I’m not a FAN

Want to know what I think about at O-dark-thirty when I should be sleeping but can’t because there are too many projects that I need to start and finish and I want them all done immediately but know it’ll take years?  Lately I’ve been thinking about ceiling fans.

I’ll just be blunt.  I don’t love ceiling fans.  I think they’re generally … not that attractive.   I’ll remove them from the living areas but we generally have them running at night in the bedrooms during the sweltering summer months.  (Even though the sound of the whooshing blades makes me slightly motion sick.)  It’s just too hot to get rid of them.  What are you gonna’ do?

I’ve been looking for most attractive options.

This is the one I’d buy if I were a gazillionaire!

6000 Candelabra Ceiling Fan

Yeah, you saw that right:  $6000 for a ceiling fan light!  I’m so in LOVE with it though.  To bad I’m not a gazillionaire.  🙁

 

This one is kind of cool.  It’s too industrial/modern for my home but my brain wants to look at it as the beginning to a DIY’d version of that first light.  I know, completely crazy!

 

Better prices DIY base

 

I just don’t know…maybe something like this.  It’s simple,and unobtrusive.

 

Hmmm Fan

 

It’s no Casablanca, but who can afford that thing?

 

What are your thoughts on ceiling fans?  Has anyone ever DIY’d a ceiling fan?  Is that completely crazy?  It’s getting harder and harder for me to discern the “Realistic – Crazy” ideas from the Crazy – Crazy” ones.

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36 Comments

  1. That one’s not bad if you could take all those leafy things off. 🙂

  2. Marcie I actually saw that one when I was in IL shopping with my friend for some lighting. I don’t love it but was thinking maybe I could … you know… kind of turn it into something else. LOL

    Thanks for the link. (No idea why it looks wonky but it worked!)

  3. I am with you. It is not even the look of one so much (the one in our bedroom is pretty nice I guess) but the whooshing noise that drives me crazy! It is just so irritating going around and around and….my husband would love to use it alot here in hot and humid MO but allows me to get my way–sweet, ha? Isn’t that why we have AC?? I think a DYI is not the way to go. Again–I sometimes come up with the craziest ideas and then go “really?” So many other “do-able” things on my list. Besides, do you really walk around with your head up all the time?

  4. Sandra- I hated the ceiling fan in my living room from the time I moved here, but a new one was not in the budget. Late one night I climbed up on a chair and took all the blades off and the ugly glass globes too. I spray painted the blades a dark brown- they were white, and sprayed the globes with a frosted spray. For about $8.00 I had a completely new look. I still would like to replace it but it doesn’t bother me like it used to.
    I’m interested to see what you come up with.

  5. Hmm… my link is showing up a bit wonky, so not sure if you can see it. It is ITEM # 331091 (Allen Roth Eastview Aged Bronze).

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