A Dining Room Light Update and Winner!

Happy Friday everybody! What's going on this weekend with you? Lots going on here. If you follow on facebook, you may have seen the post about the chandelier that sold. The movers are coming tonight to pack it up and ship it to its new home in Durham. Yay! Hopefully the buyer will share a picture with us. Now for the new light.

I do love a crystal chandelier, don't get me wrong. It's just that our lifestyle, as of now, is more relaxed. I want our dining room to feel more relaxed too. With that in mind, I have been going through pins of dining rooms that I love and keep going back to lanterns. Drum shades would be my second choice, but we have those in the kitchen to fill that urge. So, here we are with lanterns on the brain.

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I've been beating the bushes to find just the right lantern for our dining room. I have searched through a local lighting source, Butler's, (which by the way, if you are in the Greensboro/Winston Salem area, I highly recommend them) and didn't come up with a thing I liked as much as this from Ballard...

The only downer is that it got horrible reviews. I rely heavily on reviews before I make any purchase. My husband and I decided to take the chance and place the order.

I just can't stop thinking about how pretty it looked hanging in the Southern Living House. To be continued.

By the way, for more great pictures of the Southern Living House, check out this post by my friend Sherry.

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