A Little Bit Of Lighting Knowledge Goes A Long Way..

It must be a shock to wait for a chandelier for weeks only to open the box to find something that looks more like a joke from IKEA than the pretty picture you had in your head.  Many people don’t know that often a light fixture will come in pieces, shrink-wrapped onto cardboard flats with directions from non-existent to detailed, numbered and coded.  Of course if you think about it this makes perfect sense… how could they possibly ship a delicate glass light half-way across the world if it were completely assembled without major breakage but this obvious statement is little consolation to the weeping, crestfallen consumer who looks down at the family fortune and thinks woe is me, now i have to hire someone to assemble this thing!  So word to the wise, if you are buying an Italian glass chandelier expect the light to arrive in pcs and either factor into your budget about 3 hours extra for an electrician to put the thing together or if you are taking it on yourself stock up on coffee and patience.  One other word to the wise is don’t hire your neighbor handyman for this job. you will end up paying the same amount of money as if you hire an experienced electrician who has put a few of these babies together before vs. teaching the neighborhood “Joe”.

Charge on though! it’ll be worth the effort. Celebrate Light.