, 2017 at 7:20 pm

      I love it! Im gonna be on the lookout for parts, that light would kick up my patio a notch.

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    10. suzanne

      March 08, 2017 at 9:32 pm

      You are soooo good!

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    11. Debbie @ Refresh Restyle

      March 08, 2017 at 9:28 pm

      Now I need to look for these two! Love your first photo and you're wearing my fav shoes šŸ˜‰ This turned out so great!!

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      • Gail Wilson

        March 09, 2017 at 2:03 pm

        It's funny how if you just wait long enough, things come together! I'm still looking for a few tweaks on this project....something to hold the lights on the stems more permanently.

        šŸ™‚ hahaha you noticed the shoes! That's my go-to pair. The ones I wore (and will wear again) are a different color.

    12. Donna

      March 08, 2017 at 7:14 pm

      Love it! I have an old lamp and similar chandelier. You are so generous to share your creativeness.
      Happy Birthday you look beautiful and your puppy is adorable. Enjoy every day.
      Donna

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      • Gail Wilson

        March 08, 2017 at 7:36 pm

        Donna,

        Yay! So happy to inspire you to make a new project. šŸ™‚
        Thanks for the birthday wishes. I appreciate it.

        gail

    13. Maryann @ Domestically Speaking

      March 08, 2017 at 4:31 pm

      I LOVE how that turned out Gail... SO clever!

      Reply
    14. larry jkelley jr

      March 08, 2017 at 1:33 pm

      ok I clicked on acubborad door and it took me to a lamp

      Reply
      • Gail Wilson

        March 08, 2017 at 7:37 pm

        Larry,

        I don't know where you clicked from or why you were taken to the wrong post. Perhaps you were looking for this one?

        https://www.myrepurposedlife.com/easy-cabinet-door-projects/

        gail

    15. kristin salazar

      March 08, 2017 at 1:13 pm

      Oh WOW what a makeover! I have a light I really want to do this too, thank you for all the tips!

      Reply
    16. Kathy

      March 08, 2017 at 11:18 am

      Wow, all of that trial and error worked. Love the project and I can totally relate to not noticing the difference in the solar lights.

      Reply
    17. Kimberly

      March 08, 2017 at 10:43 am

      Gail, I think you read my mind! Yesterday I was googling "chandelier lamps" for inspiration images about marrying the two things. Lo and behold this morning I open your website to see this. Now I am thinking of doing one inside and one out!

      Reply
    18. GirlfromWVa

      March 08, 2017 at 9:15 am

      Awesome project. Love how the chandy can be used on lamp base or hung. The color is very nice.

      Reply

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