Lighting Upgrade

I can't really explain why I like black lampshades. They somewhat defeat the purpose of having a lamp. Perhaps that's why I like them... I do seem to be a fan of dim lighting... anyway...

Home Depot has the best lighting clearance prices I've ever seen. I don't know if there's any pattern to when the sales occur, but stumbling upon them is always exciting (which has a decent chance of happening, since Steve and I spend so much time at Home Depot). We recently stumbled upon just such a sale and found this:

I thought it was a really cool chandelier, and was actually in our budget, so we brought it home. Steve spliced in a toggle switch and attached a plug. We hooked it all up, turned it on and... nothing.

I was confident in Steve's electrical skills, but we examined the connections he made anyway, and they looked fine. Through testing various wires, we found that the problem originated in the fixture itself. Luckily, it came apart fairly easily.



Steve found the problem (the bundle of "hot" wires from each branch of the chandelier were not connected cleanly to the wire that ran up and out of the fixture) and repaired it.



I absolutely love it. We moved Steve's beloved indoor porch light to another corner of the room, allowing us to get rid of an ugly floor lamp he had brought home from work. One more ugly free floor lamp to get rid of... hopefully we'll stumble on another lighting sale soon.