Post #220189 by Sabina on Sat, Mar 11, 2006 10:57 AM

Funny you should mention!

Yeah exactly, their original intent was hanging lights- that's how they came home in the first place. Thing is, our ceiling is lower than I had initially thought :(

So for the moment, they're in a holding pattern until we get the ceiling problem figured out- for the moment, it's WHITE and NOT TIKI, however, it is possible that this will be the year we fix that. (Please, oh pretty, pretty please! For the love of Tiki, de-white my ceiling!) As that project comes along we'll see if we can 'hanging ball light' them perhaps in a corner over a table or something such that guests wouldn't be bumping their heads all the time. I'm actually kinda looking foreward to tackling the trickines of how I'd use them as lights- perhaps with just a simple colored bulb inside, then agian, perhaps we line them with burlap or rice paper (tapa would get overwhelmed by the vine-y-ness, I think.)

I got them about 2 1/2 years back, and haven't checked recently to see if IKEA still carries them, but then, I'm overdue for a basic IKEA run- as spring comes, their 'garden' department sometimes has bamboo fencing and other rattan goodies- keep an eye out!