Trash Beacons

Chad Olds from Christ’s Community Church of the Nazarene in New Albany, IN shared their stunning stage design with us.

From Chad:

This is a simple Edison bulb design that was inspired by other projects on ChurchStageDesignIdeas.com, with our spin.

We mounted rope cafe lights across the platform above our drum cage. We ran everything into an ADJ ED-15 dimmer pack which ran into our lighting system via DMX to have dimming control from our lighting computer in the back.

We also used several 10-, 15-, and 25-foot black extension cords to do the hanging lights, and plug-to-socket adapters to go into the ends of the cords to plug the Edison bulb lights in. The black extension cords ran up to a power strip mounted at our ceiling, which ran down to our dimmer pack.

We also created floor “lamps”, which we created with pallet wood, PVC, plug-socket adapters, Edison bulbs, extension cords, black mesh trash cans, and flat black spray paint.

We cut a wood pallet in half and drilled holes in it the size of the PVC to run the painted PVC through the top boards of the pallet wood. We used C-clamps with two screws from Lowes to secure the PVC to the pallet wood at the base as well.

We ran extension cords (2-prong) down the PVC pipe (we had to trim the end of the cord just a bit to fit in the PVC). Those cords went into power strips which ran to the dimmer.

At the top of the PVC, we mounted black mesh trash cans by cutting an “X”, pushing the tabs out, and using hose clamps that we tightened down over those “tabs” we created in the metal trash can. This secured the trash cans to the top of the PVC well enough for our purposes.

We then attached a plug-socket adapter to the extension cord at the top of the PVC, and put an Edison bulb in to create each of the “lamps”.

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