Bubble-icious. This apartment is blessed with a creative owner. AT reader, MeggethPixel has completed an awesome DIY project that provides beautiful mood lighting in her dining room. It's a chadelier made of those acrylic Whirlies from CB2.
See more at MeggethPixel's AT slideshow. (Nice work!)
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It looks like those are "clear handblown glass" and not acrylic. They're dirt cheap and so cute!
Those are quite nice. I assume they're glass and not acrylic as they hold a candle flame.
Hi -Meg here :)
MGN - you are right, they seem glass to me too. The circle from which they are suspended IS acrylic however (purchased from our very favorite Canal Plastics!)
Thanks for featuring me again !
Your living room rug (seen via the Flickr slideshow) is gorgeous.
Love the DIY I also checked out your slide show, you have a great place, well done.
such a good idea! i've had one of those since xmas that i had no idea what to do with!!
Would you mind if I asked what that paint color is?
Allie and I just installed a set of these, ourselves, last weekend, and we love them. Though, we used half clear and half mirrored. What a great, cheap way to bring light to an area without a wall box and install a beautiful design element at the same time.
Did you get the idea from Elle Decor's Dining by Design?
I was also curious about the green paint color in the study/workspace?
jchan: the color of the living and dining look very much like the color I used for my bedroom, which is Benjamin Moore's "Jamestown Blue". Always hard to tell under different lighting conditions, but I hope that helps as a start.
Meg, once again you've blown me away. Your chandelier is beautiful.
Gorgeous... like a flight of fireflies.
Love it!
Love the chalkboard walls with the chalked in curtain swags! great fun! :) By the way, what area is this apartment in?
What did you use to hang these? I just bought a few of them from CB2 and I am trying to determine what would be best to use. Thanks.
It does look like this Elle Decor Dining by Design table....
http://decor8.blogspot.com/2007/02/budget-lighting-cb2-whirly-candles.html#links
It's all fine and dandy to be 'inspired' by something we see, but when we pass it off as our our own brilliant creativity, we weave a web of deceit in which we are easily ensnarled, as we all know what eagle eyes and elephant brains we have when we have seen something truly original, and it is only a matter of time before your 'brilliant idea' is credited to the proper person and the facade you created of being someone with an original thought is torn down and you are revealed as the fake you truly are.
Too bad little Missy MeggethPixel couldn't just say she saw this at Dining by Design (or in the Elle magazine coverage of DBD) and was duly inspired to incorporate it into her little cubby hole apartment. At least that would have been a start; I'm sure it would have been too much for her to have said she loved what Barry Rice and Ted Allen did with the Viking display and that she wanted to do her own version of the suspended bubble glass chandelier. Oh well. I can dream of a perfect world, can't I?
Jesus Christ chappie, you're a real dick.
mela - i'm in williamsburg :)
jen2331 - i used 'invisible picture hanging wire' which is really just clear fishing line, its very hard to knot though, so practice a lot before you actually try it on the whirlies (you don't want to pull too tight and break the glass!)
becky, eliza, and chappie - i did not see the dining by design article before doing this.
chappie - i DID see the images on CB2. i never claimed i came up with this idea myself, but i did put it together myself, so i don't know why you are so angry. and really, isn't incorporating beautiful and practical things into our "cubby hole apartments" what apartment therapy is all about?
its not like i contacted apartment therapy and told them to feature my "brilliant idea" that i came up with all on my own. they found my picture on flickr and liked it - so they put it up here. if you think they should have given more credit to the original designers, take it up with them.
you are poisoning a positive and supportive community with your nastiness. maybe you should get your head out of the magazines, take a break from memorizing designer names and actually do something YOURSELF instead of trying to bring down the people who are actually being creative.
>:P on you!