The Chandelier Blog

This mini led chandelier is very charming.

It can go anywhere in the house.

Wouldn’t you love to have one?

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Puerto Rico Ricardo:

Go rustic with genuine rawhide lamp shades, the easiest way to develop a country or rustic style. Even if your current lamps and furniture are more traditional, create a warm western or southwest atmosphere in any room.

Rawhide replacement lamp shades and table lamp shades will set the tone of your space and bring the warm country or rustic flavor that creates such a comfortable and relaxing atmosphere.

Rawhide chandelier lamp shades can create a natural focal point for your room and draw elements together as the eye finds rawhide table lamp shades and floor lamp shades around the room. Mini lamp shades or clip on lamp shades are also perfect for a candelabra style lamp or wall sconce.

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Chandelier Central:

Sun catchers add sparkle and beauty to any room in your home. Far beyond the paint-n-bake sun catchers of childhood, sun catchers come in a huge variety of styles that dazzle the eye.

The most common window-hanging style bring charm and flair to any room. Choose a color and pattern that complements your decor. Window-hanging sun catchers can be the focal point of a room, or a finishing detail. Whichever you choose, you’ll be delighted with the beauty sun catchers add to your decor.

Wind chime style and dangling sun catchers are also great additions to a room. Hang small crystal sun catchers from the center of a valance, or from a chandelier or lamp to add light and sparkle. Dangling sun catchers are beautiful on patios and sunrooms where they really capture the light. Place a sun catcher in a garden shed window where it can be seen from the outside.

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Curious Expeditions:

A gasp jumps from the lips of a surprised onlooker as their eyes fall on something that seems entirely out of place in this holy environment. One looks closer to examine it to make sure they are not mistaken. They are not. Lighting the frescoed walls of Ružica Church, a small chapel built into the side of Kalemegdan fortress, are two chandeliers made entirely of spent bullet casing, swords, and cannon parts. It is a more fitting decoration than one might realize.

A recent Curious Expeditions trip brought M and I to the Kalemegdan Fortress in Belgrade, Serbia. The Kalemegdan Fortress is as old as Beograd itself. Controlled at various times by the Serbs, Turks, Hungarians, and Austrians, the small dark church tucked in the Fortress’ side has seen a lot of action. The space the church now occupies was used by the Turks as gunpowder storage for over 100 years and it had to be largely rebuilt in 1920 after WWI. Though damaged by bombings there was an upshot to the terrible carnage of The Great War. While fighting alongside England and the US, Serbian soldiers on the Thessaloniki front took the time to put together these two amazing chandeliers.

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Starry Night Lights:

Chandeliers have been used for centuries to light up interior areas. Traditionally, the chandelier was an inventive way to light an entire area with a set of eight to twenty four candles that hung from the ceiling to create an efficient light source.

Although modern electricity allows us to light the inside of our homes in a more convenient and efficient way, chandeliers are still used in entry ways and dining rooms to add a touch of elegance to the decor. Of course these chandeliers now are lit with light bulbs instead of candles but the traditional look of the chandelier is still captured.

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Luxist:

Not a chandelier for a timid room or for a timid decorator, the new Da Vinci LED Crystal Chandelier from Schonbek “puts on a dazzling light show.” And it’s no wonder, since it’s both enormous (available in 3 foot and 5 foot diameters) and is made up of hundreds of Swarovski crystals illuminated by either halogen or LED lights from within.

Chandeliers aren’t what they used to be — or just where they used to be, either.

Star Tribune:

Lighting is having a Liberace moment. Dramatic crystal chandeliers, once reserved for formal spaces such as foyers, dining rooms and, yes, music rooms, are now sparkling all over the house. They’re even making grand appearances above bathtubs and kitchen work islands.

“We’re seeing them in unexpected places — everywhere from small powder rooms to whimsical novelty chandeliers in babies’ rooms,” said Deephaven-based trend consultant Robyn Waters of RWTrend, www.rwtrend.com. “The only place I haven’t seen them, nor would I want to, is the garage. But I’m sure someone is doing it.”

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