We're in a bit of a holding pattern now until the Major Design Review is officially, officially done...the city won't let me put in any more building-zoning applications until then...super...so...
We Have Lights!!!!
The PO's apparently took all the light fixtures with them when they left...so the selling Realtor came in and installed some super-duper sweet Home Despot $9 Specials!
After much, much, much searching on the interwebs for lights that we liked that didn't cost a zillion dollars (sorry rejuvenation hardware) we went with lights from a company called Quorum International and the collection is called Barcelona....and yes the lights cost more than $9 each.....
Here's the collection of boxes we got via UPS.
Notice how the box in front is totally destroyed! That box also has the most expensive light! Hurray!!!
Now here's the pile of crappy lights that we took down.
Here's a training montage of me trying to figure out how to hang the lights. EVERY SINGLE LIGHT had to be custom mounted. The mounted screws had to be cut much shorter and the central threaded brass rods had to be cut to fit also (with out munging up the threads!)....so, it took a lot longer than I was expecting...what doesn't.
That and hanging lights on 11' ceilings single handedly, was a bit of a challenge.
On To Pretty Pictures Of Our New Lights!!!
The dinning room light!
The dinning room light up close.
There is some disagreement between me and Mrs. MadMadScientist about how high this light should be... I think it should be where it is at like 6' off the floor. Mrs MadMadScientist thinks it should be higher. What do y'all think?
Here's a shot of the new entry light and stair landing light in context.
Now here's a close of shot of the 'birdcage' entry light.
And the landing light.
The second stair way landing we had to do the same light flush mounted as the ceiling is lower.
It's odd but to us when the same light is on a chain it looks older and more authentic.
Continuing on up the stairs to the next landing..ya that's a lot of landings, we put in this sconce.
I was worried that it was going to stick out from the wall too much and be in the way but it looks pretty good in that respect.
Back down in the main entry area we hung another semi-flushmount light. One thing to notice here is that the 10" wide home despot lights can hide a myriad of problems...
Here's the big chandelier half way done.
And here it is all done! Pretty!
One thing that I should know but don't is. This chandelier has 6 40W light bulbs...shouldn't it be as bright as 2 100W bulbs? It sure isn't...in fact its exactly perfectly dim for a party but it's not going to be bright enough to read by or clean by...hmmm...
Another thing we realized AFTER all the lights were up... All these ceiling lights on the main floor NEED ceiling medallions....which means when we do install them I'll have to probably take most of the lights down to install the medallion and then re-install the lights.... Hurray!!!!!!!!!!!!
We also installed the Gargoyle light from Chez 2.0 into the library. One thing that we didn't realize when we installed the light is that when standing on the sidewalk outside the window perfectly frames the light! Like we meant to do it!
Closer up shot.
That's it for now.. next up, Down Spouts!!! How exciting!
Rejuvenation makes good stuff...not cheap but good stuff. All made in America to order by hand. With that said I was a little bit disappointed with the quality of the lights...for what they cost they seem a little flimsy to me...that and the install directions did not match the hardware provided. But, hey, the directions where in actual English, not Chinglish, how often do you see that now a days? 
We'll see if they pass the 'don't annoy your partner while you're reading in bed' test tonight. I have high hopes. 
