What a good guy. Here’s my new green chandelier, painstakingly painted by my husband. (Those are not my man- hands.) My only involvement was in art direction. Make it green. With green crystals too. And yellow crystals mixed in. And put these vintage brooches on there to boot.
I would have done it myself, but when the spouse is in a let’s-finish-this-room-up-right-now mood, who wouldn’t hand the paint over and say, "Go for it!"
Oooh! I am loving that funky chandelier! Really spring-y looking and so bright. I love all the little doo-dads that have been added on.
How FUN! I just love color and mixing old and new. I love your inspirations. It is things like this that can just lift your mood. I mean how can you be sad when you walk in a room and see such a cheerful sight? You go girl!
I love that Isaac wants to do this – it looks great!
That green is fantastic. How great to do something fun like painting a chandelier. I bet your house is just amazing!
Its very green, thats how green-and sooo cute!
xo,AM
This is sooooOOOO gorgeous and DIFFERENT! I love the yellow flower which is a great accent to the chandelier!
looks like your studio is really comming along!
that so pretty!! love the green color!
OOOOHHH my goodness Heather-I LOVE this. I have a thing for green-I dedicate posts to it LOL. GoRgEoUs!
So lovely! It’s making me feel all day dreamy!
awesome. The green is almost the same colour as my kitchen
Hi! i love to come and read your blog! i really like all the things you show us…by the way, i will try to copy your pig hat, we’re living now in China and this new year is going to be the pig year so this will be great for the kids at school! I hope i can make it!
Thanks for the inspiration!
wow! this is beautiful!
My favorite color! You’ve got great taste 🙂
Lovely limey green!! I love your green chandelier!!
i love that color! like spring! love the Seinfeld reference! made me laugh 🙂
I can not wait to see the completed room! Really, your taste is so fun, refreshing, and inspiring. 🙂
I need photography lessons! Your photos are amazing, not to mention their content. I love the shade of green you chose. Brave and perfect!!
Can you send your husband on to Richmond next?
He can finally finish up my apartment which I started decorating a year ago. I can trade with these great chocolate brownie/cookies that I make. Thank you so much.
By the way, have you ever thought about doing a tutorial on how you take such incredible pictures? I’m sure it would be greatly appreciated in the craft blogsphere. Please think about it.
…fantastic and gorgeous and fantastic and gorgeous!!
I’m a little late in finding you, but what beautiful things and what a beautiful family.
Now that is a GREAT CRISPY GREEN! YUM! LOVE IT!
gorgeous, delicious photo. i’ve never had the urge to eat a chandelier…until now.
My first thought on this post was “How green…? INCREDIBLY green!”. It’s so gorgeous. Green is my most favourite colour.
ooh, citrus-y. how fresh and bright and sunny! i love it. it reminds me of the Brady Bunch (in a good way!).
I have to have a chandelier in my sewing room now! Joey says it won’t give me enough light. Silly man! Who said anything about it needing to light anything, I just want to look at it all day!
Splendid!
That is so cool!
As I saw your chandlier, my first thougt was: WOW…
I really love it, it would perfectly fit to our living room 😉 so, please tell me, if you don’t need it anymore.
oh wow – how divine is that!
That is one of the coolest chandeliers I’ve seen in a long time! I love the color and the addition of the crystals and brooches! Awesome! What a great hubby to do this together with you!
wooooooooow!
I looooooooooooooove it! nice colour and everything else! I want one for myself!
bye, manela
completely fabulous. what a stunning colour and a nice man!
I love the chandelier! Such beautiful spring colors!
Clone.
That.
Man.
Yup, I know that “mood”
I just get out of his way and enjoy!
I love the chandelier.
Wow…I’m inspired!
Love the chandelier Heather! When do we get to see the completed room – I can’t wait!
Ok, I totally have to delurk…
Wow! That chandelier is so fun! I love everything about it, and mostly the face that it looks like a pretty daisy plant.
I love reading your blog and your great sense of color…Your pictures are gorgeous too…I wish I knew how to get depth of field like yours on my digital.
Keep up the creativity :o)
I LOVE how you embrace color and use it so inspirationally! Gorgeous,deliciously fun chandy!
xo,
Kim
I love the color – so unexpected!
Oh my, it’s like a big breath of fresh Springtime hanging in the air to remind us that all things become new again. How wonderfully refreshing and fun.
oh girl, that is amazing!
you have no idea how much it makes me happy on such a dreary day 🙂
Ooooooooh dear.
I have one of those vintage chandeliers with the flowers already on them…and it’s been painted white and black and brown and bronze and multicolor and verdigris over the years, since I bought it for $40 bucks in a junk store (which was REALLY pricey for me twelve years ago!). It’s a prop I use in displays or seminars, as well as in my own home. (But right now it’s in the garage, sad to say)
And now, dear Heather, I think I simply MUST paint it my fave chartreuse and hang it in my office as I get the major re-do underway. After seeing yours, I just cannot imagine not having mine in my office to enjoy every day!
Thank you so much for the inspiration!!!
That is just beautiful! You are one lucky girl to have your husband paint accessories for your studio! But I bet you knew that already! 😉
oh how fabulous!!! It is brilliant!
I’m not quite sure I could get away with this, but I’m so glad you did for the rest of us 😀
Seriously… It’s dreamy.
xoxo,
Jenna Lou
WOW. WOW. WOW!!! Love that colour
can you tell us what kind of paint you used? this is [again!!] such a great idea for reusing what you might already have.
WOW is all I can say..LOL
Lovely!!!
