DIY: Fresh Flower Pendant Light

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If you’re going to be entertaining friends and family this New Year's Eve, you’ll probably want to pull out all the stops with your table settings – and what better way to do that than with a fresh flower centrepiece? But by the time you’ve accommodated your wine glasses, napkins, crackers – and your festive feast with all the trimmings – that doesn’t exactly leave much room for a creative masterpiece.

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Brittni Mehlhof, author and founder of Paper & Stitch, has come up with the perfect solution to this problem – in the form of this magnificent flower pendant light. By creating something that is suspended from the ceiling, you get all of the drama without losing any of your valuable table space.

Fabulously festive flowers

To create her display, Mehlhof has used an array of rich, vibrant and textural blooms, as follows:

1. Main flowers: Dahlias (dark red, burgundy and purple), mini calla lilies (burgundy), purple veronica

2. Filler: Waxflowers, eryngium orion thistle, scabiosa pods, privet berries

3. Greenery: Viburnum, dusty miller, green pittisporum

fresh flower light

What else you’ll need…

  • Large wire basket with a hole at the top that your light kit will fit through
  • Light kit/pendant cord like this one from IKEA + lightbulb
  • Floral tape + Floral Wire (I used two gauges - one thin and one thick/ heavy duty)
  • Scissors + Wire cutters (optional - for the thicker gauge wire)

For the full, illustrated step-by-step instructions, head to the Paper & Stitch blog post.

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