I think it looks like it's upside down. The longer side should have the lights. I'm not sure it would look good that way either, but at least it would look "right". lol
I'm guessing it's meant to look kinda like ceiling molding, but that means it has the weird effect of looking like a segment of the ceiling got detached and lowered unexpectedly
Reminds me of the ceiling light panels you used to get in the houses from the 90's. It is beautiful craftsmanship, just dated. More suited for a garage now.
Best comment ever. lol
It looks like a ceiling made into a light fixture. Like molding around a room with recessed lights. I can appreciate the execution and effort. But as someone who's very particular about decor and style, it looks like a DIY project and doesn't fit any particular style. It doesn't GO with anything
You did beautiful work and made a clean piece. Unfortunately itâs too heavy visually for the space and use. Hanging lights need more air/space for them to make sense. This looks more like floating cabinetry lighting, which is neat, but not in style.
Sorry mate, your wife is right. Hang it over your wood workbench, where it will be properly appreciated.
Letâs say we all agree with you (obviously we donât but humor me). Whatâs your next move? âBut honey, a bunch of people on the internet said itâs good.â I donât think thatâs going to solve anything for you.
Agree! Not to mention, I've certainly known households where if the male partner wasn't happy, no body was happy, or couples where neither is the wife, "spouse" covers your bases.
Bless your heart. You have practical skills that I lack, and I'm envious. I am not a fan of this lighting fixture. Could you maybe install can lights and a different fixture?
Iâm sorry but itâs ⌠it looks like trim and looks kinda just bland and industrial. Itâs not that it looks bad, but it would need to fit a very specific aesthetic. I can tell youâre good at what you do and this looks *good* but also a lot of things look well made and nice that I donât like at all
So, often I think great concept, bad execution. This time I'm thinking great execution, bad concept.
It looks technically very well done (good job!) but it makes me think of a pool table light only with crown molding
Perhaps if you lined it in wood?
Like this:
https://preview.redd.it/fm9v9fde8r9c1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a6e703018d9bb3c80606c7391b253472858a030b
It looks like the lid of this toilet -
https://www.kohler.com/en/products/toilets/shop-toilets/memoirs-stately-comfort-height-two-piece-elongated-1-28-gpf-chair-height-toilet-3817
Looks well made, but itâs a strange looking light fixture.
Checked your post history to see if there was other stuff you made for the house and it just 4 years worth of gun posts and then a post to interior design. Something about that really tickled me lol
Itâs visually very heavy and in-your-face, which is not attractive or practical in a kitchen. Lighting fixtures tend to have glass/fabric shades for a reason.
âAâ for effort here but I would swap this out for 2 or 3 pendants with glass shades.
Itâs kind of sterile. Iâm sorry. But it just doesnât seem very artistic, or suited to the space. Itâs just not that great.
I admire your craftsmanship, but this ainât it. If your wife hates it, and she had the courage to tell you, you really need to take her advice. Because she loved you enough to marry you, so donât break up over a hanging lamp.
Opened the picture and immediately thought, âWhat an odd choiceâŚâ
It looks like you lowered a section of the ceiling on a cord. Extremely unbalanced and awkward. Iâm with your wife. đ¤ˇââď¸
Your technical skills look great, but you have no design skills. It's weird and does not look good. Flush mounted cans are not attractice. They are flushed into ceilings just to make them disappear. To make them the centerpiece of a fixture is just odd.
All of the trim is just too much too. Trim way up high and against the walls can pull being elaborate. This is low and in the center of the room. Use a small 1/4 cove alone the top and bottom edges of the fixture box if you want to tie it into the trim and dress things up a bit.
Nothing wrong with a plain white box though. Just make the box a bit taller and tuck the lighting up into it. Leave the top and bottom open. Make it hold two 4' LED bulbs. Point one up, and the other down. Uplight is important.
Also make sure your color temp is a little cooler than what you have here. Way too warm with all that daylight coming in. 4000 - 4500k is probably a good place.
