Foyer After

 These are the blood and guts of the new chandelier I chose for the foyer. I naively assumed it would arrive already assembled.

It took about 2 hours to hang all the crystals on that sucker.

It took another 2 hours (and a lot of inappropriate language) to hang it.

 We said a little prayer that the house wouldn't burn down and turned the electricity back on. So far so good...

Here's a reminder of what the foyer looked like before:

And here is what it looks like now: 

Now if only little elves will sneak in during the middle of the night and paint all the trimwork bright white.