Welcome to the 816th Metamorphosis Monday! If you’ve been reading BNOTP for a while, you may remember when I changed out the badly yellowed, plastic candle covers on my dining room chandelier for Lumiere’s beautiful, realistic-looking candle covers.
At that time, I also upgraded the bulbs in my chandelier to these beautiful, silk-wrapped bulbs. I love this look for a chandelier sooo much!
I know it doesn’t look like it in this photo, but when I first moved into the Dollhouse, I honestly thought that the candle covers on the chandelier were missing. The only covers that I could see on the chandelier were very dark and dirty-looking—they looked like dark-brown cardboard covers. I thought I was looking at some type of brown cover that was there to cover the electrical parts of each light. I was doing so many other things in the house right after I moved in, it took me a few weeks to slow down long enough to look more closely at the chandelier. That’s when I realized that the ugly, dark brown things I was seeing were actual plastic candle covers that were a very dark, antique brown. I was kinda relieved to see that there were at least covers in place, even though the chandelier itself would not turn on or work.
After having the chandelier switch replaced by an electrician, I bought all new bulbs for the fixture. I disliked the bare bulbs that were already on the chandelier. The filament and other “stuff” inside each bulb were visible, and the glare when near the chandelier was painful! The replacement bulbs I purchased were 40-watt opaque bulbs. They were an improvement over the bare bulbs since they didn’t create glare, but they turned out to be a lot dimmer than I expected. I thought with 8 arms/lights, 40 watts would be good, but it’s not enough light for the room.
I have now ordered 60-watt, silk-wrapped bulbs for the Dollhouse chandelier. They are my favorite chandelier bulb of all time! I love how they look even when the chandelier is turned off, and they are absolutely beautiful when it’s lit up! I should probably go ahead and order Lumiere candle covers for the Dollhouse chandelier, too. (Silk-wrapped chandelier bulbs are available here: Silk Wrapped Bulbs.)
The other thing I’ve ordered for the Dollhouse kitchen is two bar stools for the eat-in bar. I’ve always liked the saddle-style stools that my daughter-in-law ordered for her kitchen after it was renovated. They are faux leather but you would never know it because they have a beautiful pebbled-leather look. She found her stools at Overstock but I was unable to locate them there now since that was over a year ago.
After a ton of searching online, I think I have finally found stools that are similar to her stools with the pebbled finish. I’ve ordered two and they should be arriving this week. I may order a third one since I’d like to remodel the kitchen one day, and that would include expanding the length of the island/bar. (Bar Stools are available here: Saddle Style Bar Stools.)
Two smallish updates, but every little bit counts, right? lol Slowly moving forward, now I just need the dining table and chairs that I’ve ordered to arrive! Looking forward to all the wonderful Before and Afters linked for this week’s Met Monday! Pssst: Did you know Between Naps On The Porch is on Instagram? You’ll find me on Instagram here: Between Naps On The Porch. Like to know when a new blog post is up? Subscribe for email updates (it’s free) and your e-mail will never be shared. Subscribe for free post updates here: Subscribe.
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I’ve been enjoying your posts on your beautiful new home. As I read about your new counter stools, I wondered if you knew about the Frontgate -Ballard- Grandin Rd Outlet that’s just down the road from Dayton,OH. It’s a treasure trove of all sorts of home furnishings and draperies.
Welcome to the Buckeye State!
Thanks so much, Terri! I didn’t know they had a location nearby. We have one about 30 minutes from my home here in Georgia, but I haven’t visited it in quite a while. I’ll have to check it out. Thanks for letting me know!
Love the stools and the red is perfect. Did you decide to order the round table and chairs for your Georgia home?
Not yet. I may wait until the dining set arrives for the Ohio house, just so I can see it again, then order that one for the Georgia house. I wish it would come back into stock now.
I don’t like seeing the inside of the bulb, either. It is too bright. I love the candle and silk-wrapped bulbs. I need both. The brown candle covers would be a nightmare. Are you sure they were not just dirty?
I think the look the manufacturers of the chandelier were going for was an antique look. The chandelier kinda reminds me of the type you would see in a Colonial Williamsburg home. White candle covers would probably look out of place since the finish on the chandelier is kind of a pewter look. So I think the really dark covers are supposed to make it like like an antique, I guess.
Getting something accomplished every day it seems. So many details to keep in mind; how do you do it! (I have two of those stools as well.)
Thanks, Mia! I hope the stools I ordered are as comfortable as the ones in my DIL’s kitchen. Her’s a super comfortable. The stools I have here in Georgia are cute, but not very comfortable.
Thanks for having us over, Susan. Your chandy looks amazing. I’ve not seen the silk wrapped bulbs before. I imagine the diffused light is beautiful.
It is, really do like how it softens the light and makes the bulbs glow.
Thanks so much for hosting this wonderful party!! I really appreciate the time and effort that goes into it along with visiting all the links!! I hope you are having a great week!!
Hugs,
Deb
Debbie-Dabble Blog
Thanks for joining the party, Deb! I hope your week is off to a great start!
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Susan
NICE WORK!!! franki
Thanks, Franki!
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Sounds like you’ve been busy once again! Your stools look great – I can’t wait to see them in their new natural habitat! I had trouble with my posts both last week and this. I’m going to look into what’s going on, but if you see that I’ve posted twice, or you have to moderate, that’s why! But whatever, I’m happy to get all these great posts in one place! Thanks so much for hosting, as always!
Barbara, thanks for letting me know, I just moderated/approved so it should be showing now.
Thanks! Looking forward to seeing how they look once I get back up there to open them.
Susan, your chandelier is just sparkling! I have a vintage chandelier from my mother, but I can’t seem to get it as crystal clear as it once was. Any cleaning tips you might have?
When I first got my dining room chandelier, I tried to read up on how to clean them and the info I found online said to never use one of those spray cleaners where you place a towel or plastic on the table and then spray the chandelier from above. Supposedly, the cleaner gets all down into the arms of the chandelier when that’s done and can make the arms turn dark inside and look dirty.
So when I clean mine, I just take a damp rag and individually wipe/clean each crystal. It takes a while doing it that way, but I feel like that’s the safest way. I do that about every 6-9 months or whenever I notice it needs it.
Many years ago, I purchased a large, older/vintage chandelier from an antique shop—it’s the one hanging in my bedroom. I noticed the arms looked a little dark in some spots. The lamp guy I took it to, to have the wiring checked said that it could be taken apart and the wiring removed to clean down inside, but that can be expensive to have done since it’s time consuming. I didn’t get that done since my that chandelier didn’t look that bad, but that is an option, I guess.
I think sometimes dust gets down into the arms, too.
I’m probably not much help, but whatever you do, don’t use one of those spray cleaners that tell you to wash it from above and let it drip down on a towel below the chandelier. That’s the method I’ve heard to never do since the cleaner will get down inside the glass arms of a chandelier.