When we moved in, the house came with a (nothing wrong with it) nice but boring (brass neo-Georgian) chandelier in the dining room. I hung things off it from time to time, to make myself like it more, but when a friend emailed me the do-it-yourself plans for a fetching modern deconstructo fixture by Lindsey Adelman, I became obsessed. I kept thinking about it. I sent it to my husband. I haunted the website and coveted the fittings.
The finding friend is in the middle of renovating an apartment, and really wanted the fixture for her new living room. So she asked whether my husband would help her make it. She bought all the bits, had them shipped to our house, and arrived this morning with (fresh, warm, NYC) bagels and the two of them set to work.
She went home happy, chandelier in hand, and I think we might should start a cottage industry. Anyone need a chandelier?
20 February 2012
Cottage Industry
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Oh, that's cool!
It's very you!
okay that is awesome!
So, was he working on it in the basement the whole time?
So that's what you were doing! I can't thank you (collective) enough, I absolutely love it. When I asked if he would help, how luck am I that you all understood that meant: I would bring the warm NYC bagels.
When we dropped it off at the apartment, we ran into the electrician and he was truly impressed! It's sitting on the floor waiting to be hung.
I love it!
Awesome. Totally awesome.
Love it!!! Yes!!
Your husband is cool.
I love it. LOVE it. I do think you could cottage industry it, too (mostly just wanted to use "cottage industry" as a verb there)...but many folks would love this in their homes. Maybe you can set up a booth and sell them at festivals!!!!!!!!! Because what makes chandeliers more appealing than displaying them out of doors, where there are no ceilings or sense of scale?
It is time to chuck your real jobs and start doing these.
If I would ever buy a chandelier--which I wouldn't, because I have relatively low ceilings and am a relatively tall person--it would be one like that.
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