The Chandelier Blog

Net Kids Wear:

This elegant one of a kind chandelier will look beautiful in your child’s room or in any room of your house.

Each chandelier is custom made and painted especially for you.

The Getty:

A hot air balloon inspired the design of this fanciful chandelier with a blue lacquered globe strewn with gold stars above a glass bowl.

The 12 signs of the zodiac wrap around the globe on a gilt bronze band.

The maker, Gérard-Jean Galle, fitted the bowl with a plug and explained that it could hold water and small goldfish, “whose continuous movement amuses the eye most agreeably.” When he exhibited the chandelier in 1819, he described it as a lustre à poisson (fish chandelier).

Dutch By Design:

Wonderfully boho and dramatic, this gorgeous chandelier will instantly add oomph to your interior.

Max 25 watt includes 6 bulbs.

Please note that you need the minimum clearance from the ceiling is 75 cm, the chain can be shorted to this length.

However, the total length of the chandelier is 125 cm so from the top of bottom of the beads.

Design Milk:

This chandelier from Chiasso reminds me of a combination of the DNA and Sputnik chandeliers.

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The Buffalo News:

That lovely chandelier hanging over your dining room table could also wind up hanging over your closing.

In a real estate transaction, chandeliers are generally considered “fixtures,” a category that covers anything attached to a building, such as the plumbing. They are included in the sale of a house.

Anything that isn’t affixed, such as furniture and draperies, is “chattel,” or personal property, and doesn’t convey. The difference between the 2 is a common point of confusion in a sale. “It really is a peculiar area of the law, and you want to be careful as a buyer or a seller,” said Barrett Kime, a lawyer with the Washington office of DeConcini, McDonald’s, Yetwin and Lacy.

It’s also an area in which real estate agents must be sure they understand their client’s intentions. Bill Brozoski, an agent in Long & Foster’s Roland Park office in Baltimore, had clients who inadvertently included in the sales listing a chandelier that they had received as a wedding gift. When the house sold, the chandelier transferred, too, but the sellers had already moved it with them cross-country. At settlement, the buyer wanted thousands of dollars in cash to compensate for the missing light fixture.

Brozoski said he and his clients learned their lesson the hard way. “It doesn’t matter if it was Grandma’s chandelier. If it wasn’t tagged as not part of the sale or removed and capped, then that buyer is entitled to it,” he said.

Appliances are another common point of misunderstanding. Is a washing machine a fixture? How about a stove?

Find out more.

Home Improvement:

Lighting is one of those home improvement projects that everyone loves to do.

Change that old chandelier to a fancy new one, or that small lighting fixture to a larger one that adds more light in the room. And one of the most popular ones, change that small light to a nice new ceiling fan.

These are all great improvements to your home and relativity easy to do yourself, but whether you decide to do it yourself or hire an electrical contractor to do the work there are some things you need to consider before you go out and buy those new lighting fixtures.

The first thing you need to consider is the power requirements of the new fixture. If you are changing an old fixture with only one light bulb to one with two light bulbs, this will most likely not be a problem. But if it is a larger fixture or a chandelier you will need to take this into account.

You can go about this by finding out what is on the existing circuit that you intend to change the fixture on. Go to your main electrical panel and turn off the breakers until you find out which circuit the fixture is on. Next… read full article.

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With Sparkle & Bright Cleaner your chandelier will be shinning like never before.

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This Next:

The Murano glass-tipped arms of Virgins 6-LT from Lightology capture the curvaceous essence of Art Nouveau.

Perhaps the chandelier’s whiplash-like movement owes something to founder Greg Kay’s start in the business, lighting roller discos.

Even switched off, the piece shines with a beautifully hand-waxed finish.

Deseret News:

For those wondering where the glass chandelier that hung in the former ZCMI downtown store will wind up, all over town is the answer.

Macy’s, the new owner of the store, has donated 1,500 pieces from the dismantled chandelier to charitable organizations, including the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, the American Heart Association, the American Cancer Society and others. The chandelier was created exclusively in 1975 for the new ZCMI store. Macy’s bought the ZCMI stores several years ago.

The downtown ZCMI Center is being leveled as part of the City Creek Development Project expected to take four years. Macy’s will open a new store in the project.

Many of the receiving organizations are incorporating the square and rectangular chandelier pieces into event fund-raisers. The American Heart Association will auction off pieces at its upcoming black-tie gala event June 9.

McDonald’s is looking more like a high-class cafe.

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McDonald’s is changing. The chain’s stores no longer look like the old fast food joints we’ve grown accustomed to. Instead, they’re looking more high-class.

You’ll now find chandeliers, flat screen televisions… You’ll also find plasma televisions in the bathrooms…

Photo by Rachel1285.