#Bubble light fixture install
#Bubble light fixture code
#Bubble light fixture zip

But working slowly and patiently, I got them all attached.Īnd then I continued with another row, and then another, to cover as much of the wire basket as possible. This took some patience, especially since the hole on the bottom of the wire basket was too small for me to fit my hand inside. I just used the little hangers that come on the ornaments to attach them to the wire basket so that they would snug up to the wire basket as close as possible. Next, I used standard size frosted glass Christmas ornaments (about 2.5″) around the top of the basket. Then I just used some gold acrylic paint that I had on hand to paint those screws and washers before moving on to the next step.

#Bubble light fixture zip

I simply zip tied the hanging flower basket to the ceiling medallion, cut off the excess plastic tie, and then tighten up the screws the rest of the way so that the ceiling medallion was snug against the ceiling.

And I just attached it to the ceiling medallion using zip ties, which you can find in the electrical department of the big box home improvement stores. Then one day a couple of months ago, I saw an Instagram reel from Chris Loves Julia of their bubble chandelier (which cost about $2500) being installed and put together, and when I saw the form to which those glass bubbles were attached, I thought, “Oh my gosh! That looks exactly like a hanging flower basket!” That’s when I bought all of the “bubbles” (which are frosted glass Christmas ornaments), but I wondered for a long time exactly how I was going to attach all of the bubbles. I planned this chandelier back in the fall of last year (2021). I left them a bit loose so that I could attach the form onto which the glass bubbles would be hung.Īnd the form that I used was a flower basket that I found on Amazon. I didn’t screw them tight to the ceiling at this point.

#Bubble light fixture install

To install the medallion, I used washers, 2-inch screws, and drywall anchors to screw the medallion onto the ceiling through the small holes. There are no bulbs to change, and I’m sure I’ll get tired of the bubble light long before the LED light stops working. It’s an LED light, and the box said that it’s supposed to last for 14 years with regular use, so I shouldn’t ever need to get to the light.

As you can see, it’s just a normal recessed light, and I had it wired on a separate switch from the other recessed lights in the room. Here’s a look at the light above the bathtub. That spray paint was perfect, and I had a perfect gold medallion to start my DIY bubble chandelier project… That’s nothing that a couple of coats of spray paint can’t fix. I purchased this one from Wayfair, and I selected the antique brass finish in the 24-inch size.Īs you can see, the color of the one I received is nothing like the color of the antique brass medallion on the Wayfair website, even though the one I received was labeled “antique brass” on the back. So let me show you how I made this DIY glass bubble light.įirst, I started with a ceiling medallion. It’s such a pretty glow of light, which is the perfect amount of ambient light when I want to take a bubble bath at night. Here’s what it looks like when that recessed light is turned on and the other recessed lights are turned off… So here’s how my DIY glass bubble chandelier turned out…Īnd here’s the whole view with the bathtub, the mural, and the chandelier (with an unfinished wall on the left side)…Īnd again, all of those glass bubbles are hanging around a recessed light, which does work, and does provide light through all of those glass bubbles. The recessed light provides the light, but it is not touching or connected in any way to the decorative part of the chandelier. In other words, a person could stand in my bathtub while it’s completely filled with water and touch any part of my chandelier, and it wouldn’t shock them because my chandelier is nothing more than a ceiling mounted decoration hanging around a recessed light. So I had to get a little creative with this and find a way to get the look of a chandelier without the decorative parts that hang below the ceiling being wired.

#Bubble light fixture code

The reason for that is because this is going over my bathtub, and it’s against building code to put a chandelier over a bathtub. But the main reason I decided to DIY this light is that I didn’t want the actual decorative part of the chandelier to have any electricity running to it. First, I wanted a large flush mount bubble light (not semi-flush mount, but actually flush mount), and those are virtually impossible to find. This is a DIY light that I made myself, and I did that for two reasons. I’ve been dreaming of a glass bubble chandelier over my bathtub for many months now, and I finally have it.