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Light up my…breakfast table

July 8, 2011 By Shannah Leave a Comment

Sorry for the cheesy title there but I just can’t help but thinking of the “you light up my life” song when I start to write about my lighting debate.  You can blame it on hours of pouring over lighting source websites and catalogs (poor me, right?!).
As you can tell from the title, we are looking to replace the light fixture over our breakfast table and coordinating pendant lights that reside over the island. You can see the all of them in this (not so great) picture:

You can see that they aren’t bad but I am not in love with them either.  The pendant actually need to be raised because they are too low and bang into your head when you are trying to cook.  The globes are really dirty with the frost peeling away too.  Yuck.  I figure if I am going to shop for new pendants that I might as well go ahead and find a new fixture for over the breakfast table too.
We’re replacing the breakfast table for something a little larger and have chosen this one for its great price.  After all, we still have another kid to go through and, if the damage to our current table from Hailey’s younger days is any indication, that poor table is in for a beating!

On to the light contenders…
1) I’m a big fan of the simplicity of this one.  It even has pendants that pretty much look like mini replicas of the big light available.

Home Depot

2) This one is similar but with a square shade instead of a round one.

Home Depot

3) I love the idea of the exposed bulbs in both of these fixtures.

West Elm

4) I also really like the shape of this one.  I can see it over the island and paired with a bell shaped larger fixture for over the table.

Shades of Light

5) Then, there is my all time favorite which I just can’t get my pocket book to agree to.

Acadian Lighting

 What do you think? Like any of those? I’m still on the fence about which to choose but hope to make a selection soon.  My poor forehead can only take so much more abuse from my pendants over the island!

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