Wimpy Chandelier

[Tumbleweed]

I had a very wimpy chandelier in my dining room. It was your traditional three tiered brass chandelier with, I guess, about 30ish various shaped crystals. It was somewhat pretty but it just looked too small for the room and almost went unnoticed.

There was, however one chandelier that I had fallen in love with at Home Depot and I would gaze at it debating if I should break down and buy it. It was $450 and pretty darn steep for my budget. It had amber crystals rather than clear and it would have been perfect for the color scheme in my dining room. To top it off it had these wonderful amber glass beaded shades that were so striking.

So what did I do? I didn't buy it. LOL Luckily they were selling the glass shades separately so I bought those and they looked great on the wimpy chandelier but something was still missing. It still didn't have the right impact for the size of the room..

My solution was to darken the ugly brass to a darker color and that did the trick. It works in my dining room which is now my favorite place in the house. Maybe a favorite because it is actually one of the rooms that is completely done. Decorated and totally done!

So I guess my thought here is don't just be ready to take out all the lighting for updating when you are remodeling your home. Instead, think of ways to make it work, to enhance it.

(Opps, I edited this because my memory doesn't serve me well, the chandelier is 3 tiered and has 30ish crystals verses the 2 & 20ish I said)

[barb]

So where is the picture of your "new and improved" chandelier? I'd love to see it. ;D

[Tumbleweed]

LOL....I really plan on going to buy a digital camera sometime this week. I have tons of pictures I want to take so I can post them here. It is just too much of a pain and I'll never get it done using an old fashioned camera.

[Nigel]

OK this has nothing to do with your chandelier, my chandelier or any chandelier at all.

I just replaced my first lamp socket. DW had broken a bulb in her lamp at work and then proceeded to destroy the whole socket unit. She brought the lamp home along with a new socket and asked if I could repair it. It took all of 15 minutes~ YAH for me.

[Tumbleweed]

Good for you. I know you can do that but I've never attempted it. I have one overhead light where the screw part of the bulb decided it wanted to remain in the socket. The bulb just came apart and didn't shatter or anything. Stupid thing but I'm too afraid of electrical things to try to get it out - even with the circuit breaker off.

[Tumbleweed]

Sept 12, 2007 10:08:30 GMT -6 barb said:

So where is the picture of your "new and improved" chandelier? I'd love to see it. ;D

And if anyone is wondering, I have pictures in the Photogallery. I know Barb already saw it but thought I'd mention it.

[Nigel]

May 5, 2008 8:32:01 GMT -6 Tumbleweed said:

Stupid thing but I'm too afraid of electrical things to try to get it out - even with the circuit breaker off.

I to have healthy fear of getting Zapped. I have never done this but have read several reliable sources that mentioned using a potato to get a broken bulb out of a light socket (with the current off of course or else you might end up with french fries ~ LoL).

[Tumbleweed]

I've heard to do the potato thing too but nope, not going to try it. I am a conductor of electricity....seriously. I get shocked by everything I touch. My old, old job I used to have to tear into these massive printers to fix stuff and man, I would get zapped no matter what I was doing. This winter I had to avoid touching anyone or touch something metal first because I really zapped them due to all the static electricity I carried. Honestly, it isn't the typical static shock. It is a whopper of a shock. LOL

I think I'll do a google search and see if I can find any info on why some people are conductors of electricity more so than others.

Edit
O.K. I'm already having to edit this and apologies for taking this off-topic but actually I already found some info that says I am actually a crummy conductor of electricity. This makes sense because if I would actually be a "good" conductor the electrons would not build up.

Going to go read more.