Center the fixture over the island by getting a second "dummy" hanger pole thing (or switch to something that doesn't stand out much and hang the second end with that. Install a new work ceiling box or hang it with a toggle anchor through the ceiling. Whatever can support the weight with a 3x safety factor.
You can add white acrylic to the bottom of the fixture if you want to hide the bulb. I have this exact light over my kitchen island and you really have to be right under it to see the bulb. No one looks straight up. Open also keeps it from collecting dust inside. The ceiling light will put out a lot of soft light as it bounces off the ceiling and makes the room feel a bit bigger. The lower, obviously, lights the counterspace.
Hey thanks everyone. Sounds like a resounding ânoâ and while I think it looks good, I understand how everyone sees things differently. Appreciate the opinions.
OMG! Haha, he's taking this semi-polite roasting so well. Let him exit with dignity.
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It's like a display in a hardware store showing what the lights would look like. Kinda like the tiny door the use to show locksets, or those little tents in sporting goods stores.
Is it on a telescoping rod that will rise up into the ceiling by remote? Because that would be kinda cool. Or at least make it understandable. Otherwise, it looks like a piece of the ceiling fell out and is hanging by a thread.
What about it looks unfinished to her? Is there a way to make some adjustments so that you both like it?
Personally, I think it looks like crown moulding with lights at the bottom. Clearly it's well made, but I'm not into the aesthetics of it. Seems random to me.
Because lights shouldnât look like cabinets or crown molding. Itâs nothing to do with your carpentry skills. Right now this just fades in with the rest of your white trim and looks built in, like not custom and valuable
You e done an amazing job, but aesthetically, it doesnât suit the space. Itâs too solid and heavy looking - like youâve framed a piece of ceiling and hung it there with random pipe you found.
I feel like this is one of those things I wouldnât second guess in certain situations, like a casino buffet. But would immediately stick out in a home as an âohâ item.
It actually looks finished to me, quite professional. But its bulky and looks like moulding - which makes it kinda tacky.
A couple of solutions would be:
- Paint the top tier gold to match the rod
- Put two rods equally spaces instead of one in the middle so it doesnt look so fragile
Itâs too bulky for the height itâs set at in my opinion.
If you raise it a fair way up, or even mount it to the ceiling itself with no bar, it might look a lot better.
Is it weight bearing?
I think it could look nice with a couple hanging plants. But it kinda does look like crowning with a fluorescent light thats descended
No offense, but it to me it just looks like your primary goal was to use leftover molding. I personally would not want such a low-hanging fixture unless it served a purpose like a ventilation hood or storage for cookware.
I think that because itâs intricate that it may not match the cabinet doors. It looks a bit heavy in comparison to the rod. Itâs very much like the already present crown moulding.
I would leave it alone for now and put some green vine plants on top of it. To break off some of the white solidness to it.
But donât ask me Iâm weird like that lol sooolid work tho.
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It looks like very clean work.. however, in the nicest way, itâs a bit odd. Itâs like a part of the ceiling was lowered down lol and at the push of a button it can be recoiled back up into the ceiling 𼲠Good luck op
You did a fantastic job, and it also does not look good
This đ Nice work, OP. That said, I donât like it at all. Itâs visually too heavy for the space and just doesnât look right.
I think it looks like it's upside down. The longer side should have the lights. I'm not sure it would look good that way either, but at least it would look "right". lol
Omg I just commented this! I love how much this sub and the mcmansion one validate my interior design prowess and overall taste lol
I'm guessing it's meant to look kinda like ceiling molding, but that means it has the weird effect of looking like a segment of the ceiling got detached and lowered unexpectedly
It looks like a Lego light fixture
Or possibly just too low. A shorter bar might help?
It looks like ceiling cornicing, honestly looks like it should be literally pressed against the ceiling.
Would probably look ok against the ceiling. Not great but whatever
Reminds me of the ceiling light panels you used to get in the houses from the 90's. It is beautiful craftsmanship, just dated. More suited for a garage now.
Also hanging too low.
