if only i had "clap on" lights

today dad came over and worked on my lights by my main door. we put on two switches: one controls the top outlet (that i have my lamp plugged into) and the other turns on and off the outdoor motion-sensor light 

i'm so happy to have actual light switches to flip on when i get home in the dark :)

bye bye open closets

say goodbye to all the open inlets in the unfinished walls...because we are starting to sheetrock all three closets! so of course I had to take one final picture through the wall.

first dad put up the exterior walls...

then we measured inside the closets, fastened the sheetrock, and called it a night!

the real thing

my chandelier arrived early, all in one piece, on the front steps. i was so excited that the next week seemed to take forever. but finally thursday came -- the day chad offered to come over and install it in my dining room.

during the week chad had picked up a converter because the chandelier is shipped from the UK. crazy right? i also bought some circular globe lights (i think the candelabra candle bulbs look creepy) and these spherical ones remind me of giant bubbles. plus, they make the light sparkle.

so after a few minor setbacks -- like the fact that appliances from overseas are opposite from ours, white is hot, instead of black -- chad successfully installed the light.

i love it! and it's even on a dimmer switch, how perfect is that! now i just need a dining room table...

gypsy chandelier

i splurged.

i found this incredible, one-of-a-kind, gypsy chandelier at Urban Outfitters and i just couldn't get it out of my head. so after about two days of going back and forth whether or not i should buy it (and looking online for anything similar or diy), i was unsuccessful. so i bought it, and it's currently traveling through the US (SC, NC, OH and IN) and should get here by friday!

im planning on making my dining room somewhat eclectic. i already have a small bucket of this pinkish/salmony color for one of my walls, which i am thinking of texturing somehow. plus this colorful chandelier. any other ideas of how to make this room more funky?