More on light

The other day I posted that I had decided on what sort of light we should have in the barn. Great! I have found a variation on the wheel chandelier idea.

Small ladders are sometimes used as pot racks. Larger ones could be used as lantern holders. I could mix having wheels and ladders, or just having ladders. We'll see what we can find on the farm.

I'm very tempted to get plastic ribbons in various colours and tie in the ladders/wheels too. If I tied them on the wheels on the edge and had the jars inside hanging from the spokes it'd become a really cool lamp/chandelier.

The light at the end of the tunnel

I have been going back and forth about how we're going to light up the barn. I've been thinking about party lights, but to get the desired effect we'd have to get quite many and though we have electricity, it'd be a big job solving the cable issue.

Then there's the crafty mason-jar-in-plank solution.

Pretty, but I'd need to get planks and a lot of rope too. And I'd have to saw all those holes. Quelle nightmare. For real.

However, today I saw the perfect solution. Wheels plus mason jars and any other kind of décor I'd like to add.

I very much doubt that I can find wooden wagon wheels on the farm, but I know that there are metal ones from old machinery with decades of patina. I only need to get some wire for the jars and something to hang the wheels in and we're done. I love simple solutions.