No sewing photos, or quilting photos, or even pretty scenic shots today! I did go for a nice long walk on Saturday morning (didn't shave any time off the route, it was 2 hours 58 minutes) but it was windy and cold and cloudy, so I wasn't moved to take photos. Then we went off to a friends' place for lunch, which lasted seven hours and much very bad playing of pool but I was too busy eating and drinking and bad-pool-playing to take photos. Sunday we went to try and find lights for the big living room and have meatballs at Ikea, so that's not very photogenic either! But I did look for a decent photo of the living room to show the challenge we have. Wooden ceiling, brick walls ....
Those track lights are useless. Four of the six don't work and we don't have a ladder long enough to change the bulbs. Even when they work they don't light the room (and barely light the ceiling) and they look terribly ugly. We want two fairly dramatic pendant lights but not ones that just funnel the light down, because that will make the ceiling very dark. We also want something that suits the 1970s house, without being all shag-pile-retro, and of course we don't want to spend thousands of dollars on designer lighting. Although I did go down a few excellent rabbit holes of posh things. Some of it is absolutely beautiful! But we don't need bespoke.
One thing it made me do was look at the pictures of before we bought the house, when it was dressed for sale. Ooooo, fancy, look at that matching sofa cushions and 'artwork'. Never been so clean since....
It's very open-plan, isn't it? We don't really do open-plan here, or certainly not as much as this. We need to be able to shut the doors in the winter to keep the heat in.
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