A New Lighting Fixture for the Family Room

Well hello!!

If you visited me during the summer home tour last week, you probably noticed a new ceiling fixture in this room.

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.

After the built-in unit was completed, the drum light was installed about three years ago. It was a temporary solution because I didn't have the time or money to buy what I wanted. 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! :/

This site, Color Cord, sells the same type of electrical cord in many colors 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.