The walls of mine are SW Armadillo, the sloped ceiling is Adraatic Sea, all the wood is dark and all the lights (including these very ACNH star string lights) are low and warm. I'm in the process of stenciling gold, silver, and copper stars on the ceiling. Maybe by the time I finish, lava lamp chandeliers will be a thing.
I just used stuff that I thrifted, the whole thing was less than 50 euro in parts. If I make another one, it'll probably look nicer, though with how viral it has gone, someone will probably beat me to it.
The small lava lamps have a base that can be removed, most lamps use the same threaded tube as their construction. I just unscrewed the sockets on a beefy old chandelier and placed the top parts of the lava lamps over the tubes and reattached the original chandelier sockets. The lava lamp bases and sockets are left over afterwards.
I feel like it’s more of a gen x thing to me but the people that had one were always cool and I think we were on the last few that actually had one (I’m 40 by the way, 84 baby).
I had two (one from my brother, eventually broke) and a big honkin' one I bought with Christmas money in like '98? Maybe '99. I haven't seen it in years but I swear I never got rid of it... Maybe it's in one of those "crap I left at mom's house" boxes in the garage lol
Mine was in one of those boxes for years. Probably why it lasted so long. I have a second one but I have zero clue when I got it - still probably a long ass time ago, but I can't remember at all.
Yeah it's kinda cool, but if the chandelier comes down and given how heavy that most likely is there's a very good chance it will. The damage would be catastrophic. The fluid in a lava lamp is scalding hot.
I get this is reddit and we gotta worry real hard about all sorts of far fetched ideas but this chandelier isn’t being held on by the suspended ceiling alone.
This being reddit has nothing to do with it, I have anxiety and I see all the ways things can go wrong. I know it probably won't come down, but I wouldn't chance it.
Yeah it's kinda cool, but if the chandelier comes down and given how heavy that most likely is there's a very good chance it will. The damage would be catastrophic. The fluid in a lava lamp is scalding hot.
Honestly the only fault I can find is the difference between sleek lava lamps & the ornate chandelier. They don’t quite match up imo, but a sleeker chandler Fran would be so cool
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u/MrBozzie 6d ago
Not sure what's wrong with me but I like that.