Let there be light!

Okay, I've lived in my current digs for close to 6 years, and there have been a few things over that course of time that I just never got around to changing.  One of these everlasting eyesores was the nasty brass "chandelier" that had been hanging in the dining room since the Reagan administration.  Well, last weekend I finally found the motivation to stack my ladder on top of my dining table and change that sucker!  Now I can bask in the warm glow of Ikea style and function, while simultaneously illuminating that dark corner that has labored so long under the paltry gloom of 25 watt flame bulbs.  Blech.

Before...

After!