Crystal Chandelier

[linus69]

For our wedding anniversary we bought a crystal chandelier to replace
the builders fixture that came with the house. After looking at half a dozen lighting stores in NYC, we found one on Ebay being sold by a lighting store in NYC.

cgi.ebay.com/Dining-Room-Chandelier-Light-Lamp-w-Swarovski-Crystals_W0QQitemZ380082868445QQcmdZViewItemQQptZChandeliers?hash=item380082868445&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1205

It is really something to behold, but it was a half a day project, as you had to assemble everything and wire up the 8 candles, basically you build the fixture.

The old fixture



The new one







Paul

[red]

Paul-

A friend of a friend was hanging a Chandelier in his foyer and the "beast" was huge! He had shopped for months and just couldn't bring himself to spent 20K Found almost exact model on line for 8k and spent 2 days hanging the crystals. He was going to hang it with one of those swag (fake metal) hooks when I told him I was leaving cause I didn't want to get brought up on murder charges when it fell and killed someone. He went to a lighting store and brought the proper mounting bracket. Yours is beautiful Just glad I not the one cleaning it! ;D -Ed

[quikduk]

Paul,

That one is really nice. I bet it really adds the final "formal" touch to the dining room. I would like to get a better fixture for our entry and dining table some day. Maybe not a chandelier but something cool looking.

BTW, the last firm I worked at designed 30K - 60K square foot custom homes. When we had a client who wanted some grand chandelier, we had to engineer a steel supporting frame (sometimes heavy timber) within the ceiling and walls that would use an electric winch to lower the chandelier to ground level.

They were usually in the main foyer above the dual semi-circular stairs so this made it easier to clean. A service would come in with a special "tank" and the chandelier would be "dipped" and allowed to "soak" for a period of time. When it was lifted out, it would air dry for an hour or so and then be winched back into place.

Apparently, the solution "scrubbed" the crystals clean and dried spot-free too.

BTW, these chandeliers were typically around $80K to $100K. I wouldn't say money was no object for these people but rather they just had a little more "disposable income" than the rest of us.

Here is an example of one that I had handy.

[linus69]

Thanks Ed and Ken, yes it really does give the formal touch to the dining room. I like the store I got it from too, they are out of Staten Island,NY and sell a lot of lights and crystal. I also like the "make an offer" feature he has on most of his fixture auctions.
He seems willing to take up to 25% off his buy it now prices which are dead low to start with. I shopped hard for a fixture like this in brick and mortar lighting stores and this guy beat anything I could find by about 60% price wise and he has nicer stuff. His Ebay feedback is excellent on over 1400 sales.

stores.ebay.com/JUSTARITELITE

Paul

[linus69]

I bought another 34 crystal prisms for the chandelier from the same outfit that I got it from. They are all what is called French Cut Pendulums.







Paul

[quikduk]

Looks great Paul.

It really helped fill out the fixture...and I bet the DW really likes it too.

[linus69]

Thanks Ken, it`s about maxed out now, I`ve basically run out of room to add any more. The wife was against me altering it at first, but she loves the results now.

Paul