They kinda messed with the original curves of the chandelier – ya know? So I gave it one of these faces and we moved on to the next idea: It almost worked, but we didn’t like the idea of the shade’s straight & narrow crossbars being so in your face. The obvious choice was the bottom, since there was a nice little nub for the shade’s ring to slide on to (and the finial could be screwed back in to hold it up). The next step was figuring out how to attach the drum shade, since it wasn’t exactly made for our old brass chandelier. We just reattached the finial to the shorter middle rod (since the extension rod that held the ball up screwed right off) and it was good to go. Here it is minus the ball (aka: with less junk in the trunk). We couldn’t believe it was hollow because we assumed it would be full of wiring or something. Fortunately it just took a few twists of the bottom finial and the whole thing screwed right off (even the long rod that kept the ball part attached). We also decided to eliminate the large ball on the bottom of the chandler since we felt like it would look funny sticking out of the drum shade (“like butt cheeks hanging out of a short skirt” as the wife so eloquently stated). So even though $51 was a lot less than most 24″ drum shades like this $199 version that’s only 20″ wide (yes, ours is a full two feet wide), it never hurts to ask. I’ll point out the dents in a later picture – they’re not bad at all. It was marked as $51, but after my better half sweetly pointed out a couple of subtle dents to the salesperson she was willing to sell it for $39. The best part was that it was miraculously large enough (it had to be at least 24″ wide and it was exactly that). Luckily we had no trouble finding a jumbo shade at our first shopping stop, which is a local favorite of ours ( The Decorating Outlet which we’ve probably mentioned ten million times – it’s also where we found Clara’s capiz chandelier and the shade for the pendant we made in our last office/guest room). So we decided to attempt to “modernize” it a bit by tweaking the silhouette, adding a big white drum shade around it, and bringing in some sophisticated-yet-kinda-unexpected color. See, we already spray painted a brass chandelier like this in our last dining room, so this time we wanted to do a bit more than just add a fresh coat of paint. So even though the chandelier and I weren’t on speaking terms, after a brainstorming phone call with Katie B, Sherry convinced me that we should do our darndest to work with what we have. Just imagine a speech bubble with some expletives in it. Though a more proper re-enactment of my many run-ins with the fixture would look something more like this. Speaking of its “feel.” Over the last nine months I’ve felt it a lot… with my head. Our office was originally our house’s formal dining room, hence the whole formal dining room fixture feel. Patience, grasshopper.Īs a refresher, here’s what was there before (remember to ignore the lack of height due to the too-small frames leaning against the wall instead of proper hanging art and those we-probably-won’t-keep-them lamps on either side of our new desk). But you’ll get a closer look in a minute. We just opted for indigo blue spray paint and added a giant drum shade to our old brass friend. That’s right, we’ve got the blues, but we’re far from sad about our “new” light fixture in the office. Alternate punny post title: The Updated Light Fixture Blues.

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