The Big Bang Theory chandelier

It’s taken ten years, but FINALLY we’ve replaced all the ugly light fixtures in our house – YAY! The Hollywood lights in the bathrooms were some of the first ones to go. Easy enough, they’re not too high up on the wall, just a step or two up a ladder to reach them. Unlike the chandelier in the entry, which has a vaulted ceiling about 14 feet high.

I’ve been wanting to replace this chandelier pretty much since we moved into our house 10 years ago, but convincing hubby to take it down wasn’t the easiest thing to do.

A couple of weeks ago, Bellacor had a sale and the chandelier that I really wanted was too good a deal to pass up, so I bought it :-) Seeing as the huge box it came in took up half the entry, he had no choice about hanging it ASAP ;-)

Hubby came up with a creative buy scary way to reach the ceiling… Eeek! My poor dining table!

     

So onto the dining table and up the ladder hubby went…

And down came the brass & plastic-trying-to-be-crystal chandelier. YAY!

The canopy that came with the new chandelier was too big to fit on that little build-out on the ceiling where the chandelier hangs from. So, I took the old brass canopy, sanded it, and sprayed it with a combination of silver & cold paint that I already had.

Half an hour later, the canopy was dry and it was time to hang the new chandelier… it’s the Solaris in Olde Silver, and I love it!

Ahhhh, soooooooooooo much better than the old chandelier! Hubby says he doesn’t like it, so I’m trying to convince him that it looks like a Big Bang Theory atom. Kinda, sorta, yes?

So that’s the latest makeover in our house. I’m linking up to Metamorphosis Monday at Between Naps on the Porch – head on over to check out this week’s other makeovers.

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