Monday! I have started my house projects :)
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I have two hideous brass chandeliers. I bought them long ago in antique stores for perhaps $50 or $60 each for the old house, when I was in my "Traditional Rose Cottage" decorating phase. Everything was sage green and cabbage roses. Oh well. We dragged the chandeliers to the new house and hung them up. As time went on and my taste changed and evolved away from chintz and cabbage roses to a more sleek and modern style, the chandeliers hung mostly ignored in the foyer and over the dining room table.
But now the house is MY house, and I'm going to make some changes. So i painted one chandelier oil-rubbed bronze last week. It is the worst painting job ever, as it dripped all over the damn place. But I really don't care. I would hope that people would be enjoying the company and food while sitting at the dining room table, rather than critiquing my chandelier. Pfft.
Here are the pictures:
Before. I made the shades, but decided not to put shades on the new incarnation.
After
The foyer chandelier hangs from an 18' ceiling about 10' off the ground. I told my friend Jim, who is 6'6", to guess who was going to paint that one :) I was joking, since my friend Lynn has a 12' stepladder, but to my astonishment, Jim said that he'd do it. But I probably will.
What projects do you have on the horizon?
DS starts school tomorrow (WTF?? UGH.) and I have my trainer at 10 am. You know what to do :) Happy Monday, everyone!
Sun Aug 09, 2015 at 10:08 PM PT: I don't know when the hell to schedule these diaries!!!! Dammit.