Big Lights take Big Budgets!

But you can make it yourself if you have a little budget! My beautiful custom-made first time we have ever tried to make a light - only ended up costing us $88 + $39 for chains + rachet and wire +  a circular cap + $9 for black flat spray paint!
You come in the front door to a wide open area that is open all the way up - 18 feet up!  We have the balcony around this area upstairs that has a walkway across from side to the other and a library (where I am already stashing books that have had no home - or should I say a proper home- for 7 years) - we aren't moved in yet, you know. 

So this area needed a really BIG light.  I had purchased all the lights and fans and bought a small black inexpensive metal light for the middle area - It was only 88$ - and when we came to the time to put it up - it was way to pueny and not right at all for the room.  So we put our heads together - and Carpenter took up lamp making.  We had a grand time all trying to help figure circumference and radius and working the plan for the new BIG light.

The 88$ light has been taken all apart into pieces.

We are having a hard time remembering where the iron ring came from - it seems we have been dragging it around and using it for this or that for a good many years now. Micah retrieved it from its current home in the herbgarden where it was a "Ring-Around-Martha-Washington Asparagus".  Ezra and Micah took the grinder to it and then cleaned it with muratic acid - Micah overcome with fumes from the nasty acid wryly commented "Let it be known to all, that I passed away making momma a chandilier!" It cleaned up nicely after their hard work and Carpenter got to work! [Micah is still alive and well too!]

Carpenter has this beautiful homemade light that graces the center of our home rigged so it can be lowered from the attic by racheting it down or up - makes for simple bulb changes, dusting and I can just envision this all decked in pine boughs in the bleak of winter! I was just about speechless when I saw it hanging and all finished for the first time - it was definitely MADE FOR this house and made WITH LOVE by Carpenter for his family.

How do you like it?