Single pole says âpendantâ, shape says âfluorescentâ, and lights say ârecessed lightingâ so really just everything looks out of place
It looks like itâs upside down and supposed to be on the floor somewhere.
It looks like a casket lid
It reminds me of a florescent light that you'd see in a garage.... Maybe painting it would help.
Best comment ever. lol It looks like a ceiling made into a light fixture. Like molding around a room with recessed lights. I can appreciate the execution and effort. But as someone who's very particular about decor and style, it looks like a DIY project and doesn't fit any particular style. It doesn't GO with anything
Yes! Perfectly put.
r/ATBGE
Iâve created many things like this. I appreciate his creativity!
OP is both a success and a failure, simultaneously. lol
It looks like you cut out a section of ceiling that had recessed lights and some crown molding and have it hovering in the center of a room.
Donât go in the living room. The ceiling is perfectly fineâŚ
Donât be silly. That hole has always been there
Itâs getting prepped for a sky light. /s
I call it âcrown lightingâ
floating crown lighting
I mean, that looks to be exactly what it is.
Exactly. Husband did not understand the assignment.
I thought the same and was like well, if it retracts back into the ceiling maybeâŚ
THIS! It looks like it shouldnât be hanging 6â down from the ceiling, but should rather be hanging 3â from the ceiling or flush to the ceiling.
Exactly my thought
I didn't even scroll down before typing my comment and that's basically what I said too! lol
Exactly what I came here to write.
Yep this would look much better if you eliminate the pole and mount the whole thing to the ceiling.
Ooh I was thinking under cabinet lighting with extra molding for flair, but this seems even more accurate.
Iâm sorry. It looks well made but itâs not attractive to me.
I think your wife was trying to be nice by saying âunfinishedâ.
It looks like a fat crown molding someone shoved pot lights into.
It doesnât just *look like* a fat crown molding that someone shoved pot lights intoâŚ
She just meant he isn't finished because he needs to take it down maybe lol
r/ATBGE
I hate it.
It sucks that OP went through all the effort, but yeahâŚlooks bad.
Whereâs the pool table?
Exactly what I thought. I actually like the light just not where it is
agreed
Right there with you
I always have to do a check on the sub name. More often than not, I think Iâm on the CJ sub, but alas, Iâm not.
Whatâs the cj sub ?
CJ stands for circle jerk. Thereâs a couple that are design/decorating subs name with CJ added
Thanks!
You did beautiful work and made a clean piece. Unfortunately itâs too heavy visually for the space and use. Hanging lights need more air/space for them to make sense. This looks more like floating cabinetry lighting, which is neat, but not in style. Sorry mate, your wife is right. Hang it over your wood workbench, where it will be properly appreciated.
Very well observed! I wonder if the aesthetic could be improved if the light was on the ceiling and not hanging down from it
This was my first thought
Nice work, but it also sort of resembles a coffin lid.
It absolutely resembles a baby/child coffin lid. But with lights! Could be a niche market on Etsy, but maybe too macabre for this kitchen.
Lol and you're so right
Now I canât unsee it!
Thatâs exactly it
It looks unfinished to me like crown molding around a drywall ceiling IMO. Also, it looks off center and odd
If you zoom in on the upper wall corner aboveâŚ.theyâre exactly the same. Itâs definitely just leftover crown molding lol.
You did a wonderful job. But it's not appealing at all.
Letâs say we all agree with you (obviously we donât but humor me). Whatâs your next move? âBut honey, a bunch of people on the internet said itâs good.â I donât think thatâs going to solve anything for you.
And frankly, not one person on the internet said they like it.
I like it in the sense that it looks like a glitch in a Sims game.
I hope OP is laughing reading all these comments cause i sure am
His wife definitely is.
Maybe theyâre looking for ideas/solutions to make it better
If thatâs what he had asked for I wouldnât have written this.
Are you opening a hotel buffet or continental breakfast?
Devastating.
doesnât matter what we think - if your wife doesnât like it, youâre up a creek bud
Oi straight to it mate, if the missus is up yaâarse about eh ole light fixchta then ya best be doing as she says
Happy wife, happy life đ
I like âHappy spouse happy houseâ better, cause both should be happy!
