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These just in: three Paris Drop chandeliers, small, medium, and “seats 12.”
Small Paris Drop chandelier.
The two smaller chandeliers are toward the back of the shop, on the right.
Medium Paris Drop chandelier.
The largest chandelier is hanging over the front counter.
Large Paris Drop chandelier.
They really are charming. Stop by and see them up close!
We just love these seashell wreaths. Perfect for a foyer, beach house, sun room, or even a powder room.
The table lamp will add a note of drama to any room, too.
Seashell wreaths and a dramatic table lamp.
Add a bit of sparkle and shine to your dressing room with furnishings and finishing items from the Shabby Rose.
Have you noticed these carpet bags in the shop? Big enough to tote everything you need for an afternoon outing.
Carpet bags.
And finally, wouldn’t this chandelier look darling in a little girl’s bedroom? Modern wiring; added crystals and dangles.
Pink crystal chandelier.
Stop by Affordable Chic soon and see what we have to make your space more special!
Walking around the newly reorganized spaces this week, we noticed we have a lot of new table lamps and thought we’d share some of them with you.
This picture shows one of a pair of lamps with clear (dare we say “Duke?”) blue resin crystals and white shades.
Pair of table lamps with blue resin crystals.
Update an end table or shadowy corner with this fashionable lamp with an orange chevron shade!
Table lamp with orange chevron shade.
Stop by Affordable Chic soon to see all of our new things for your home!
Our photographer had trouble with this beautiful table lamp; the image simply doesn’t do justice to the way this lamp glows in softer lighting than we have at Affordable Chic.
Shell table lamp.
By day, it’s a white sculpture. In the evening, it’s a softly glowing globe of seashells and starfish, just what you need in a dull corner or foyer. Put it on a timer for the best effect, so it comes on as the sun starts to set.
Ask one of us to show you what it looks like the next time you’re in the store.
We have an interesting assortment of fine china accessories at Affordable Chic this month. Some we haven’t seen before, so don’t wait if they catch your fancy!
Wouldn’t it be fun to have tea with your granddaughters and their friends and pour from an Easter Bunny teapot?
Easter bunny teapot.
Dining at home? We have a beautiful tiny soup tureen that will hold just enough soup for a two.
Tiny soup tureen.
Finally, a beautiful china birdcage hanging lamp, just the thing for a guest room reading chair, powder room, or dressing table.
China birdcage hanging lamp.
Stop by Affordable Chic the next time you’re on Creedmore Road at Lynn. We’re full of spring things to help you chase dreary winter away.
As exciting as a lightbulb? Until you can’t find the one you need, the one that matches the others or the one that makes your chandelier look like it did in the showroom.
We have a wide range of chandelier-base lightbulbs for all your specialty lighting situations.
Specialty lightbulbs for your chandeliers
The Dowager Duchess at Downtown Abbey can run gas to her chandeliers, and we’ll agree, there’s nothing like a real flame. But she didn’t pay the insurance bills for that lighting, either!
Lamp finials, from Finial Showcase.
Lamp finials, from Finial Showcase.
More finials, and some pulls to mix and match. You see that fan pull every morning when you wake up. Why not make it beautiful?
More finials, in crystal, shell, ceramic, and brass.
Lamp and fan pulls.
And while we’re making slightly silly jokes about lighting, “anybody got a light?” There was so much Art in lighters!
If you know someone having a mortgage burning party, and you’re looking for the perfect mortgage burning party gift, take this crystal cigarette lighter, from Ronco. You don’t want to burn a mortgage with a flickable bic.
Ronco cigarette lighter, now for burning mortgages and other “done with” documents!, in crystal.
Affordable Chic. The perfect gift for every occasion.
The beautiful gilded lily lamp we had in the store for a few weeks went to a new home and we miss it. However, we still have plenty of table lamps, ceiling light fixtures, and chandeliers to shed a little light on your reading material, dinner table, and bedroom.
There’s a charming tiny little table lamp, entirely beaded, in reds and pinks with flowers. (Click on any of the images in the gallery to see a bigger picture.)
If beaded flowers and lampshades aren’t what you want, perhaps a trio of laughing cherubs and a pink silk shade would work?
China base with painted roses; silk shade. Useful in many places around the house.
Lamp with painted roses
Finally, if it’s whole-room illumination that you need, have you seen the two newest ceiling lamps in the shop?
Look at the tiny bird on the top of the bird cage!
Next time you’re at Affordable Chic, make sure to walk once around the shop, looking up. We have a LOT of hanging lamps in the store, with new ones coming in all the time. Hope to see you soon!
This is one of the most striking lamps we’ve seen in the shop in a long time!
Mid-century vintage Holliwood Regency gold leaf Itailian Tole table lamp with five lights. 36″ tall; 22″ wide. The lamp is gilt gold leaf; with brass-plated tulip blossom flower lights.
Some of the original gilding is still bright; other parts are patinated.
Tulip flower table lamp, 36″ tall. Gilt brass.
The lamp has five flowers; one is mostly hidden on the far side of the lamp. The lamp uses small-socket chandelier bulbs; it has an on-off switch on the cord.
We usually think of “chandelier” as something hanging over a dining room table that seats 32, perhaps at Downton Abbey. But chandeliers are made for tiny spaces, too, and we have several in the store right now that fill a niche, rather than a nave.
The first is white metal, five light modern fixture, with clear crystals and drops.
White chandelier
The second is a similar size, with four lights (two bulbs unscrewed to reduce the heat in the store), and milk and turquoise drops, beads, flowers, birds, and all sorts of fanciness. Wouldn’t it be nice to curl up with a good book in your boudoir under the gentle light of this piece of pretty?
Small chandelier with turquoise drops and accents.
Isn’t this lovely? It’s half of a pair; twice as nice. Ribbons and fleurs-de-lys on a lyre; brass candle holders for a pair of tapers.
Wooden Carved Candle Sconce (Pair available)
(Many of our Vance Kitira tapers would complement the colors. Check our stock to find the best complement to your room’s decor.)
Vance Kitira candles, ready to be the perfect hostess gift or part of your own centerpiece. Candlesticks to complement.