Here is a picture of the breakfast nook as it is currently (with the current owners belongings). The chandelier is not really our thing so I had been looking at ideas for what to replace it with or how to make it a little less country when I stumbled across this idea when I was going through the old Daily Danny blog archives.
Here, a metal drum shade is placed over the chandelier. It's punched with holes to let the light shine through. If you have a boring chandelier, you could buy a very sheer drum shade and place it on top to dress it up. Or you can find a vintage shade (with lots of metal ribs around it) and remove the fabric...just exposing the lines to give the illusion of a shade.
I am thinking a fairly sheer white shade of some sort might do the trick, of course I can't go too sheer or my CFL chandelier bulbs will look out of place in the fixture. I am also wondering if I will need to paint the chandelier some other color to make it all work well together. Hopefully finding a drum shade big enough to encase the current fixture won't prove too difficult. I guess only time will tell. We don't move in for nearly 2 months so it will be a while before I can get to all these little projects.
