Laundry Room Lantern

Hi there!  I didn’t plan on dedicating an entire post to my new lantern, but I was drafting up another post on some of the final touches I’ve put in the laundry room and decided it was worthy of one 🙂

Here is the awesome, builder-grade light that came installed in my laundry room.

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I like to call these “boob lights”.  Sorry if that’s inappropriate, but I despise them, and that’s what they look like.  I think there were about 12 in my house before I started replacing them.

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I’m sure you remember my design board, and in it I included this lantern from Ballard Designs.

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I absolutely love this pendant and couldn’t wait to order it.  Except when it arrived, it was way too big for the space.  Talk about super bummed.

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So I exchanged it for this one in the small antique bronze, which also happens to be from Ballard.  It’s smaller and cheaper.  Win win!

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I started by taking down the “boob light”.  I turned off the power, unscrewed the bowl, and untwisted the 3 wires.  That’s all and it was free to be tossed in the garbage.

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I attached the new fixture with the same 3 wires and capped them with the same 3 wire caps.  [I apologize for the quality of these photos.  They are screen shots of a video so that’s why they’re poor.]

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Screwed in the top plate, and crossed my fingers while I went to turn the power back on.

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And we had light!

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This is the final product.

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What do you think about my light choice for the Laundry Room?  Comment and let me know if you have any questions, I love hearing from you guys!

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