Let there be light!

Last night, Spouse replaced the shiny gold chandelier in the entryway with a new bronze fixture. As you may have read in yesterday's post, this involved setting up a two-story scaffold. I'm happy to report that no spouses were injured in the hanging of this light!



Here is Spouse on the scaffold taking down the old fixture. I did NOT get on the scaffold. My job was to hand him stuff and take pictures. :-)

The project was supervised by Lily, of course.

After the old fixture was removed, Spouse hung the new one up temporarily so we could figure out how high it should be in relation to the window. This involved several trips out to the street to see how the light looked from outside.

"Okey doke, that looks about right," says Lily.

Once the light was hung at the proper level, we added the amber sconces. The chandelier actually came with big, round white ones which looked like cereal bowls. We bought new ones to match our color scheme.

And here is the new chandelier! I am so happy with it. It fills the space much better and works well with the color scheme. After we take down the scaffold, I'll be sure to post a better picture. Oh, and we still need to get the right kind of light bulbs which will allow us to use the dimmer switch. The light bulbs shown here are just temporary.

Another big project -- DONE! Yippee!