Customize Your IKEA REGNSKUR Pendant Light With A Cute & Easy DIY

Though there are several things to consider prior to their installation, pendant lights are beloved by many homeowners, and for good reason. Available in a wide variety of sizes, styles, and price points, pendant lights add an extra oomph to a home's overall aesthetic while sufficiently diffusing light across various spaces, whether it's your hallway, bedroom, living area, or over your kitchen island. Gaining popularity during the 1920s Art Deco period to the mid-century modern design movement of the '50s, pendant lights have had many iterations over the years, influenced by the subtle curves of Isamu Noguchi's Akari light sculptures or the sleek lines of Danish lighting brand Louis Poulsen's iconic PH lamps.

Taking a more affordable and personalized route, YouTuber Lone Fox presents us with a clever DIY that takes a classic IKEA pendant lamp to new heights. For this hack, you'll need IKEA's REGNSKUR / HEMMA textile pendant lamp ($39.99), a fabric of your choice, and the most basic sewing skills.

The REGNSKUR / HEMMA lamp comes in either an oval or a globe shape, and this DIY works fine with either one. The IKEA pendant lamp comes dismantled, so you can simply remove the textile tube-like lamp covering from the box. Fold a fabric of your choosing in half — Lone Fox uses one yard of printed jersey fabric — and lay the IKEA covering flat against the folded edge. Cut your fabric to create the same shape as the original covering, but with an added allowance of half an inch around each edge.

To make a tube out of your newly-cut fabric, fold it so its back side is facing outward, and secure their edges together with your sewing machine. If you don't have a sewing machine, you can sew them by hand, or use Wrights Iron-On hem tape from Amazon ($5.62) following this no-sew curtain hemming method.

Turn the fabric inside out, with the correct side of your fabric facing outward. The next step is to create a drawstring channel along the top and bottom edges of the tube for the pendant lamp's hardware to pass through, similar to that folded casing that keeps a hoodie's string in place.

Fold the edge of the tube's opening about half an inch toward the wrong side of your fabric and sew along its circumference to create a tunnel, repeating this step for the other end. Take the metal ring from the IKEA lamp kit and shimmy it along the drawstring channel on one end — this will be the lamp's bottom. Then remove the cord from the original IKEA lamp cover and string it through the other drawstring channel you created. Now you're all set to follow the IKEA manual's instructions on how to wrap, tighten, and secure your new fabric cover over the lamp.