Most rentals in Luxembourg City come unfurnished. You're probably thinking to yourself "Well, that's not something to write about". But it is. Because by unfurnished, I mean UNFURNISHED. We were lucky to have kitchen cabinets and a couple of closets. What we didn't have was light fixtures. At first, it wasn't a huge deal because the weather was sunny and there was plenty of natural light. But as soon as fall set in, it was dark. It was gray. Seattle gray. (I guess Amazon likes to maintain headquarters in dreary cities.) So a light shopping we went. And by "we", I mean "I". Dan's version of light shopping is every so often yelling "It's so dark in here. Buy some damn lights already. Just get it done." If it were up to him, he would have gone to Hornbach (Luxembourg's answer to Home Depot) and bought 20 of the same pendant and stuck them in every room.
But I wasn't going to let that happen. I didn't want to look at ugly mismatched lighting for two years. And it gave me an excuse to further explore all the wonderful shopping Europe has to offer. It was a huge project. But somebody had to do it. The great thing about many of the home furnishing stores here is that they are combined with women's clothing departments. Smart. So it would go something like this. Wall sconce for upstairs hallway...shoes for me...dining room pendants....sweater for me...and so on. We needed 4 wall sconces and 12 ceiling lights. I was really missing my more design-savvy friends back in Seattle during this endeavor. But I got it done. Just in time for Dan's birthday. That was one of the items on his birthday wish list. Really. "Light" was actually at the top of his wish list.
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| Terrible iPhone shot of entry hallway lighting... hoping it's enough to entice any would be visitors |
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