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[Patriot3]

 I guess if you lived with it, you would get used to it.  However, I wouldn't put the shelves there to begin with

[LindaSal]

I kind of like it but I would have one shelf rather than two and I would sit under it only if my husband was the one that hung it up!  ( LOL )  He's a perfectionist.

[cactusgal]

I like it but not if I still lived in California 

[Bhvbum]

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@Laura14 wrote:

I sleep under a chandelier.  Should I be worried?  

I like it and, as long as the person hanging knew what they were doing, I'm good.  

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@Laura14 

Perhaps.

There are many things that I didn't know were a "thing" until I read about them here.

I would REALLY love to see the interiors of some of our posters' homes because there are a lot of "rules" that people have.

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I used to watch HG TV a lot and I always found it amazing that on house hunters people would walk in to what I thought was a beautiful modern kitchen and say, "that granite countertop would have to go it's just the wrong color."  Or all the new appliances would have to go because they were the wrong color.

I laughed because it was 25 years before we redid our old kitchen and appliances in the old house we moved into.  I still have the oven because it has gotten so old it looks retro with all of its chrome.

[DREAMON]

I would be fine Dining there. It's a cute area.

[shoptilyadropagain]

I wouldn't have a problem eating there but I would move the chairs more to the center or a little more to the other side just to be a little cautious but moreso, to enjoy the view out the window while eating.

[wilma]

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@Patriot3 wrote:

 I guess if you lived with it, you would get used to it.  However, I wouldn't put the shelves there to begin with

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@Patriot3 

My thoughts too. I would never put shelves there. I am especially confused at having a shelf cross a window. Odd. 

[spiderw]

It wouldn't bother me to sit under the shelves.  What would bother me are the chairs which look uncomfortable.  

[KaySD]

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@Laura14 wrote:

I sleep under a chandelier.  Should I be worried?  

I like it and, as long as the person hanging knew what they were doing, I'm good.  

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@Laura14 

I don't think it's a decorator rule (I.e., fashion), but a much more primitive principle. The older parts of our brain still contain survival remnants, one of which says 'find a protected place to sleep.' It's why we usually want our beds with a wall behind our heads instead of a door or window.

Something heavy over our heads that could fall and kill us just feels wrong at some level--probably completely unconscious in most cases. We can use our fancy cerebral processes to override such impulses, by deciding it's safe and therefore that worrying about is nonsense. But it's not clear whether we ever completely quell the physical reaction, which might subtly interfere with sound sleep.

Also, each of us is different--I'm only talking in generalities.

[dulwich]

The shelves, chandelier would not bother me but chairs look very uncomfortable and table very small so from choice would not ‘dine’ there maybe quick sandwich.