I tell all my clients that lighting and lamps make a very big difference in a home. It is not just because lighting is crucial for practical reasons, lighting also gives your home character. Great light fixtures can make your home look interesting, unique, sophisticated and fun. There are so many options out there, and I cringe every time I see the typical ceiling "boob" light in the most common homes. There are so many options, and it does not have to break the bank.

During my visit in Finland last summer I saw in a magazine the new PS collection from IKEA. Since then I have been trying to find a specific lamp called Maskros, which means dandelion in Swedish or directly translated worm-rose. Well, as sometimes happens, EDMONTON has it in their store but Calgary does not. So I call my good friend Michelle in Edmonton and she buy's it for me almost the next day. We meet up in Canmore and I get my lamp, which I have never seen in real life. Here is a picture I had seen:

Now my home is not contemporary, but I am determined to mix the old and the new so figured I could at least give it a try for $200.

Here is what Maskros looks like in the box as well as a detail of the paper flower:


I then realised how big this lamp actually is, about 90 cm (32") in diameter. But I was determined to use it somewhere and the only room with a high enough ceiling is the master bedroom.

When we finally removed the ugly ceiling fan that I had been looking at since we bought the house, we hung Maskros from the ceiling and started to assemble each stem and adding the white flowers to the end.



And voila, Maskros is up. Better pictures to come...

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