We have been revamping our house, just a make over really. New paint, new furniture, new drapes, sprucing up the old furnace grates, and putting in new switch plates and outlet covers. We have an glorious old home that we love. It's over 100 years old and it has all the charm and character that an old home has. Ten foot ceilings, 4inch trim on the original hard wood floors, gorgeous crown molding, beautiful molding around all of the 6ft tall windows, built-ins like a china hutch and dressers in the bedrooms, anyway we love it. The light fixtures have been giving us a bit of a hard time though. At some point in time someone replaced every light in the house with the home depot "glass dome with brass trim" special. They are ugly, to say the least. We have been looking and looking at habitat for humanity and volunteers of America and browns building supply but nothing has really fit. We are restoring the house to a point in it more glorious days. Needless to say modern is not what we want and nothing from the 60's - 80's fits either.
Today we stopped by habitat and looked not expecting much since we have been looking for almost a year now. And there it was, a 50's style silver chandelier just the right size for our dining room. Then if that wasn't enough to just be beyond awesome, it was only $25. Even the cheap ones we have looked at were $35 and would require that we put more money into them bring the price to closer to $60. Not this one, it's perfect.
Now I just have to wait for Eric to install it. Then our dining room will officially be done.
One light fixture found, six to go.
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