Before You Buy a Chandelier
Choosing the Chandelier That is Right for You and Your Room
The traditional locales-- over your dining table and in your foyer or hall-- are still the popular places to hang a chandelier. But anywhere you have the ceiling height to accommodate a chandelier and suppose one would look good is worth considering. Your bedroom, if it has a raised ceiling, might work, for illustration. Chandeliers are available in styles that will fit with nearly any decorating theme from medieval topost-modern.
How Large Should It Be?
A chandelier should be sized in proportion to the room. In a dining room that is 12 bases by 12 bases, for illustration, an 18"to 24"chandelier might be applicable. In an entry hall with a veritably high ceiling and minimum cabinetwork, you might prefer one that is 2 or indeed 3 bases across. Bear in mind that, in general, the height of the chandelier will increase with the room periphery. While the proportions vary by style, a larger periphery chandelier will generally hang down further than a lower periphery one will.
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Will It Need Special Support?
Utmost chandeliers are heavier than other light institutions, and chandeliers with chargers can be particularlyheavy.However, you will need to install a special electrical box, just as you would if you were going to install a ceiling addict, If the chandelier you want weighs further than 15 pounds.
In fact, it's the same box. It'll be a essence box, and it'll have a communication similar as"Rated for Addict Support" stamped inside it. Those boxes are generally rated to hold light institutions that weigh up to 150pounds.However, it'll bear special mounting tackle that should be supplied with it, If your chandelier weighs further than that.
There is one specialcase.However, you may be suitable to use an ordinary electrical box to enclose the electrical connections and a hickey to support your chandelier, If there are gas lighting pipes in your ceiling that are no longer used. The electrical box is slid over the gas pipe and held there with cinch nuts and the hickey itself, which is threaded onto the pips. A threaded electrical nipple-- a concave piece of" each- thread"-- is also squinched into the top of the chandelier and the bottom of the hickey and locked into place with nuts. As with the addict-rated electrical box, this underpinning system should be used for a chandelier that does not weigh further than 150 pounds.
How Far Down Should It Hang?
You want your chandelier to be low enough to give good light but high enough to be out of the way. It means that if you are going to hang it where people will walk under it, the smallest part of it should be no lower than 7'above the bottom. In a altitudinous foyer, it might be 10'or furtheroverhead.However, utmost people find keeping the bottom of the chandelier between 30"and 36"above the table to be a comfortable height, If you are hanging it over your dining table.
What Is It With Chargers on Chandeliers?
Chandeliers was for centuries without chargers. First of all, clear glass was only constructed in the 15th century, and lead clear glass was constructed in 1675. Indeed also, as nice as it might have been to have them in a chandelier, they were simply too expensive until, in the eighteenth century, glassmakers learned to make supereminentcrystal-less extravagantly. That is when the" demitasse chandelier" caught on.
Once they came more affordable, clear chandeliers came popular for two reasons. One is simply that numerous people find the chargers, and a demitasse chandelier, seductive to lookSt. The alternate, more practical, reason is that lead demitasse"sparkles."That is, it scatters light. At the time, the light itself was still produced by candles. Adding chargers to catch and scatter the light made the chandelier a more effective light institution.
Of course, neither lead nor glass is particularly light. A true lead demitasse chandelier is heavier than one without chargers and will bear further support than an ordinary hanging institution would.
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