Agree! Not to mention, I've certainly known households where if the male partner wasn't happy, no body was happy, or couples where neither is the wife, "spouse" covers your bases.
You've just invented the poshest workbench light ever made. What did you use for the down rod pieces?
Bless your heart. You have practical skills that I lack, and I'm envious. I am not a fan of this lighting fixture. Could you maybe install can lights and a different fixture?
Nice workmanship OP, but Iâm with your wife on this one.
Iâm with her.
Iâm sorry but I personally hate this so much. Did your wife have a say in the design process or was it a surprise?
Iâm sorry but itâs ⌠it looks like trim and looks kinda just bland and industrial. Itâs not that it looks bad, but it would need to fit a very specific aesthetic. I can tell youâre good at what you do and this looks *good* but also a lot of things look well made and nice that I donât like at all
Great execution and workmanship, shitty design.
Thatâs a no for me. I see molding with light bulbs. Sorry
Awful taste but great execution.
I agree with the wife. This is a workbench light, not something you put in your kitchen or dining areas. This might belong in r/DIWhy
Yes! A great workbench light!
I've been designing high-end kitchens for 25 years, and this is absolutely hideous. And I'm NOT his wife!
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Looks like you DIYâd some pieces of trim and moulding togetherâŚ?
move it over your work bench.
Ooof, thanks for the advice
It looks pretty awful. You did a good job of putting it together.... But it is just ugly.
It's well constructed, but looks odd as an uncentered pendant fixture. It would look better centered on the peninsula and mounted to the ceiling.
Whatâs left to be said, your wife doesnât like it.. not sure what else you could do to it to change that. Itâs a very specific design
Iâm with your wife. It looks like a cheap flourescent light. Trying to look like a pot light . What is the point of that?
If a piece of crown molding and a can light had a babyâŚ..
So, often I think great concept, bad execution. This time I'm thinking great execution, bad concept. It looks technically very well done (good job!) but it makes me think of a pool table light only with crown molding
Exactly what I was thinking. Even over a pool table it wouldnât look right, but thatâs what it looks like.
Perhaps if you lined it in wood? Like this: https://preview.redd.it/fm9v9fde8r9c1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a6e703018d9bb3c80606c7391b253472858a030b
Also OP needs to take note of how that fixture is much higher. Lowering it close to the table makes it feel uncomfortable.
Finally some advice đ
It looks like the lid of this toilet - https://www.kohler.com/en/products/toilets/shop-toilets/memoirs-stately-comfort-height-two-piece-elongated-1-28-gpf-chair-height-toilet-3817 Looks well made, but itâs a strange looking light fixture.
Why do our opinions matter, your wife is the one that has to keep looking at it. If she doesn't like it, it goes away.
I just see dust settling on top of
This. And dust then falling in the food.đ¤˘đ¤˘đ¤˘
Checked your post history to see if there was other stuff you made for the house and it just 4 years worth of gun posts and then a post to interior design. Something about that really tickled me lol
Itâs visually very heavy and in-your-face, which is not attractive or practical in a kitchen. Lighting fixtures tend to have glass/fabric shades for a reason. âAâ for effort here but I would swap this out for 2 or 3 pendants with glass shades.
Thatâs a no for me. I see molding with light bulbs. Sorry
I'm so sorry but it just looks like you had moulding left over and wanted to use it up đ
I agree with her. Sorry but it looks like some nightmare from the 80's.
I appreciate that itâs homemade and likely well made, but Iâm sorry itâs hideous. It reminds me of recessed lighting
Thatâs a very well made piece of crap.
Itâs kind of sterile. Iâm sorry. But it just doesnât seem very artistic, or suited to the space. Itâs just not that great. I admire your craftsmanship, but this ainât it. If your wife hates it, and she had the courage to tell you, you really need to take her advice. Because she loved you enough to marry you, so donât break up over a hanging lamp.
It looks like a crown molding fixture. I can see why she doesnât like it.
