Chandelier Shuffle

I love, love chandeliers. My favorite ones are dripping with crystals.

When others were taking down beautiful examples and putting up this...

I was collecting other's cast offs. 

I got two nearly identical bronze fixtures for 50 cents each from garage sales.
I put this one over the piano.

This one went up in our two story atrium.

It was pretty good there for a long time until furniture got larger.

As home furnishings got bigger so did chandeliers.
 Our petite 80's fixture just was not cutting it. 

I got this new one for our entry way that was more in proportion to the space and balanced the weight of the new front door.

I love it but my blingy chandelier didn't have a home. It got stuffed into a cabinet and then into a closet loosing crystals with each move. I gathered up as many crystals I could find and put them in my crystal drawer.

I am sure Mr. Bill wanted to throw it out so many times.


When Bekah moved I decided the bronze and crystal chandelier would go much better in her room than the one she had. 
I put it up and cleaned it off. I started adding back the crystals that had fallen off when it was shoved in the closet.

Unbelievably I only lost one crystal in the transition.

I think it goes well with Bekah's bedding.


This was Bekah's old chandelier.

It is an Italian rose tole chandelier. It came out of my step mom's house eons ago. 
It was a wonderful chandelier to take Bekah from pre-schooler to young adult.  
But I really thought it would look better in my shabby white room.
It need a good bit of dusting. 
Compressed air did a great job.

There was no way a rag was going to clean inside those roses.
I think that at one point this chandelier had been painted. I could see bits of pink and blue peeping through the white. I tried stripping it down to the original paint colors but it didn't work. It took the paint and the enamel off. 

Read about my shabby room here.

My only reservation about the transition was this ceiling fan.
I really hate ceiling fans but they are a bit of a necessity here in Texas.


I am going with cute! 

I took down the fan. I didn't know how, so I just started taking pieces off. Be sure to turn off the breaker.

This is one reason I hate ceiling fans. 

The dust on the top of the blade is so hard to clean! 

 

Let me say I am wild about these changes.   

 I have supplied both rooms with fans so our guests can have some moving air. 
I didn't want you to worry that my guests will be uncomfortable in the Texas heat.

Sprinkled with crystals and moving air,

Katie 
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