Let there be light!

Or better said, let there be better light over our dining table! These old pendants I bought from the IKEA outlet corner 8 years ago for a few bucks. And they've done their job nicely, but in the meantime everything around them has been upped (new floor, new chairs, new table, even the wall has been replastered and painted). So, you guessed it, they need....




We had a few ideas about what kind of lamps we wanted, most importantly one that would light the table better, cause Mr.Fleur usually builds fantasy game worlds his multi-laptop workstation there. So good lighting is crucial.
I actually forgot to put this on my to-do-list, but this is one of the good things of having a blog: you see potential post ideas everywere and all the time!
Being a spurr of the moment thing, we had to squeeze in time to shop for this, but we got what we wanted anyway at Kwantum. I used to think this store is just for cheap (and rather tacky) decorating stuff, but they've been steadily adding more and more very nice things to their collection. Amongst them a great modular pendant lights. Eventually we didn't go for those, we bought this one instead:




At €99, it was definitely not cheap, but this is a nice piece. It's stainless steel, each pendant is made up of two glass bulbs and it even included 5 (1 extra) halogen lamps and a glove!!!!(so you don't get your fingerprint burned into the lamps). Call me girly, but that glove is really cute (and so small it only fits me).



All I have to do now is to get Mr.Fleur to help me get it up there. Not an easy thing on Saterday afternoon. Maybe I can bribe him with a nice dinner.Oh, right, there's also the small challenge of getting the new pendants centered above the table, which means we have to make an exstention from the current outlet on the ceiling. Right now it's too close to the wall. Maybe this will take a bit longer......
Pictures of Before and After will be posted ASAP!