She Turns A Glass Pickle Jar Into A Charming Pendant Light For Your Porch

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Pickle jars: Those handy holders of the salty and sour snacks are made almost embarrassingly large, in part, because most pickle fans want to eat those brined cukes by the vatful. And as it turns out, the fact that a pickle jar is nearly the size of a brewer's kettle is also the reason crafters love it as much as pickle eaters do. Thanks to its roomy circumference, a large pickle jar can be repurposed for practical home decor, like a charming and impressive-looking pendant light for your porch. Best of all, this is such a simple DIY that you could theoretically start making it in late afternoon, and be ready to hang it out on your patio by nightfall.

All exaggeration aside, pickle jars come in a surprising number of sizes, from small to enormous. However, from a style perspective, the larger jars work best for this DIY, as Miss Clare Hoops, the TikTok creator behind the lamp, demonstrates. A larger size makes it a statement piece on your patio. Additionally, a pickle jar light lends itself to a rustic or farmhouse style of decor. Therefore, you might want to allow that design sensibility to influence your choice of pendant light kit to use. The LYOOWNG DIY Pendant Light Lamp Kit would work, though it's certainly not the only option you have.

The rest of the supplies needed are practical tools. You'll need cleaning tools such as soap, a scrub brush, and possibly a washcloth. The project also requires a hammer, a long screw with a pointed tip, some old boards, and a black permanent marker.

Give the jar a good scrub to remove pickle odors and to loosen any label still clinging to its side. Since you're working with electrical parts, allow it to dry thoroughly before moving on to the next steps. Once it is dry, you'll need an old board. You'll be pounding the screw into the lid, so you need the board to protect your work surface.

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Take the lamp kit apart and use its retaining ring to make a circle on the top of the jar's lid. You'll mark the interior of the ring instead of tracing around its exterior. Ensure that the ring you draw with the marker is centered. Then, puncture a series of holes on the lid, following the line of the circle. The holes need to be close together. Once that's done, use the hammer to pound on the space inside the boundary of the ring of holes until the metal piece in the middle breaks through. Bend any jagged edges back out of the way using the pliers. Then, screw the lamp components in place to finish the light.

Finally, here's a pro tip to try: You can make some creative embellishments to your DIY porch light to amp up its charm factor. For example, you could stencil designs, like SUNVERSE Fall Stencils for Crafts, on the side of the jar with glass paint. Once the autumn holidays are over, you'll simply remove the painted jar from the lid and replace it with a non-holiday-themed jar. With this hack, only the lamp's jar changes, not the lid, which is this DIY's most time-consuming part to make.