Use A Dollar Tree Glass To DIY A Wall Sconce Light That Looks So High-End

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Mood lighting, depending on your tastes and budget, will run you anywhere from a little over $20 to a couple of hundred dollars. These lighting systems have their advantages, including offering you a lighting system that's ready to use once you pull it out of the box. However, they don't feel as personal as a bespoke light. Thanks to Dollar Tree, putting together a chic and glamorous lamp requires just a few Tapered Champagne Flutes and some LED String Lights.

Many sconces boast a protective bubble made of glass. For this Dollar Tree DIY light, the Champagne glasses play that role. You'll house delicate wisps of string lights inside the cup portion of the flute. A Rectangle Silver Charger Plate provides a backdrop for the lights. Thanks to its reflective surface, the charger plate augments the light that the LED lights give off, amping up the glow put out by the string lights. You can go in a different direction by using one of Dollar Tree's round gold charger plates for this DIY instead. This piece takes on a fairy tale glow once you glue embellishments onto the charger plate and the Champagne flutes. You can use any kind that you'd like, though strands of salbsever Rhinestone Chain Trim give it some extra sparkly bling. 

Finally, you'll assemble the cheap Dollar Tree decor piece with the help of a few crafting tools. Two glues — E6000 and your glue gun filled with glue sticks — fasten everything together. You'll also need some sawtooth-style picture hangers, some tape, and a drill, too, to complete the sconce.

You'll mount the glasses onto the front of the charger platter, but first, you should drill a hole into the plate. To measure this, lay a glass down on the plate, rest the glass base on the plate lip, and drill a hole just above the top of where the glass meets the plate. It'll be about a third of the way down from the top of the glass. Remove the glass and lay drops of E6000 down the center of the plate, stopping just below the hole. You'll glue the glass to the platter with these glue drops, so make sure you have enough glue to fasten the flute solidly to the plate.

Next, hot glue strings of the rhinestones along the edge of the platter and around the base and lip of the glass. Then, string the LED lights through the hole, coming in from the backside. Stuff the string lights into the glass and tape the battery pack to the back of the platter. Finally, glue an EesTeck Small Sawtooth Picture Hanger to the back of the platter and hang it up. 

If you'd like to embellish the platter, paint the platter's interior rectangle a bold color. Or make it a fairy-inspired light by adhering some Wallercity Vintage Red Rose Contact Paper to the rectangular interior of the platter to create something reminiscent of a "Beauty and the Beast" motif. It'd be a fun touch to put a silk Dollar Tree rose in the glass and wind the LED lights around it to augment the fairy tale vibe.