Lighting

This is one of those places where Kyle and I tend to disagree on what to do. I am in favor of keeping many of the original light fixtures that are already in the house. I love the round glass flush mount overhead in the bathroom, and the plate glass fixture in the guest bedroom is too quaint and vintage to replace with some weird ceiling fan monstrosity. But Kyle wants all new. Update update update. So, we are trying to come to some common ground. And we've found it...in some places:

There are two fixtures that we agree, for sure, NEED TO GO!

Ugly Light Fixture #1:
Is the light above the medicine cabinet in the guest bathroom. I snapped the picture before Kyle started to paint the bathroom the other weekend. Just look at that! We are talking bare bulbs people! I do wonder what happened to the rest of the fixture that must have been there originally. Where did the other part of it go?
I've been scouring sites online for inspiration. I love Rejuvenation.
I assume something like Rufus (pictured below) must have been what was there before our sad little light lost it's hood. So, in keep with the period of the house, something like that fits and might look pretty darn cute!
After Rufus, I would really like something a little more midcentury modern as a possibility. The only picture I could grab off the Rejuvenation site is the bronzed version. But here is Donald (hehe. I just love the names they give them too)! Thankfully they offer this light in a nice polished chrome.
These two are my favorites so far. I was reading an issue of Atomic Ranch while in Borders the other day, and while we do not own a ranch, Kyle and I both appreciate that midcentury asthetic. I remember seeing an ad for another retro lighting website, but for the life of me, I can't remember what it was...something about schoolhouse lighting? I will Google of course, but anyone out there know what I am talking about?

Anway, after we settle on something for the bathroom, the mother of all ugly lighting is located in our kitchen. I love our kitchen, I hate our kitchen. I love the ideas I have in my head for the kitchen, I hate the idea of how much it's going to cost us to see those ideas come to fruition...c'e la vie.

But this is about the mother of all ugly lighting, right? Here she is folks.
Ugly Light Fixture #2:
She's round, she's LARGE, and glows super green. She's florescent! And has to go.

I keep trying to find where the line between retro vintage COOL, and retro vintage KITSCHY overkill falls, and I hope and pray I don't fall victim to it. With that said, I do like the idea of trying to keep most of the lighting in the house somewhat period appropriate (except my darling dining room pendant of course). So, good taste be damned, here's one light I was thinking would look rather adorable in the kitchen...that being the dream kitchen in my head.
That is Lombard. Lombard is much. much smaller than what is there now, and with our tiny kitchen I think would just be more appropriate scale wise. I also like the blue band. Altough Rejuvenation seems to offer the same shade with different band colors...there is a light green and also a yellow banded shade that would both work equally as well.

I hope to place the order for at least one light fixture this weekend. Speaking of weekend, I don't have many home improvements planned...I might do some more sewing, or tackle a shelving issue, but we will see.

I think the loungy feeling of the Labor Day weekend is only hitting me now.