Light Shopping

So today we met with the Builder again, this time at Globe Lighting. We've been on the fence about whether to use Direct Buy (and the hassle involved) or go with one of the Builder's suppliers. For awhile there, we thought we could save a bunch of money with DirectBuy, but now we're not so sure.

We're way early for picking out lights, but I need to make a decision now who we'll be going with, since there is so much lead-time for DirectBuy, if we ended up going with them, we'd need to start making purchases shortly.

But I wanted to give Globe Lighting a shot at our business before dismissing them out of hand, so we met with Anna Marie and walked through all the lights in the house. We had already selected the whole house outfit using mostly Sea Gull lights and some other brands with DirectBuy so we brought along our list, including the model numbers.

It took 3 hours, and we were pretty burnt out at the end. I think we made some pretty good selections. We had to compromise some and not get a bunch of super-expensive lights, but we made targeted selections on nice items that should look good.

For the front door we selected a Minka Delancy Small:

 

While for the garage door lanterns, we selected a Minka Delancy Medium:

 

Anna Marie is pretty sure we're close to budget, which is reassuring, considering with DirectBuy we are about $900 over budget. As long as Globe is close, I think we'll be going with them, we'll see.