I want to say a big thank you to the Apartment Therapy community! They helped us out with some clarity for our living room light situation. Despite having a very low quality photo, I sent our question over and got plenty of feedback in return. A lot of people felt that the Le Klint 172 would work well while most people thought that we shouldn’t have any pendant lighting at all!! A few people agreed with us about the PH 5 pendant being a good mixture of our table lamps and our dining room pendant.. (I still love it and wish I could use it somewhere.) You can read their comments here, if you want.
So after talking it over with my husband, we feel like we don’t want to clutter the room up with any hanging light fixtures. :*-( Especially since we (temporarily) forgot that we had, ahem, 3 hanging lanterns over the TV armoire. Duh. No more hanging stuff.
Instead, we’re considering the industrial look of this satin nickel track spot light from Ikea. (So much better looking in person, by the way.) It’s the right scale, would be a welcome deviation from the hanging spheres everywhere else, and is a whole lot cheaper than any of the other options. Plus, the spotlights can be angled any which way so as to avoid that yucky downlight effect. That’s not to say that I won’t try to fit the Le Klint light somewhere…. Nursery, anyone?
