For this weekend’s before and after, I’ve created a much needed lighting project for my dining room. Lit only be a skylight, this area of my house does not get adequite light…until now. Combining a little electrical know-how, driftwood sourced from the nearby beaches, five HEMMA cord sets from Ikea, and vintage bulbs; my beach house owning fantasies are slowly becoming a reality (without the beach house, unfortch).

Before – the parts