Have you fallen for lanterns yet?
Well, I definitely have and this lantern story actually ends over here with CSN Lighting, an online site that carries table lamps, outdoor lamps, and all sorts of lighting. I’ve browsed over there before and they have a vast assortment of lighting at pretty reasonable prices. Not my yardsale prices, of course, but reasonable nonetheless. 🙂
One of my friends in the design blog world, Lauren, with Pure Style Home, shared a beautiful hanging lantern that she installed over her dining table and another one in a nearby spot in her home. If you haven’t visited Lauren, you must go over and take a peek. She’s a young interior designer and mom in Virginia, with fantastic taste and the cutest house that she is fixing up on a budget. I love her style! 
Oh, my goodness is that a beautiful lantern. I fell in love with it! I had to have it.
And this one is a little smaller, but the same lantern, looking equally as good in this spot.
It came from that online site, CSN Lighting and after drooling over it for a few weeks, I’m getting it! It will soon be mine and this little beauty will now replace the old yardsale fixture I found that hangs over my breakfast table.
This is still a pretty fixture to me, but I’m just in love with the lantern style and have wanted one for this space for awhile.
Besides, my hubby never liked those dingleberries that hang off it. 🙂 His words to be exact.
At $20, my yardsale fixture fit the bill for the last 3 years and now the new one will be the finale. I’ll be selling the old one at my yardsale coming up soon.
Last year, blog buddy, Joni with Cote de Texas, did a whole post about her lantern love too. Reading all about these lanterns really made me yearn for one too. They are just so classic and traditional, but modern at the same time. Now my wish comes true!
Of course, I’ll share all the details with you as the changes all happen and I even have a fun surprise that you will not won’t to miss coming up later in September.
How about you? Have you fallen for lanterns too?
Oh Yes! I have been eying them also. I have a fan over my kitchen table (was with the house when we bought it) and would love to swap it out. That should be put on my list when the kitchen gets started!
Yes! I’ll take one of each, please!
Sue
Rhoda, I see you and I have the same taste. I was torn between that lantern that you are getting a the chandy that I decided on over my breakfast table. I loved both and then ordered the chandy instead. I can’t wait to see your new lantern hanging. They ship really fast so you should have it really quickly.
Dingleberries…haha!
I love lanterns too. I saw some on clearance at the store the other day, you know decorative lanterns for the table, a shelf or the mantel. Whatever. But they were still too expensive for my thrifty self at $8 and $11 a pop. 😉 I can’t wait to see what your new lantern looks like.
I have several different shapes and sizes too!!
I must say I love lanterns…especially outside in a garden or patio:)
Oh, those are simply gorgeous! I would love one over the kitchen table, or even dining room table 🙂 Jealous!
I ADORE lanterns, but I don’t have a place at this point in time where I could really use one. But, I may need one in the not too far off future, one never knows, so I plan on getting one, one day.
I’m so happy for you, so glad that you get to have one over your table, it will be so perfect there.
Hugs, Cindy S
Yes, I love lanterns! I’m going to get a big one for my living room someday.
Dingleberries?! HA! That sounds like something my husband would say. Too funny! 🙂
Hope you are having a great summer!
Beth.
Awwww Rhoda, I LOVE your yard-sale light over your table!!
I look a lanterns as being outdoor lighting.
But I’m sure I’ll see yours installed…and it will look fabulous….then I’ll have to go get me one……Ah, maannnn…how will I explain this to my husband??? 😀
Your dingleberries are adorable but I can’t wait to see the new lantern in place as well. Sometimes we just get ready for a change – even if we really love it the way it is…
L.
those are beautiful, I see changes in my future. I am having a 40.00 giveaway right now that ends tomorrow for csnstores.com which is where the lantern came from. I really enjoy your website – thanks for the inspiration!
I have told my husband for years that he is a “real trendsetter’. He has collected beautiful lanterns for years and he has MADE some too. We have some real beauties. This year I found 2 oriental looking ones at Home Goods for my front porch and am in LOOOOVE with them. Can’t wait to see YOUR new lantern, Rhoda!!! XO, Pinky
Yes, sadly, I was diagnosed with Lantern Fever a couple years ago. It’s been a struggle but I’m hoping there will be a cure someday.
Loving it!!! So chic, and can’t wait to see it in the others place! I’m loving it with that aqua wall color too!
Cindy
I am completely head over heels in love with lanterns. They have such a charm to them and can go in a varitey of different rooms and with different styles.
I love all the lanterns you featured. They are beautiful. Love & blessings from NC!
I love lanterns as well! I have been all over the CSN website as well as Light Universe and ordered this to go over my kitchen table. I can wait to see yours installed–it will look great in your beautiful kitchen!
I ordered this one:
http://www.lightinguniverse.com/products/view.aspx?family=136994
It arrives today!
Nancy W.
Oh, Nancy, I love that foyer light too! That is so classic and pretty.
Who doesn’t love lanterns?! So many different shapes, colors and sizes to choose from!
Eddie & Jaithan