DIY Kitchen Lighting

A home improvement crafting project: The perfect DIY upgrade for an old and janky kitchen.

Our apartment is pretty janky, and that’s actually being somewhat kind — my understanding is that it was built in the 90s but it feels as if it were a monster from the 70s school of crummy architecture. As such, there are numerous problems with it (not the least being the micro-cracks that appear in the walls every time there’s a small earthquake nearby), but we’ve found ways to make it all work.

Living in our county, one of the most expensive in the world, is not easy, so finding ways to make the situation we have work out as well as it can is important to us. We like a cozy, comfortable, and clean living space, so I’ve done a massive amount of DIY projects over the last couple of years to give us a homey feeling despite all the jank.

Lately, as we do more YouTube videos and more cooking projects, the lack of good kitchen lighting has been a real drag. Of course, we could always buy expensive LED stick-on lights for the kitchen, but why do that when you have an old light cord hanging around for free?

I decided to fix it up nice and easy and solve our problem in one go.

You can read on for a few pictures from my project or just watch the YouTube video I made…