Fixing a Broken Capiz Light

I have been watching this light at World Market forever, well not forever but a few years now.  Waiting for a sale or for it to go down in price.  Normally it does not work out and the item is either discontinued or snatched up by someone else.  Not this time.

The hubby and I were at World Market and I noticed the large pendant light had a price tag on it for $69.99.  Knowing that the original price on it $149.99, I was cautiously, but with rabid urgency trying to find one in a box....and couldn't.  Finding an employee I was told that they only had the display in stock but they could order one, so I took a "rain check" and got it ordered.  I must have asked the guy FIVE times if I would be honored the displayed price, worried that they would try to tell me it wouldn't be honored, which he probably thought I was crazy but got it ordered.

I got a call a week later that it was in, and rushed up there, to find that the one they ordered was a different one. BAHHHHH!  After speaking with a manger she said I could take the display.  I again confirmed with her THREE times that I would get the price on the tag attached.  I'm sure she thought I was crazy because my husband kept asking me why I was so persistent about THAT light.  If you know me I'm usually really shy when it comes to standing my ground.  She took it down, brought us up to the register and after coupons and gift cards, we paid $13.00 for it!!! Cha-ching!

Since it was a display there was no box, and I never was more afraid of breaking something in my entire life.

We brought our new "baby" home and got it hooked up with this hardwire kit. 

Can you see the problem that we had with this?  Since it was a display, at one point or another one of the capiz petals broke, leaving the metal frame empty.

 But with a little elbow grease....I mean some parchment paper, a hot glue gun and some scissors you cannot even tell.

I have seen faux capiz lighting made with either plastic milk cartons or parchment paper, so I figured I'd give it a shot to fill in the broken piece.  I cut a piece of parchment paper the size of the metal frame and hot glued it on the side of the frame to the parchment paper.

It blends so well it took the hubby a while to figure out which one was the "broken" one.

 

Although I really loved how things were taking shape, it needed a little more.

So I bought this chandelier cord cover from Etsy and finally have my "ah-hah" feeling!

In Emily fashion I wanted to put it up right away, the hubby not so much.  So while he was sitting comfortably on the couch relaxing after a long day, I hopped up on the chair, and made an attempt to put it on.  Easy installation because it just Velcro's together over the cord.  The hubby was not a fan of his pregnant wife being on a chair, so he jumped in and took care of it.  He's great!

I am so proud of myself for the amount of patience it took for me to wait as long as I did to get this baby!

 

Every time I walk by I can't help but smile :)

Light Up Our Life

In our mission to make this house our home, we are updating some of the lighting around and are loving it so far!

After eyeing up this light at Menards and himming and hawing over it for months, with gift cards and rebates in hand we pulled the trigger and brought this baby home!

 

Installation was easy,  besides the fact that I kept imagining the hubs falling off the ladder.  I just hid in the living room until he was done.  We love it. Enough said.

I have also been OBSESSING about owning a capiz chandelier for the longest time and for once my patience has paid off.  After months and months and months and months of creeping on World Markets website and in store, I found this baby for 50% off and may I add that it was the last one...



We also had to buy this since without it our room would be a little dark:

At first I wasn't completely diggin' it in our bedroom, but looking back I think it was because I was WAY over tired and not thinking straight, but after a nap things were looking better!

 

 

We also changed up the lighting in both of our bathrooms.  Needless to say this light wasn't our style and had to go.

 

 So we changed it out:

The half bath's update included going from this light:

 To this light:

 

 If it looks familiar (maybe?) we ended up going with the same one that we had used in our half bath at our first house.

We still have a few more rooms to find lighting for...The hunt is OFFICIALLY on.

Settling In

The day we moved in was crazy.  Boxes flying, newspaper everywhere, furniture randomly all over the house.  We manage to get our bedroom and the living room the most functional, and over the past few weeks we've been unpacking, putting away and trying, TRYING to get things in order!  We are loving the layout of the house and totally loving how our furniture works with the flow!

While we still have to figure things out, here is where we're at so far!

Our office was red, had a decal on the wall and seemed kind of bland.

And after a little paint and furniture:

When we moved in we had this:

After some paint and getting our things in place we have this:

Painting the soffit made a HUGE difference with making the room look SO much bigger and it feels good to have a starter kitchen that we don't HAVE to completely gut right away!

Here is our dining room before we got our hands on it:

And all we have done is paint, but it seems a lot less "brown".  The crazy thing:  Our dining room is all the same color, no accent wall, that's just how the lighting works in our house.

Here is our living room before we painted and added our furniture:

We have been spending most of our time in this room and after moving things around managed to get it functional.  We love how comfortable this room is now!

Our bathroom.  Here is what we started with:

We have SO many plans for this room but while we figure out our game plan here is our bathroom once we added our little touches to it:

The same goes for the half-bath:

I threw down a bath mat and called it a day. Bam. Done.  At least for now.

I had big plans to get all the wallpaper down and get this room painted in time.

But that didn't happen and now this room is our catch-all room.  We haven't done anything and I just close the door and pretend it looks done inside.  Maybe one of these days I'll have the energy to tackle it.

Our bedroom was kind of bland.  We didn't like the color and even though the curtains worked for the previous owners, they weren't really our style.

 After some painting and some blinds, we did manage to get our room together and love how cozy it is.

I was NOT digging the "blue horse room".  The first thing I peeled off the walls were a bunch of horse decals that were everywhere...

And after a few coats of paint and our attempt to get something kind of set up:

The finished portion of the basement is a hot mess.  Totally looks like a tornado went through but we have plans to figure out what we're keeping, donating and tossing.

Moving on to the hubs' work area in the basement, we pretty much just dumped our boxes and moved on.

 I haven't seen any zombies come out of the crawl space yet, but I'm still on guard...

Right now my sweet fur baby is trying her hardest for me to take her out so I'm off to enjoy the beautiful weather!!