DIY $1.78 HOOK TO PICTURE LIGHT
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I took this $1.78 garage hook turned it into a 30 inch wide gallery light using LED tape. This is a beginner level DIY that required only miter shears/saw, impact driver, and drill. Rub n buff made the whole light come together seamlessly. For $1.78, it definitely gives "the look for less" and for less than $15, it turns into an actual light!
0:22 - Required Tools
0:50 - Building your Light
1:50 - Lighting the Light
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Hi, welcome back. I'm Kimberly with Adelaide's Design Co. and today I'm going to show you how I
took this $1.78 hook in order to make this 30-inch picture light for less than $15.
I love this project so much. It's a beginner DIY. You can easily use miter shears or even just a
saw box to cut your wood down. This just goes in with a normal screw gun and it's the ability to
To be honest with you, I didn't really care if it lit up. I was kind of just going for the look,
but when it took off I knew I had to find a way to actually light it up.
I ended up using three different pieces of scrap wood in order to make the long linear light.
You can start off with your hook and this cap actually comes off. After you have the light
made, you drill a hole in the middle of the wood piece. You drill a hole in the middle of
and then you use a small screw that won't go through your linear light to be able to attach
the cap. The next step is you'll finish it. I found a combination of black acrylic paint with
gold leaf rub and buff was what worked best for mine. It ended up matching the satin brass finish
of our light fixtures almost perfectly. For installing at this non-lit level, I used two
screws through the existing hook holes. You can stop here and honestly I think it looks like a
really cool sculptural picture light if you're never going to turn it on anyway. It's an awesome
look for less than two dollars. If you do want to light it, let's go. I scoured the internet because
I needed a light that was battery operated, thin enough for my profile, dimmable, wasn't an awful
color temperature, and had a remote since this is nine feet in the air. I originally found a
bar light at Home Depot that would have been perfect but it was only 12 inches wide and thicker
than I was going for. I'll link it below because it was perfect color. If yours is a little larger
or if you have a few of these in a row, they actually link together so you can operate them
all on one remote. I have two winners on the battery operated tape light. One seemed more
trustworthy and easier to return from Amazon and the other sounded like it could have been a great
color and solution as well. I'll go ahead and link both below and you can decide what works best for
your light. I went with the $16 Amazon option and honestly didn't realize that it would come with
two of everything, making it only $8 per light. The tape light adheres by pulling off the film
and sticking it to your light. I did add super glue to the corners where I folded it in on itself.
The battery pack is a nice circle that I put on the wall using the included 3M double-sided tape
circle. This is another spot where you could stop here and I think it looks awesome. If you want to
keep going, you absolutely can. I decided for mine that it made the most sense to integrate the
battery pack into the light itself so I'm going to show you how I did that next. I ended up using a
scrap piece of wood cut at a 45 degree angle on the top end, drilling holes to match the hooks
and fastening the hook through the scrap piece and into the stud using four inch screws.
I caulked around the edge of the battery pack and where the hook met the scrap wood spacer.
Keep in mind the battery pack will still need to be accessed so just make sure that you're able to
twist that puck light off. I bought a USB extender that I thought I would use and maybe I would have
if I had it before sticking the LED tape down on the linear light, but honestly now that it's done
I really don't mind the exposed connection and the rub and buff just made everything look
integrated. This is entirely personal preference but I hated it when I walked into my room. I
immediately went to the white LED tape. I decided that I had an extra in case I messed it up but
I ended up painting the white parts of the LED tape. I think it looks so much better when I
come into the room now whether it's on or off. Thank you so much for your time today. I hope
you try this. Please tag me if you do and like and subscribe so that you don't miss the next low
budget high impact DIY.