Approximately 4 years ago Mrs Browser and I found a driftwood plank on Wells-Next-The-Sea beach and lugged it home to 'do something with it'. Fast-forward 4 years and we've had an extension built on the back of the house and wanted a feature light over the breakfast bar so after a look on th'internet for inspiration came up with this. The lamps (bulbs) are LED filaments of around 4 watts each and are dimmable. Mrs Browser is very happy with it and so am I in the main 
The look was kept rustic-industrial as that's 'the thing' at present with these things, I bought the lampholders, ceiling hooks, bronze-coloured ceiling rose and plaited cotton cord cable from http://www.lampsandlights.co.uk/index.php who stock all sorts of different bits and bobs for making your own lights. The board received two coats of Danish Oil, the first of which it soaked up like blotting paper on Quink, but it's come up looking very nice for a piece of driftwood.
The only bit I'm going to change in the power feed flex down from the white-coloured ceiling rose to the splitter/ceiling rose on the fitting itself, as I cut it too short ands it looks stretched/tight.
The suspension hooks were interesting as they were supplied with antique-look brass screws which weren't long enough to reach through the hook base and plasterboard to the joist. I planed an offcut of oak board I had leftover from another job to the correct thickness to fit inside the hook bases and then holesawed two discs from this. These I drilled and screwed to the joists with three 120mm Screw Tite wood screws (overkill? maybe, but they ain't falling off!
) and then had to pre-drill and pre-screw the holes with a No.10 steel screw to ensure the brass screws wouldn't shear off when tightened (I needed to do this as I tested one pre-drilled hole with a spare woodscrew - one sheared screw later I pre-threaded the holes!). Safe to say they hooks are nice and tight and I could probably hang a hammock of them and be safe 
Comments/constructive criticisms welcomed
The look was kept rustic-industrial as that's 'the thing' at present with these things, I bought the lampholders, ceiling hooks, bronze-coloured ceiling rose and plaited cotton cord cable from http://www.lampsandlights.co.uk/index.php who stock all sorts of different bits and bobs for making your own lights. The board received two coats of Danish Oil, the first of which it soaked up like blotting paper on Quink, but it's come up looking very nice for a piece of driftwood.The only bit I'm going to change in the power feed flex down from the white-coloured ceiling rose to the splitter/ceiling rose on the fitting itself, as I cut it too short ands it looks stretched/tight.
The suspension hooks were interesting as they were supplied with antique-look brass screws which weren't long enough to reach through the hook base and plasterboard to the joist. I planed an offcut of oak board I had leftover from another job to the correct thickness to fit inside the hook bases and then holesawed two discs from this. These I drilled and screwed to the joists with three 120mm Screw Tite wood screws (overkill? maybe, but they ain't falling off!
) and then had to pre-drill and pre-screw the holes with a No.10 steel screw to ensure the brass screws wouldn't shear off when tightened (I needed to do this as I tested one pre-drilled hole with a spare woodscrew - one sheared screw later I pre-threaded the holes!). Safe to say they hooks are nice and tight and I could probably hang a hammock of them and be safe Comments/constructive criticisms welcomed
