Flea Market Flip Favorites: High Flyin’ Chandelier

I have to say I love a good light fixture. And when filming Flea Market Flip for HGTV, I loved making this one!
Why? Because I got to use a saw-zaw to cut the legs off of a nasty old birdcage. There’s just something special that gets my blood pumping while tearing stuff up with power tools(I blame my inner redneck.)

Birdcage Chandelier. Here's a secret: I hung it in my living room!
Birdcage Chandelier. Here’s a secret: I hung it in my living room!

I’m definitely not saying we were copied, but great minds certainly think alike. Shortly after we made the chandelier, similar fixtures started popping up for a fortune in stores like Restoration Hardware and Pottery Barn.
What did we spend? Probably about $250 between the birdcage, paint, and chandelier. The good thing about elbow grease is that it is totally free.
Not a bad deal to make such a statement!

Our birdcage looked a lot like this when we bought it, but bigger and probably dirtier. This one was at Olde Good Things in West LA for $600 a couple of months ago (after the trend was big- that's why the price is so much higher than what we paid.)
Our birdcage looked a lot like this when we bought it, but bigger and probably dirtier. This one was at Olde Good Things in West LA for $600 a couple of months ago (after the trend was big- that’s why the price is so much higher than what we paid.)
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Published by Alli Cox

I love breathing new life into furniture on its last leg! I went to UC Berkeley for undergrad and am currently a graduate student in the Communication department at Pepperdine University in Malibu, CA. I started getting into collecting vintage things while I was in college at Berkeley. It all started with vintage designer samples, and hunts for "new" things led me to more and more stores that carried vintage crystal and china (loving this stuff is in my DNA-- I'm southern!) Looking for china led me to stores and markets that also carried furniture. As a college student, I couldn't afford ANY vintage pieces that were high quality, so I started buying stuff and fixing it up. How did I learn? Trial and (lots of) error. This isn't my first venture into the blog-o-sphere. After undergrad, I modeled and wrote the blog The Model Who Eats in order to document the foods I loved during my travels and promote a healthy lifestyle. I love rehabbing pieces for the spaces I design. Check me out on Instagram @chair_candy and @RoadsideRehab

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