If we owned our place, we would do a proper hard installation. In the not-simple department, Chad was off at Home Depot while I was doing this creating a master plan for installing this light. Took a few hours of tracing, snipping and snapping, but turned out to be a really simple project. I thought I would need to glue the fabric to each fin, but then discovered that just snapping them in place held the fabric securely enough and it was really easy to put together. This involved a lot of tracing and snipping holes through the little holes in each fin that are used to snap to the fixture frame. So, I used the dotted grey fabric from the curtains I made and a coordinating fabric in black to cover about half the total fins on the fixture. In plain white, we thought it looked a little too soft and girly when we bought it, so the plan was to use fabric to create something that coordinated more with our gender neutral nursery prints. The bulk of this light is about 40 thin white ‘fins’ that snap around the frame.

It came completely unassembled, but was actually super easy to snap together. I wanted to do an IKEA hack to this fixture to hang in the corner since we don’t have an overhead light in that room. Back in November we did a big IKEA run for our nursery furniture (crib, dresser) and we also picked up a KNAPPA pendant light. The countdown continues, and so do the updates on nursery projects.

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