Can they be friends?

Who knew that a large drum shade and a chandelier could be such a good looking pair? Apparently lots of people. When choosing a chandelier for my bathroom I wanted it to be small (because, it's a bathroom), and sparkly. But, the problem comes in with the uncovered bulbs. I thought I was OK with that look until I saw these from Horchow:

Eyes. Hurting. Too. Pretty. Must. Buy. Create. Similiar one. I figure I can toss a white drum shade over my chandelier and call it day(I will make sure to bring you into that party).

What do you think? Too much? Just right?

Buy Buy BUY

Home renovations is a combination of all my favorite things: new stuff, shopping, decorating, and breaking things. Glorious! Anyway... I am putting up two new lights in our dining/living area, instead of the recessed lights we have now. I have spent countless agonizing hours deciding which light to put where, how to set up the space and what will go where. This is what I have come up with:

This part of the space will become our "dining room". I have drawn where the light will go (we are having it moved over and it will not swag) and also added a link to picture of the light we are getting. I give myself and "A" for effort with this drawing, although it looks like a gross spider:



This is the light we hope to put there (I could not paste a picture for some reason): http://www.crateandbarrel.com/family.aspx?c=1240&f=25442


Now, for the other half of the room. This is going to be the "living room" and I will put this light:





Here (this one I get an B for effort and an F for beauty):




The bad news is that both of these lights will be on the same switch unless we really get crazy and re-wire one of them. Perhaps this is an option. Perhaps not. We shall see. Until then I will wait for my lights to come in and clutter up my house. Yippee!