Kitchen pendant lighting--weigh in if you know artsy fartsy people.

[Baitball Blogger]

There is always someone who does this kind of thing on a small scale out West and tries to sell them at crafts stores. That's the kind of price range I'm looking at. I want to hang pendant lighting in my kitchen and I want something eye catching to offset an otherwise black and white theme.

I'm thinking of burgundy colored glass-blown pendants but I haven't find anything spectacular in my price range.

Though, there was some crazy medusa style Chihuly glass for $2400 that made me wonder who has that kind of money.

[2theleft]

1. PM Earth_First...

She had posted somewhere that she started an Etsy shop making light fixtures out of different things! Might see something you like, or who knows, maybe she can turn something you have/like into one.

[Baitball Blogger]

3. Perfect! Thank you.

[Chan790]

2. "crazy medusa style Chihuly glass for $2400"

I grew up with that kind of money. Of course we have that kind of money precisely because we'd never spend that kind of money on "crazy medusa style Chihuly glass".

Seriously, the secret to having big money is that we're so cheap we shop for bread on the day-old rack and clothes at discount stores like Marshalls. I think if my parents were any cheaper, we'd be in trouble. I'm waiting for the day they try to haggle down tolls on the NJ Turnpike. After my mother discovered that you only have to pay taxes on "finished space", she ripped out all the floors and declared to the tax assessor that only 400sqft. of a 5200sqft. house was "finished space."

[Baitball Blogger]

5. Yikes! Do you have a story to tell.

[LiberalAndProud]

19. Did that work?

If we had that kind of property tax adjustment, I'd sure take advantage of it.

[Chan790]

20. No.

I think they settled after back and forth on 1900 sqft. That's the portion of the house that is actually finished (doors, trim, painted walls, heat, electricity) but which she ripped the floors out of. Most of the rest of the house is "mostly-finished" and thus not taxed.

The house actually is mid-construction. What is supposed to be the master suite is currently being used as attic storage-space...with walk-in closets and a random finished bathroom with a hot-tub in it. (They're not finishing it so my 27 year old kid brother will get aggravated and move out because he's tired of living in a half-finished house.)

[eShirl]

4. in your kitchen?

first time you start swinging your Ginsu (tm) knife around, those glass pendants are going to microshatter into your thin-sliced tomatoes

medusa cthulhu?

[Baitball Blogger]

6. After the kitchen rennovation, if we still have money

I will probably continue to buy precut at Publix, so no worries there.

I can't find the website with the pendants, but, they were much smaller than the Chihuly gallery glass:

[surrealAmerican]

7. Wow.

That's totally got the egg-and-sperm thing going on!

Could you maybe make your own pendant lights? Plexiglas is pretty easy to work with, and might be suitable for the purpose.

[Baitball Blogger]

9. I was actually looking for something like the picture below:

http://miradorglass.com/index.php/lighting/pendants/view/productdetails/virtuemart_product_id/30/virtuemart_category_id/1

Ironically, I like it as it is photographed, which shows an asymmetrical light.

Can't afford that kind of money, however, so I'm looking for something crafty that stands out.

The Chihuly caught my eye because we were in Seattle last year.

[PassingFair]

8. These are a few of my favorite things....

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Current kitchen lighting. Found in a basement corner at an estate sale three years ago.

The fact that my husband actually made good on his promise to hang them is the best thing of all!

Love them every time I see them, lit or unlit.

[Baitball Blogger]

10. That's the kind of effect I want.

Where they look good on or off.

[PassingFair]

11. Search google, ebay and etsy, etc ....

under pendant lights
chandeliers
hanging lamps
ceiling fixtures

[Baitball Blogger]

12. etsy is the only one I haven't tried.

I'm off there next.

[PassingFair]

13. Don't forget the estate sales!

Sometimes the lighting has to stay with the house, but sometimes you can buy it.

Stick with ranch style homes for the best in mid-century lighting!

[OriginalGeek]

14. I don;t know much about art

but I think that Chihuly fella is a master. I watched a show about him making glass a few years ago and was fascinated.


Since I may be in the market in the near future I hope your thread gets filled with cool ideas! (Cheaper ones than Chihuly though)

[Baitball Blogger]

16. Even if I had the money I wouldn't purchase a Chihuly because I would be terrified

when it came time to clean it. I still haven't figured out how to remove the dust off my silk ivy.

[antiquie]

18. Upside down in a paper bag with salt.

Shake shake shake.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

15. made from plastic spoons ... interesting effect ...

[Baitball Blogger]

17. That is cool.