Knock Off Grain Sieve Light Fixture

I haven’t shared a mudroom update for a while, but today I’m changing that.

Since we’ve completely re-done everything in our little mudroom, I thought it would only be fitting to make a new light fixture as well. Plus, I loved how our laundry room light turned out, and I thought it would be cool to have two connected rooms match a wee bit through their lighting…

So, let me introduce you to our newest light, our knock off grain sieve light fixture…

It’s industrial and farmhouse and full of character. My favorite!

And, oh man, I’ve had the biggest crush on grain sieves. I’ve been searching for one, but only found ones that were huge or really expensive. I decided to take matters into my own hands and create a knock off… I think I spent about $20.00.

Here’s how I made it…

To make the faux grain sieve, I used 4 pieces of basswood. Basswood is super light weight and really flexible. I bought mine at our local craft store.

It’s also really thin, so extra care is needed…

After I pulled off all the labels, I laid the basswood on a flat surface, overlapping the ends…

I squeezed Gorilla Glue on the tip of one piece, about 2 1/2″ wide…

Then I just pushed the second piece of basswood on top and held it firmly in place for a few seconds…

I used my staple gun to staple through both piece of wood in two different sections…

I gently lifted up the staples and flipped the pieces over…

I used a screw driver to fold the staples over…

Then I brought the two ends together, making the size diameter that I wanted, and stapled the two ends together…

I was left with this:

Then, I attached the other two pieces together and wrapped them around the basswood circle…

Once I had them stapled together, I was left with this:

I used a couple dabs of hot glue to hold the two together in a few places, then I got started on the metal top…

I simply rolled out my wire and placed the “grain sieve” on top. I used a sharpie to draw around it…

Then used a pair of tin snips to cut the circle…

To finish the grain sieve, I used Early American Stain by Minwax, then gave it a nice coat of dark wax…

I made sure to build up the wax around the staples, as added grime/ dirt that would have collected over the years of heavy use…

For the wire, I simply sprayed it with black spray paint, let it dry, then gave it a light coat of multicolored texture spray paint….

Then, to attach it to the grain sieve, I used thin wire and pushed it through the thin basswood…

And wrapped it around the wire…

I used a pair of needle nose pliers and twisted the two ends together…

I went around the entire grain sieve, then snipped off the ends of the wire…

Next, to attach the light, I measured and found the center of the sieve…

Then snipped a hole in the center so that I could push through the light…

I bought a pendant light kit at Home Depot…

In order to push the end of the light fixture through the wire, I had to remove the ceiling plate….

Then I stuffed the wire through the hole…

All that was left at that point, was to hang it…

I am so over the moon excited with the way it turned out…

It’s just lovely….

 And I absolutely adore the “used” look of it…

 And those little details, well they push me over the edge!

It’s the absolute perfect touch for our mudroom and I couldn’t be happier with how everything is coming together! We have a few more projects to finish, then I’m going to starting adding all those little details…