My boyfriend's house is over a hundred years old and it came with some questionable lighting. To put it nicely there is a different light fixture in each room and they are pretty ugly. Like this one:
and this one:
and this one:
We decided it was time to change some of these fixtures especially in the most used rooms. We happened to go to the Habitat For Humanity Store one weekend and ended up walking away with a pair of matching lights for the dining and living room.
The glass had a finish on it that made it look rustic...well when the boyfriend tried to clean them up this is what the first one ended up looking like:
Whatever the finish had been on the glass was washed away and we were left with white frosted glass with little pieces of the old finish left in certain areas. We will have to figure out what we want to do to remedy the situation, but for now this is what we got! Let me know if there are any good suggestions or ideas out there!
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