Lanterns Inward The Kitchen {Again}

Ok, together with thus I've never claimed to live on a "real" decorator or designer.  This spider web log is entirely an outlet for me to part what I'm doing inward my ain home.  That beingness said, my dwelling trouble solid is totally my identify to experiment alongside decor, together with I alter things often.  Many times things are done on a case together with error basis.  It helps that I practise a lot of the run myself together with when I acquire the itch to alter I seek out to practise it on a budget, together with if I brand a fault non much to a greater extent than is lost than my fourth dimension together with effort. Sometimes I acquire it right, sometimes I don't... together with I seek out again.  

I intend that's the telephone substitution for anyone making their dwelling trouble solid a identify that they love.  If at initiative off you lot don't succeed, maintain trying.  Don't live on afraid to acknowledge that you lot mightiness possess got made a decorating mistake, movement on, together with start over.

When nosotros did a kitchen refresh almost a twelvemonth together with a one-half ago, I replaced the large lanterns that nosotros had installed over the isle alongside brass lotus bloom pendants.  With the lanterns I learned, only later the fact, that it's non a proficient sentiment to possess got a fixture alongside drinking glass inward it over the stove.  The drinking glass volition acquire greasy/dirty/grimy super fast together with it's non fun or tardily to clean.  See? Trial together with error.  So, I replaced the lanterns alongside the novel pendants.  Honestly, I knew all along that they were likely likewise pocket-size for the space, but I loved them together with didn't care.  I knew they would live on a identify holder until something amend came along, together with at that fourth dimension I would abide by a novel spot for them inward our home.

I continued to possess got a soft spot for the lanterns, though, together with since looking at beautiful photos all twenty-four hr menstruation is role of my "job", I started noticing a trend.  I'm seeing to a greater extent than together with to a greater extent than lantern type fixtures WITHOUT GLASS, together with a lightbulb went off inward my head.  Duh!!! Why didn't I only take the drinking glass from my fixtures?

Once the inspiration struck,  the wheels started spinning fast.  If I was putting the lanterns back, I wanted them to live on a fleck to a greater extent than playful, together with thus I started entertaining the sentiment of ikon them a bold glossy color (shocker, I know).  And although greenish has been my BFF for a while, I wanted to mix inward something new.  I'm genuinely starting to desire to broaden my color palette to a betoken where anything goes.  Green, bluish together with white, dark together with white volition ever live on there, but what if I desire to throw inward some yellow?  I desire my trouble solid to country "Sure!"  Red?  "You bet!"  A splash of hot pinkish somewhere?  "Awesome!"  

I'm certain my neutral loving friends intend I've gone cuckoo... It sounds crazy to only throw whatever color in, but some of my favorite designers together with bloggers practise only that, together with it totally works.  So, my experiment is only beginning.

When deciding on a color for the lanterns, greenish was a possibility but I knew I wanted to branch out.  I considered only almost every color, but really?  Red has ever been ane of my initiative off color loves.  Almost every trouble solid we've lived inward until this ane has had a blood-red color scheme, together with fifty-fifty hither I got my blood-red ready inward my daughter's room. 

I'm such a visual person, I had to run into what they mightiness await like, together with thus I did a real unsmooth mock up... together with I kinda loved it!

My only hesitation was alongside together with thus much kelly greenish approximately my house, I didn't desire it to await similar Christmas twelvemonth round.  However, I intend alongside all of the bluish together with white together with other patterns together with colors around, hopefully everything volition alive happily together without screaming Ho Ho Ho.

Once I decided on the color (one of my favorites, Sunrise Red past times Rustoleum), nosotros providentially had a twenty-four hr menstruation that was warm plenty to spray them, together with my sugariness married adult man hung them the side past times side twenty-four hr menstruation (I was a picayune nervous to tell him of my computer program at initiative off because this would live on the THIRD fourth dimension he's switched those lights out... ;)  It was genuinely a breeze, though.  Without those huge panes of glass, the lanterns were calorie-free every bit a plume (another bonus of removing the glass!).  

Although they're completely dissimilar styles, I also similar how they relate to the vintage crystal chandelier that is inward the breakfast nook.

If you've been approximately for a while, you lot mightiness call back that I originally purchased the lights at the Habitat ReStore, together with gave them a makeover from their master shiny brass finish.  And, nosotros had to reconfigure the lighting inward the ceiling because nosotros originally didn't possess got whatever fixtures over the island.  If you lot occur to click on some of those older posts, I can't believe how much our kitchen has changed.  Here's a picayune progression over our eight years hither (and that initiative off photograph isn't fifty-fifty the master of when nosotros bought the trouble solid alongside all of it's wallpapered together with orangey oak cabinet goodness!).

Now, I possess got a feeling I'm going to need some novel pillows inward the living room.  If you lot give a mouse a cookie...

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