A New Lighting Fixture for the Family Room

Well hello!!

You've probably noticed a new ceiling fixture in this room if you visited me during the summer home tour last week.

Yep.

The drum ceiling fixture you see in the picture below is gone. Instead, a bigger and more beautiful pendant light replaced it. :)

However, the new light needed a minor cord fixing, and that's the story I have for you today.

The drum light was installed about three years ago after the built-in unit was completed. It was a temporary solution because I didn't have the time or money to buy what I wanted at the time. The drum shade was the fixture I used above the kitchen table for many years.

Earlier this year, I removed the drum shade because I thought I could use it in the Parisian room I was decorating. This is how this room looked for the past five months. :D

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I'd been drooling over this light fixture for a long time! I finally gave in and placed the order, but I had to wait about four months for it to arrive. Yep, it was backordered.

The waiting time was well worth it. I love this light!

Well, I love it all except for one single thing, that black cord!🤔

How to change the color of the electrical cord

| Bubbles Brass Ring Pendant Light |

In my opinion, and given that most ceilings are white, they should sell this light with a white cord—period.

We installed it, and I decided to live with it, thinking the black cord would eventually stop bothering me.

NOPE.

It was impossible to ignore that black cord. I couldn't stand it!

Time to change it.

They sell this same type of cord in a myriad of colors. Again, they should've made it white! :/

Here, this site: Color Cord has that same type of electrical cord in many colors, and they sell them by the yard.

However, I didn't want to deal with electrical work, so my easy solution was to paint the cord, and this is how it went:

1. USE PAINTERS TAPE TO PROTECT THE FIXTURE FROM GETTING PAINT

The cord was the only area that needed paint. I used small pieces of painter's tape to protect the fixture areas connected to both ends of the cord.

2. WHAT TYPE OF PAINT?

I used what I had at home. I thought that this white paint Sharpie would be the perfect solution for painting this cord because I had used it for many other projects, and I loved the results, but nope, it didn't work here.

This cord is a type of cloth-covered electrical wire with texture. The picture at the lower right shows how the cord looked after I painted it with Sharpie.