The house we bought is 4 bedrooms, 2 ½ baths, and one light fixture. Well, there is a sea of recessed lighting in the addition (family room & master suite), but only one pretty sparkly fixture. It is in our dining room.
It is really a perfectly fine chandelier, just not so much our style, and not exactly in the right place for us... So, we have been looking for a new light for the dining room since we went under contract, in January. The world is FULL of lovely chandeliers, honestly, and about .001% seems suitable for our dining room. Here is the problem: it is not the 1940s. Everything was too big for our relatively itty-bitty vintage room. The fixtures we found that were the right size only had one light blub, generally a 60 watt. Don’t get me wrong; I like low lighting for romantic evening meals as much as the next guy. If only that was the primary function of our dining room. Instead, three times a day it is a magical jam hand factory, where sticky thrives and generally crustiness wages war. We need at least 120 watts of light to fight the battle. Any-who, after buying and returning three fixtures, we did manage to find four somewhat functional options both Skylar and I could sort of agree on.
Clockwise: 1. Himmeli Large Pendant, (really way over the budget) 2. Jug Lamp in Smoke, 3. Cowbell Pendants, 4. Sputnick
And the winner is!
I know. My Photoshop skills are astounding. We special ordered our cowbells, and hopefully we’ll have some proper “after” photos by July. That gives us a deadline to find a way to mount those stray deer atlers to the wall, as well.
