Chandelier

Can't believe that it's been only a week since we had the help from my parents and brother to move all our 'stuff' upstairs. The two days of hard work paid off, because last Sunday night we had all our boxes and furniture upstairs, and we relaxed in our new sitting room, slept in our new bedroom and were able to eat at our dining room tale with the most amazing chandelier lighting the room.

The chandelier of course being another story. We bought the chandelier about two weeks ago (maybe a little more). The chandelier, 1m30 in diameter, 12 lights, just beautiful when it's dark outside. When the chandelier was delivered to us we stored it in the biggest guestroom on the ground floor, leaving it there for the rest of the week and going down to admire it several times a day. What we hadn't really paid too much attention to, or maybe purposefully ignored because we loved the chandelier from the first minute we saw it, was that with it's 1m30 diameter it might be difficult to get it to the second floor. So Sunday morning arrives, pretty much around this time last week, and we decide it's time to bring out the chandelier and carry it upstairs. Up the staircase outside, to the front door(to the reception), halfway through the front door, and...back outide. There was no way we would get it through the door no matter how we twisted or turned it, but 15 minutes later we were still trying. Eventually we gave up and tried the middle front door but this also without success.
Next attempt, tie it to a rope and pull it up through the window...this being about an hour later, so we have two people outside holding this massive thing over their heads, two people upstairs pulling at the rope trying to lift the chandelier onto the balcony, all the while all passing neighbours watching us trying to manouever this thing inside. Must have been quite a sight, seeing as the next hour and a half we were still all in the same position, twisting, turning, lifting, dropping, bending the chandelier. Blood, sweat, but luckily no tears later, the chandelier made it's way through the window!

And now, to hang it up... Two people holding the ladder with Fré on the ladder. Drilling the hole for the hooks, hanging the hooks, hanging the chain, pulling up the chandlier, and as our new electrician, connecting the electricity. All in all, 4 hours later, the chandlier was in place and working.

Definetely a hard days work, but oh so worth it in the end! Now all that is left is to enjoy it's light and ambiance.