How to Make A Dump Truck Light!
A dump truck light!
For one of my design classes, our assignment was to design a light for under $10. At first, I thought, how am I ever going to do this for under $10.00? So I put my creative thinking cap on, searched images on Google, brainstormed with a buddy, and came up with this….
Our youngest son who was 4 at the time loved everything trucks. What 4 year old boy doesn’t love trucks. So I made him this dump truck light for less than $10.00 using a Tonka truck
that I had as a hand-me-down, also hand-me-down DUPLO
. The only thing I needed to buy was the light from Ikea for $6.00 which fit into my $10.00 budget perfectly!
We measured a hole that would fit the light fixture minus the light bulb and marked the spot accordingly and cut it out.
I used a lamp I bought from Ikea for $6.00 Before you cut, make sure the lamp will fit the hole.
I added duplo because of the big colorful sizes.
Put the light in the hole, add the bulb, shade and duplo, and you have yourself a dump truck light.
My son ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT and had it for years until he grew out of it.
Click here to see the post on Ikea Hackers
When he grew out of it, I redid his room in a Sk8Park theme. Click here to see his new room!
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I’m Debi Collinson. Designer. Real Estate Investor. In 2006, I staged my very first home. Staging houses was just starting to become popular. I was very nervous staging my first house, but the sellers liked their newly redesigned home so much that they turned down an offer for full asking price. I went back to design school and have never looked back. Since 2006, I have been staging & styling spaces to make them look like they belong in a magazine page, and buying “fixer uppers” to fix up & either sell for a healthy profit or to rent them out. I’m currently living in my 8th “fixer upper.” Sign up to receive my e-mails of how to make your home stunning, how to sell your house for top dollar AND how to become financially independent one fixer upper at a time!
