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Pottery Barn Lamp Knockoff

October 17, 2014

 

I love Pottery  Barn,  I just do. While I was perusing their catalog I came along a vintage style spotlight lamp.  Coincidentally  at the time I was also  trying to stage some shelves and was having a heck of a time finding something to fill a tall thin space.  LIGHT BULB…  I needed that  lamp!   Actually,  I didn’t need a lamp,  I just wanted it  because it looked awesome…  One thing led to another… the rest is history.

Pottery barn lamp pinterest   sawdust2stitches

Materials  Used

  • Old Tripod
  •  Metal Quart Size Paint Can
  •  Steel Wool
  •  Gray Spray Paint Primer
  •  Various Metallic Spray Paint
  • 1/4″ Bolt w/washer and nut

Tools Suggested

  • Drill
  • 1/4″ Drill Bit

  After  a little bit of brainstorming I  concluded that the Pottery Barn lamp was  essentially a metal can mounted on a tripod…  Lucky (unlucky?) for me,  my kids had been playing with my tripod a few months ago.  Needless to say, it needed to be replaced.   The  broken one would work perfectly for the lamp!  All  I needed now was a largemetal  can.  I had considered  metal  food cans,  but I really  didn’t want the metal ridges on it.  Then  it dawned on me,  they  sell  empty paint cans at Depot!  Perfection.

I began  by  scuffing up the paint can and the tripod as much as possible.  Steel wool  seemed to do the trick.  The idea is to simply scuff up the surface enough that the spray paint can properly adhere.

Next I used the 1/4″ drill bit and drilled a hole through  the paint can.

Sawdust2stitches spotlight lamp drill hole

Then  drill through  the tripod. (Basically anywhere that  is accessible and somewhat  level surface).

Spotlight  drill hole in tripod sawdust2stitches edit

After  the  holes are drilled,   I  used a 1/4″ bolt,  a washer and a  nut to connect the tripod to the paint can.

Spotlight Bolt sawdust2stitches edit  At this point  I took a  gray  primer and sprayed the entire structure.  I followed up by dusting  the entire thing with  several different metallic spray paints.  I  used a technique  very similar to the  one I used on this project.

For the place that I was going to put this,  I did not need to  have it be a functional lamp, BUT  honestly if you are  set on the idea of it being functional,  it is doable!  Ikea sells a cord light kit for $5.00 that could easily  be adapted to fit  your new lamp.hemma-cord-set__36078_PE126952_S4

 Ta-da!  There you have it a Pottery Barn-esque spotlight for a fraction of the cost!

Spotlight closeup Sawdust2stitches

 

spotlight on shelf sawdust2stitches

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Comments

  1. Chrysta Richards says

    November 24, 2014 at 12:51 am

    Hey, so I see your stuff fairly often, but I just noticed the drawing of the Washington, DC temple on the shelf in this post. I got married there and proceeded to move all over with my Army husband, but we are in the Woodbridge, VA stake at the moment, south of DC. Just curious if you’re local-ish to me!

    • coreydecker@gmail.com says

      November 24, 2014 at 12:55 am

      Good eye! I actually live in Florida. I have just always loved that temple and decided to sketch it up. It’s a beautiful place, enjoy it, and thanks for reading!

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