Before & After: Kitchen Lights

Before:

{too farmhouse-y with the speckled paint and also made a humming noise}

{too modern/80's for our taste)

After:



{lights on}




{ grey & yellow breakfast nook}



{lights off}

 When we moved in a couple of months ago, I had some strong negative feelings about the lighting throughout the house (see this post).  As all new homeowners know, sometimes you just have to live with it and sometimes things you "hate" will end up growing on you (thanks for the advice Abby!).  We ended up deciding to pool our funds to update the kitchen lighting, since that is a room we use most often.  I also felt it was the room most in need of more cohesive lighting for the age of the house.

After some research, we ordered lights from Rejuvenation, Inc. based in Portland.  They were fabulous to work with, and their lights are hand-crafted in the U.S.  I couldn't love the lighting any more, and they have become the showstoppers of our kitchen.  The milk glass is designed to magnify the light from a bulb, so they work just as well in a kitchen as they do in a schoolroom.

p.s.  Thanks for your kind comments this week.  I appreciated the advice some of you gave, as well as hearing from those of you who can relate to being away from friends, family and home.  Sometimes the most important thing is just to know you're not alone in your experience and then to pick yourself up and keep trying, right?

p.p.s  Props to my husband for putting these up in our kitchen :)