as much as i love decorating and updating my house...i also have a hard time getting rid of things.
not so much in the hoarding kind of way...more in the sense that even if i don't love something, but it's still good and functional, i have a hard time justifying replacing it...even with something that i would love.
maybe that just means that i'm cheap. :P
i figure that by the time we pay off our house, then i should have things perfectly how i want them, because by then most everything will have fallen apart and needed replacing at one point or another anyhow.
all this to say, i have never been in love with the light fixtures in our house. but they aren't hideous or anything. they just have no personality.
but oh, i dream about things with character and texture.
in our dining room, i've secretly been lusting after something like this...
or this...
but alas. not a priority.
and like i said. the ones now work fine, look decent, and i'm cheap.
but then the other day the husband and i dropped by the local habitat for humanity restore...and i found this...
vintage capiz light!
for $2!! yes, that's right... $2.00!
oh, and did i mention that i have this other problem? of not being able to resist buying super cheap things...whether i need them or not! :P so home with us it went!
so now i have some decisions to make.
i love the shape and vintage white capiz against the dark wall of our dining room...
but is the fixture too small for that room? you can be honest with me now.
(this pic is just for scale...so try to imagine it actually hanging. :P)
it might work in our eat in table too. but it's not quite so dramatic there to me. maybe because of the proximity to the trash can. :P
i can't help but think that the irony of this is that someone probably ripped this light out of their house, and replaced it with something more like what i currently have.
i dunno why, but i love it.
maybe i was born in the wrong era.
not so much in the hoarding kind of way...more in the sense that even if i don't love something, but it's still good and functional, i have a hard time justifying replacing it...even with something that i would love.
maybe that just means that i'm cheap. :P
i figure that by the time we pay off our house, then i should have things perfectly how i want them, because by then most everything will have fallen apart and needed replacing at one point or another anyhow.
all this to say, i have never been in love with the light fixtures in our house. but they aren't hideous or anything. they just have no personality.
but oh, i dream about things with character and texture.
in our dining room, i've secretly been lusting after something like this...
or this...
but alas. not a priority.
and like i said. the ones now work fine, look decent, and i'm cheap.
but then the other day the husband and i dropped by the local habitat for humanity restore...and i found this...
vintage capiz light!
for $2!! yes, that's right... $2.00!
oh, and did i mention that i have this other problem? of not being able to resist buying super cheap things...whether i need them or not! :P so home with us it went!
so now i have some decisions to make.
i love the shape and vintage white capiz against the dark wall of our dining room...
but is the fixture too small for that room? you can be honest with me now.
(this pic is just for scale...so try to imagine it actually hanging. :P)
it might work in our eat in table too. but it's not quite so dramatic there to me. maybe because of the proximity to the trash can. :P
i can't help but think that the irony of this is that someone probably ripped this light out of their house, and replaced it with something more like what i currently have.
i dunno why, but i love it.
maybe i was born in the wrong era.
Well I must say that I love the second light that you showed that you want I kind of like the first one for something else besides dinning room, now the light you for 2.00 I so love that one and it would look great in the dinning room, as for the eating table ehh it would not be as dramatic their that is just my option on that. You are probably right the people that had that light before you might have taken it out to get what you having as lighting in your house now. I love good bargains as well that was great buy and you are not cheap!
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