House Finds -- Drum Shade

I have been on the hunt for a light fixture for the dinning room since before we moved.  In an attempt to once again compromise Chase and I's idea for a chandelier we settled on a drum shade.  I really just wanted a simple white one or a shade with a light pattern.  After going to one too many lighting stores, we were at the point of wanting to open our own store with pretty shades, chandeliers, pendants, etc.  No need to open our own store, I have found the best place in Dallas for lamps and shades of all sizes!!!  ArteriorsToo is amazing!  The have a spot in the Design Center, but for good inexpensive things ArteriorsToo is your spot!  If you live in Dallas - GO THERE!

We found a white drum shade with the most subtle shimmer to it.  Next I was faced with the challenge of how to hang it.  It did not come with a chandelier kit, so it was up to my dad and I to figure this out.  After a trip to Home Depot we thought we had solved out problem.  As you can see by the picture, we were wrong.  My pendant kit did not do it's job.  We're still perplexed with this problem.  This shade may end up on a lamp at this rate!

This shade was too cool to pass up.  It is Japanese newspaper strips woven together.  Very neat!  I don't have a place for it yet, but I'm sure it will find a home as our house comes together.  

House Finds -- Pendants

I have a hard time making decisions, I am way too fickle to make choices on my own!  I then always make the mistake of asking Chase.  His answers are most always not what I wanted to hear : )  He really doesn't have much input on the house, this is his choice.  But when it came to the pendant lights above the bar he really had an opinion -- he wanted Edison bulbs hung without a globe, just a bulb hanging down.  Not at all what I was thinking.  Our compromise, an Edison bulb with a round glass globe.  Now the hunt for the globe, which apparently did not exist!  I looked everywhere!  And finally settled on some from West Elm -- I really like them, but when I get my mind set on something I only want that!