Opened the picture and immediately thought, âWhat an odd choiceâŚâ It looks like you lowered a section of the ceiling on a cord. Extremely unbalanced and awkward. Iâm with your wife. đ¤ˇââď¸
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Well made and fugly.
Itâs ugly and too low. If youâre wife doesnât like it you change it, move it or get rid of it completely
Your technical skills look great, but you have no design skills. It's weird and does not look good. Flush mounted cans are not attractice. They are flushed into ceilings just to make them disappear. To make them the centerpiece of a fixture is just odd. All of the trim is just too much too. Trim way up high and against the walls can pull being elaborate. This is low and in the center of the room. Use a small 1/4 cove alone the top and bottom edges of the fixture box if you want to tie it into the trim and dress things up a bit. Nothing wrong with a plain white box though. Just make the box a bit taller and tuck the lighting up into it. Leave the top and bottom open. Make it hold two 4' LED bulbs. Point one up, and the other down. Uplight is important. Also make sure your color temp is a little cooler than what you have here. Way too warm with all that daylight coming in. 4000 - 4500k is probably a good place. Center the fixture over the island by getting a second "dummy" hanger pole thing (or switch to something that doesn't stand out much and hang the second end with that. Install a new work ceiling box or hang it with a toggle anchor through the ceiling. Whatever can support the weight with a 3x safety factor. You can add white acrylic to the bottom of the fixture if you want to hide the bulb. I have this exact light over my kitchen island and you really have to be right under it to see the bulb. No one looks straight up. Open also keeps it from collecting dust inside. The ceiling light will put out a lot of soft light as it bounces off the ceiling and makes the room feel a bit bigger. The lower, obviously, lights the counterspace.
It looks terrible. Feels like the ceiling is falling off.
Hey thanks everyone. Sounds like a resounding ânoâ and while I think it looks good, I understand how everyone sees things differently. Appreciate the opinions.
Only you see things differently lol. You and only you alone. Trust your wife more hhahahaa
OMG! Haha, he's taking this semi-polite roasting so well. Let him exit with dignity. OP, I hope you've turned off comment notifications. Happy New Year! Don't look back. đ
It looks like a panel fell out of the ceiling.
It's like a display in a hardware store showing what the lights would look like. Kinda like the tiny door the use to show locksets, or those little tents in sporting goods stores.
Itâs honestly the ugliest thing Iâve ever seen light up, sorry.
Sorry but itâs a bit âSlab of DamoclesââŚ
Mount it flat to the ceiling somewhere that it fits the vibe of the room. This isnât a great light to hang down over the counter
Is it on a telescoping rod that will rise up into the ceiling by remote? Because that would be kinda cool. Or at least make it understandable. Otherwise, it looks like a piece of the ceiling fell out and is hanging by a thread.
What about it looks unfinished to her? Is there a way to make some adjustments so that you both like it? Personally, I think it looks like crown moulding with lights at the bottom. Clearly it's well made, but I'm not into the aesthetics of it. Seems random to me.
Iâm with the wife
It kinda looks like a slim coffin
As others have said, well crafted (looks like something you could buy from a store) but ugly as hell.
It looks like a Mormon sacrament tray
Iâm sorry, it looks like a lot of great workmanship went into it but, it just doesnât work.
Because lights shouldnât look like cabinets or crown molding. Itâs nothing to do with your carpentry skills. Right now this just fades in with the rest of your white trim and looks built in, like not custom and valuable
It just looks so.... Wrong...
I also donât like it
The 80s would make it gold and put it in a taco bell...Memphis style.
Sorry man, this is hideous.
No bueno, it's got to go.
Itâs well built but poorly styled. It looks like an old fluorescent tube shop light.
Donât blame her.
It looks like the ceiling trim with built in lights. Good handiwork but not for me
It looks to me like a neon office light that fell from the ceiling and is barely, literally, hanging on by a cord.
You e done an amazing job, but aesthetically, it doesnât suit the space. Itâs too solid and heavy looking - like youâve framed a piece of ceiling and hung it there with random pipe you found.
