She Turns Glass Jars Into Beautiful Frosted Lights

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Beautiful frosted sconce lights introduce a fairy-tale-like glow to your home, offering you a way to add next-level elegance to your decorating scheme without looking busy. At the same time, the frosted glass is kinder to your eyes than other types of lighting can be. It's no wonder, then, that their beauty inspired YouTube DIYer, She So CraftDee, to try her hand at making her own version of frosted sconce lamps. And, while the most chi-chi sconces look high-end, the YouTube DIYer's use of materials like Mason jars, plain wood finials, and Dollar Tree fairy lights prove that you can add a classy piece of illumination to your home without taking a chunk from your wallet.

The YouTuber used Mason-style jars with the two-piece lids to make her beautiful DIY wall sconces. Alternatively, you can buy canning jars or repurpose some glass jars you already have. Additionally, the lids got their own version of a crown made by the DIYer from wood finials. Look for something like the WADDELL Acorn Post Top with an attached screw for this part of the DIY. You'll need a spool of Black Floral Wire (or something like it). Finally, you'll need a string of fairy lights — one string for each sconce you intend to make.

From your tool box, you'll take a drill, some scissors, and a glue gun. To dress up the jar, you'll need both some Rust-Oleum Frosted Glass Spray Paint, some flat black spray paint, and some black acrylic paint. Since you're coloring some items for this by hand, you'll also need paint brushes.

She So CraftDee gave the jars the star treatment first. The DIYer coated each of the jars she made with a couple of layers of the frosted glass spray paint. When you do your own version of this DIY, you'll need to prime the can of spray paint: Just give it a good shake until the internal mixing ball starts to rattle. Your hand should move in a back-and-forth motion as you spray on the paint. Wait a few minutes between coats to give each one sufficient time to dry. This should make the paint look smooth on the glass once this step is done.

While you wait for the jar to dry, spray paint the lids black and hand paint the finial with the black acrylic paint. Once everything is dry, position the finial in the middle of the interior jar lid piece and press down lightly until the tip of the screw makes an indentation in the lid. Next, drill a hole in the lid where the indentation is and screw the finial on. Then, reassemble the jar's lids so that the two pieces are together. (The interior portion of the lid will have the finial screwed into it.) Finally, drop a string of the fairy lights into the bottom of the jar.

After that, make a hanger for the sconce lamp out of the floral wire. Cut it into a strip and glue each end of the wire just below the lip of the jar. Once the glue dries, screw the lids onto the jar. You should catch the wire hanger under the screw cap. This keeps the hanger in place once you hang the sconce light up.

Sconce lights typically hang from or sit on some sort of mount. For She So CraftDee, this meant attaching her finished frosted jar lamps to a base made from inexpensive pieces of board, a sconce hook, and a D-ring. The two main pieces — the board and the sconce hook — are items you can mix and match to create a totally unique look. For example, try a distressed paint motif on the wooden mount if you've embraced a rustic or shabby chic decor style. As for the hooks for the front of the sconce mount, StoutMax Lantern Wall Hangers would look pretty. Once you attach the front hook, you'd then add the D-ring hook to the back so that you can hang the sconce up — frost jars, wood mount, and all. 

Or, if you're a fan of the candle-on-a-shelf wall sconces, try making a mount for the frosted glass jars out of something like Fixwal Small Floating Shelves. Since you've painted the lid and the finial black, adding the lights on the darkest versions of these shelves would look sharp. And, in this instance, it might even be cool to swap out the string lights for a flickering LED candle. Finally, it's also possible to go with something of the minimalist persuasion. Metal plant hangers that extend out from the wall, like powder-coated steel KOOKASHOP 6-Inch Plant Hanger, would work. Moreover, this cool look puts your DIY frosted wall sconce solidly into the industrial decor design camp , demonstrating once again just how versatile this beautiful frosted glass craft is.