Wow!! That is quite a showstopper of a chandelier!! I love the vibrancy and that you painted a chandelier green. Most people I know wouldn’t think that would work, but I say light fixtures can be just as colorful as anything else. lol. 😀
I wouldnt leave my studio if it looked like yours! :o)
What a blessing.
Zowie!!! Love that bright shock of green and yellow! That’ll cheer up a room… fast!
LOVELY!
smiles.
I love it!!!!
It looks gorgeous Heather. Can’t wait to see photos of the whole room…or are you just going to keep teasing us?
Love it! Love the colour, love the entire package. I think your husband is a keeper. 🙂
Thanks for the inspiration.
Lovely, just lovely!! Any chance you and the handy hubby will be vacationing in Utah when I’m finishing up my new studio?! 😀
Green is so beautiful. I love it, so envious. I wish I had a studio with a green chandelier. Reminds me of the book, “Fancy Nancy.” Chartreuse is a fancy word for green! 🙂
I just love love love the chandelier!
perfect.
sometimes photos do not do items “justice”. your photos sell your ideas. they are fantastic.
Absolutely gorgeous….. love the colour.
I love love love the green! I had a bedroom in an college apartment that color and that’s why I moved in!
Wow, BEAUTIFUL! I’ll have to show it to my hubby to give him a hint 🙂
Nerissa
love…it. love.
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Hey, I have that chandelier, sadly still in its original black 🙁 Looks great in green, thanks for sharing!
Oh my god Heather, I want your husband and your house. That is the most devine chandelier I ever saw. Off now to harass my husband about the state of my disgraceful sewing room 🙂
I would have thought after 67 comments someone would have said it already… but since no one has, let me:
I’m GREEN with envy. Your chandelier, husband, and husband’s photography are simply divine. 😀
Your blog makes me happy – and inspired! Thanks for sharing your wonderful photos and stories.
LOVE it! I see chandeliers in antique stores and am always tempted by a little leary of rewiring. Hmm…may need to rethink my fear and just go for it!
Beautiful! Now we’ll need a picture of the entire room so we can get the full effect! 🙂
I love that the green flower crystals look like little slices of lime.
Beautiful. It’s always great to have some hubby’s help. It shows how much they love what we do and enjoys our creations with us. Lovely green, I can see the blurry background looks nice…pink wall(?), ribbons,fabrics…pretty.
Wow I’m flattered to be so wanted. Unfortunately I am already taken. I want to clear up one thing for the record though, Heather does 98% of her own photography. I’m way too busy with my own business to take the photos for her blog. Teach a woman to fish and all that. Heather has a great eye and learns fast and uses simple lighting and camera settups. She does use my gear, but she’s the one behind the camera.
Once in a while I do find the time to paint something, but Heather’s a plenty good photographer to take care of her own needs in that dept.
Isaac
Love, love, love it! Looks kind of like something you’d see in an Urban Outfitters catalog. Great job, hubby!
Oops, I stand corrected… Your chandelier, your husband, and YOUR photography are simply divine! 😉
It is all very, very lovely. Thank you for sharing the inspiration!
Brilliant. Love it.
can we hire him? love it!
Oh my gosh! Is that from Lowe’s? I just bought that chandelier for my bathroom. I plan on doing it in pink and green and figured I wouldn’t find a light fixture to match. I didn’t even think to paint it! How did he get the crystals green? Did you buy them and replace them? Beautiful!!!
Michaels sells glass paint which is pretty easy to use. Just paint the beads and let them dry for 24 hours, then bake in a 350 oven for 30 minutes to harden.
Funky victorian! I love it!
That is amazing! Awesome job!
Just wanted to pop in and say ‘hello’ and that I recently discovered your blog and enjoy it very much. I never would’ve thought to paint a chandelier green but it looks great … and I think I have that very same yellow brooch! Or at least something quite similar.
The first picture is definitively the best I’ve ever seen about a chandelier.
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Seriously fab. I am proud to share your name.
I want to paint some colored dots on glass stemware.
Should I get that glass paint from Michaels that Isaac mentioned? And should I then let it dry for 24 hours and bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes? Like he did the crystals?
Thank you sooooo much for the inspiration!
linda from tempe az
I love, love, love this chandelier! The green is a great color and I really like the green and yellow crystals. Absolutely gorgeous!
Is that chandelier from Lowes? I saw one similar to yours at Lowes~ it was black. I came very close to buying it and giving it a makeover~ I think I will now! The green is so FRESH! Tina
Someone directed me over here to check out your chandelier because I just found one on the side of the road and am vacillating about what to do with it. Yours is completely and totally awesome!
I love that!
(from a different Kirsten)
Hi Isaac and Heather! I was wondering what kind of paint you used (spray? acrylic? oil based?) and also how did you paint the cord? You didn’t paint the ground wire right? Just asking cause I’m working on the same project, and remembered you’d done one and thought I should ask the experts. Thanks tons!
Wonderful design, would brighten up any room!
Hello:
My wife and I are designers and have an antique chandelier we want to paint lime green for a show home. What do you use to paint the crystals? Do you sell the paint? If so, does it come in spray form?
Thanks
Tony
question….i know this is an old post. what kind of paint did he use for the actual chandelier and the crystals?? i would so appreciate the response! happy new year!!
Wow! This is soooo gorgeous!!!!! I am new here and will definitely be coming back!
Well, it’s different. Who am I kidding? It’s stylish! Give it a light colored room, and it will be the perfect centerpiece. I love the floral accent. it’s not overdone, and just right to make its presence known.