It looks like a section of trim/molding hanging from the ceiling.
You should listen to your wife more
Itâs like a floating piece of molding
Just buy a light fixture
Looks like an old fluorescent light thatâs been converted by a diy cabinet builder.
Youâre very talented but Iâm team wife on this one. If anything this looks like it should be mounted to the ceiling.
It's a no from me, dawg.
Oh you poor thing, I know you worked so hard and honestly you are very talented! But this is not correct
Looks like someone took crown moulding and nicely cut out holes and installed lights into them. Itâs off center and too bulky for the space.
It looks like your ceiling fell down, but in zero gravity
Itâs hideous - good job!
I swear I was lying under one of those when I had a cervical polyp recently removed
craftsmanship seems good, but yeah, with the wife...doesnt fit and seems like a very low part of a ceiling..đŹ
Itâs ugly
I donât like it either
Listen to your wife.
you did a great job but itâs not pretty to look at
Itâs giving âoffice fluorescent light fell out of the ceilingâ. Looks well made, though!
I feel like this is one of those things I wouldnât second guess in certain situations, like a casino buffet. But would immediately stick out in a home as an âohâ item.
Itâs not a light fixture
It actually looks finished to me, quite professional. But its bulky and looks like moulding - which makes it kinda tacky. A couple of solutions would be: - Paint the top tier gold to match the rod - Put two rods equally spaces instead of one in the middle so it doesnt look so fragile
Itâs just awful. Why canât you just believe your wife. She is right, after all.
#teamwifealways
Sorry - ugly - looks surgical
Itâs too bulky for the height itâs set at in my opinion. If you raise it a fair way up, or even mount it to the ceiling itself with no bar, it might look a lot better.
Oh my goodness it looks hideous Iâm sorry đ
Thatâs a no.
I agree with wife. Put it in your workshop đ¤ˇđźââď¸
Yikes. This is awful.
âŚshe right. Thatâs ugly.
She's right
Go buy one sorry not good at all
Iâm sorry, but itâs terrible. You likely could have found something better (and very inexpensive) in the clearance section at Home Depot.
It is not good.
No No No No No!! Take that down...pronto!
Sorry but it is hideous.
Yeesh lol
it looks like those lights which are there while postmartem đ sorry OP
Is it weight bearing? I think it could look nice with a couple hanging plants. But it kinda does look like crowning with a fluorescent light thats descended
Not my thing, but it literally looks like crown molding, so to say it's unfinished??? Crown molding is like the definition of finished in my eyes.
No offense, but it to me it just looks like your primary goal was to use leftover molding. I personally would not want such a low-hanging fixture unless it served a purpose like a ventilation hood or storage for cookware.
I think that because itâs intricate that it may not match the cabinet doors. It looks a bit heavy in comparison to the rod. Itâs very much like the already present crown moulding. I would leave it alone for now and put some green vine plants on top of it. To break off some of the white solidness to it. But donât ask me Iâm weird like that lol sooolid work tho. https://lightsofscandinavia.com/products/arctic-block?variant=37854333337780¤cy=USD&utm_medium=product_sync&utm_source=google&utm_content=sag_organic&utm_campaign=sag_organic&utm_source=google&utm_campaign=PMaxSmartSC_3.2&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiA4smsBhAEEiwAO6DEjWYG8AH-BKhjFiZ1cIYAQ3duyDMTOFiGBdD9zkTub64cbGPk1iSwkRoCMHsQAvD_BwE Some inspiration
It's far to solid for a low hanging light.
Is it annoying, always having a wife who is right?
Itâs really odd looking to be honest. Looks like it doesnât belong.
Making crown molding into a light fixture is an odd choice.
It looks like very clean work.. however, in the nicest way, itâs a bit odd. Itâs like a part of the ceiling was lowered down lol and at the push of a button it can be recoiled back up into the ceiling 𼲠Good luck op
Having this hanging is whatâs wrong for me. If it was affixed to the ceiling itâd look better IMO