Why Yes, My Tack Room Does Have a Chandelier

Last year Horse Nation had a post of Tack Rooms That Are Nicer Than Your House.

There is very little likelihood my tack room is ever going to be featured beside such magnificence. This is what I had when we moved in:

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Look at the amazing woodwork!

Despite the craftsmanship that went into the design pictured above, it just wasn’t my taste. Off to the big box hardware store I went, on a mission to find a paint color that wouldn’t show dust too easily. I came home with a gallon of peachy-beige paint and then had to go buy another. Shockingly, dry plywood drinks up paint like I do mochas.

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That’s better. Even if the nostalgic trunks from my cow showing days don’t match the decor.

The above picture is from right before the horses came. It has never been that empty again. As you all know, horse lovers also love stuff for their horses, and it has accumulated. Over the intervening years, a trunk has been added and various shelves. This is it last winter:

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The answer is always more shelving. Or trunks.

I swear it’s never like this! Okay, I lie. It’s like this a lot. How could this ever become the tack room of my dreams?

Then it occurred to me: There’s no reason my little closet couldn’t have a chandelier. Voila!

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Shiny! And, it actually makes more light than the old fixture.

There has been much amusement created by my chandelier. I really wanted something with even more crystal, but that would have been a bit silly. Plus, this one was unwieldy as it is; I couldn’t imagine dealing with a larger one.

Many people had to let me know how much I would hate dusting it. The answer to that is I simply don’t. I live in a dusty place: it’s unavoidable ,and a dust layer on the chandelier is not out of place with the dust everywhere decor. And that peachy-beige paint? Totally doesn’t show the dust. I also put up various hooks and shelf things in an attempt to keep bottles, brushes and halters off the floor so I could actually walk on it.

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Looking in the door to the left

Pretty good results.

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Looking in the door to the right

I think I need to add wainscoting next.

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