Hanging Lantern Wall

One of my favorite shows on TV is HGTV's Design Star. I love seeing what the designers come up with. One of my favorites this season was Meg (she was the season winner). In one of her tasks she made up a hanging lantern wall. I knew as soon as I saw it I wanted to try it. I wanted mine on a smaller scale. I didn't have the wall space for as big of one as she did. I also didn't want black. I have a lot of dark furniture so I want something not so heavy to off set my dark furniture.

Here's my inspiration, Meg's wall...

I found the lanterns at IKEA for $3.99 each. If you don't have an IKEA near you, I'm sorry. :) That store is the bomb! I was just going to use a piece of plywood that I was going to have Home Depot cut and then I was going to white wash it but as I was walking through the clearance section at IKEA I found this board for $1.99! It's actually a bed rail and it was already painted and pre drilled. Talk about an awesome find!

I found this knob at Anthropologie and a bunch of other knobs I loved but there is no way I was going to pay $12.00 per knob!!

So I decided to make my own out of unfinished knobs (around $1) from Home Depot, scrapbook paper, and Mod Podge.

Turned out pretty good if I do say so myself!

I just measured and screwed in the knobs equally spaced to the board and screwed the board to the wall. I then used twine to hang the lanterns at different heights. Everything else was decorations I already had on hand.

If you missed the post about the bench made from a sofa table (pictured above) here's that link

Adrienne