I was very inspired when I recently visited Melissa’s in Stellenbosch. They sell beautiful hand made baskets amongst all their other hand made pretty things. I thought these baskets could actually double up as hanging lights when turned upside down while providing great atmosphere with the interesting light patterns it would let through.
Coincidentally we were redoing our ceiling on our verandah with styroboard and we had the chance to change the lights if we wanted.
I immediately revisited Melissa’s and took the baskets to Fidder‘s to have them fitted as hanging lamps.. also dont forget to finish it off with pretty ball shaped bulbs with low watts for dimmed light. The result – a verandah with great ambience!
