So, ever since our kitchen was largely completed (trim, touchups, etc, still waiting my tender ministrations, but otherwise); the one thing that’s remained a bit of a… well… it’s just untouched, really, is the ceiling lights.
Two bare compact fluorescents dangle down from our ceiling, hanging on bare pendant lamp holders. Above the table a rather nice 1940’s enamel shade shines light upon our table, but at the end of the room we use the most, it’s somewhat utilitarian. Not for want of looking nor hoping, but this vague notion of some sort of multi-light – hanging on bare wood – using fabric covered cable kind of affair had stuck in my head. I had an idea about what I wanted, but wasn’t able to find anything that particularly fitted the bill. I looked around our local wood recycling place, and still wasn’t able to come up with the things I wanted.
Finally, whilst we were in camping on the shore of a (man made) lake in France, on the beach was a ton of drift wood. Literally, you couldn’t walk on the beach itself by our tent because it was covered in such a depth of drift wood.
After poking around in the piles for a while I came away with two chunks that I felt could hang happily from our ceiling and the idea resolved itself further. Discussing it more with Kathryn it was refined, and refined, and now we’re accruing the bits to make it. I’ve just ordered a small pile of lamp holders (chrome) and cord grips (black) because our local electrical store doesn’t stock chrome BC lamp holders.
I ordered several metres of orange triple core fabric covered cable, it’s sat on the bench with the wood now. I also ordered 50m of ultra thin stainless steel wire. Not because I need 50m, but because that’s what it comes in. I’ve got a length of chrome pole, and chrome fixings to go with it. The whole thing is really quite exiting. The idea of finally having the kitchen finished is also quite exciting, but there’s stil the trim to deal with in here, and a couple of patches of filler on the wall.
Anyhow, when the bits are all here, I’ll pop it together and then you can see the atrocity that leaps from my imagination. Until then, you’ll just have to wait :)
