Margo's Dad Bruce likes to climb on things that are high up. In particular this includes rock walls, roofs, and microwave towers. Lucky for Bruce he has a friend who owns bunches of microwave towers that are out of service and just chillin in rural Kansas and Nebraska. When the price of copper went up this friend asked Bruce and his brother Brian to get all the junk copper off the tower so they could sell it for dolla dolla billz. Bruce is a hoarder and so he decided to keep random pieces of copper for no particular reason other than they look cool and maybe he could use them for something later. Enter Jay.
Jay is also a hoarder and has a deeply secret love of steampunk crap, which he denies vehemently. He and Bruce were in Bruce's basement examining the buried treasure and found the copper hoardings. Jay thought "Oh! I shall take this home to Houston for no particular reason other than they look cool and maybe I can use them for something later." Margo does not stand for such nonsense and so the hoardings quickly became a lamp inspired by this one from Pottern Barn that we couldn't afford.
Jay was goofing around with the pieces of copper and realized he could make them into a base and arm system. Then he found this cool cage, fancy wire, and old-timey light bulb on the eBay. The hardware is from our fav neighborhood Southland Hardware store. I'll show you a pic of the lamp all put together to start!
Jay is also a hoarder and has a deeply secret love of steampunk crap, which he denies vehemently. He and Bruce were in Bruce's basement examining the buried treasure and found the copper hoardings. Jay thought "Oh! I shall take this home to Houston for no particular reason other than they look cool and maybe I can use them for something later." Margo does not stand for such nonsense and so the hoardings quickly became a lamp inspired by this one from Pottern Barn that we couldn't afford.
Jay was goofing around with the pieces of copper and realized he could make them into a base and arm system. Then he found this cool cage, fancy wire, and old-timey light bulb on the eBay. The hardware is from our fav neighborhood Southland Hardware store. I'll show you a pic of the lamp all put together to start!