Terrain’s cascade of Stargazer lights makes it a simple matter to tether them to the top of the assembly and let them flow. Could the small twinkly lights you already have also fill the bill? Probably. The 4-foot-long Stargazer Cascade Falls has a promotional price of $36 at shopterrain.com.
Terrain’s silver-color 30-inch-long wreath holder has three adjustable prongs, for $34 at shopterrain.com. A handy person could probably fashion something similar, though not as sturdy, from wire coat hangers.
Terrain used its classic reindeer moss wreath, $88, as the star of this chandelier, but points out that you can showcase your favorite wreath, whatever you might have at hand.
Terrain’s chandelier is a simple concept, relying on the three-prong holder to hold the wreath horizontal.
Terrain’s finished product, festive in its nighttime glow.
MY FAVORITE NEW thing for a spring or summer night is a woodsy-looking outdoor chandelier, perfect for hanging over a fluffed-up picnic table or swaying under a pergola. I saw it on the Terrain site, Terrain being the garden-center/idea-incubator sister of retailers Anthropologie and Urban Outfitters. Terrain’s only stores are in Pennsylvania and Connecticut, but its inspirations and offerings are, of course, available to anyone with an Internet connection.
They are also sometimes susceptible to “adaptation” by those who have somewhat clever hands and possibly not the cash required to buy all the component pieces. In the end, you may decide to just buy the whole thing (or just take a nap instead), but the idea, from Terrain’s clever stylists, may spark your own version.
—Nancy McKeon
Thank you for this Nancy, it’s just what I needed for stringing around my porch chandelier. And yes I could have artfully draped some Christmas lights about, but this is neater. When it comes to artful draping I missed out on the gene. Just ordered!
i’m pretty much tempted by it as well. i have lights, i have a boxwood wreath that will otherwise cool its heels till next christmas, so maybe all i need is the wreath holder. i’ll hang it from my new pergola!
Terrain lights bought and draped — happy to see they’re a muted glow, not at all harsh (which I feared as soon as I ordered). They look spectacular on the chandelier.
My lights and hanging rods arrived today while the MyLittleBird editing crew was lunching at my place–while I was upstairs trying to scan some documents, they put everything together and hung it outside. I’ll light it up tonight and take a picture.