We used to have a small chandelier type light in the living room. Now it’s lamp/light shade thing, it’s just this flat rectangular thing.

It probably looks a lot more modern now.

it really does. and i think the new circular leds can switch between white and warm/yellow light, while the rectangular one has its own remote and you can make it cycle through the colors of the rainbow. XD

I love hanging lights.

At my grandparents' house, there weren't any lights properly attached to the ceiling at all. So in the rooms, they just attached ceiling hooks and then suspended lanterns from them, a different style for each room, with long cords running from ceiling hook to ceiling hook and then down the wall to an outlet (we did have wiring for electricity in that house, so at least there were outlets. One of my aunts' place? She still had wall sconces for candles! Stubborn woman, that. Trying to get her place up to code so it could be sold after she died was a nightmare, and eventually I think one of the cousins just ended up keeping it).
My favorite room, they wove the electric cord through this pretty bronze-ish chain and the suspended lantern was made from many small, super-thin pieces of wood. The light would shine through them so you could see the grain patterns and it colored the light a warm inviting shade.

You know.

It occurs to me as I type this... I do own my own house. I could totally just do this myself.
>.<
Blind spots, you keep popping up.

Right.

Let me just go online and see how much it would cost.

sounds kinda dangerous, lights that aren't really attached to the ceiling. i'd be afraid of them falling off or something.

Ehhh, never happened in the 60-odd years they had that house, so... pretty good track record. You just have to get a sturdy ceiling hook and attach it well?

But, I don't think it would support swinging off the lights. That might be too much!

Although.

I guess.

You could contact one of the gymnasiums or sports centers or school contractors who make those whatsits attached to the ceiling for people to climb and use, and then hire them to put one in your house ceiling, and attach a light to it.

Then it'd work.

Seems pretty expensive though.

Maybe as a bucket-list item?

hum. i'd probably look at every ceiling hook with suspicion. i'd probably feel safer wearing a hard hat. xD

omgg i remember my old primary school gym (i think it was primary school gym, the school has long been torn down), they used to have climbing ropes that went up to the ceiling. xD dunno if they still do that these days in school gyms.

I have definitely seen those climbing ropes!

Couldn't use them much personally, but it was always impressive to see the more agile kids just zoom up those ropes like they were monkeys or something. Swish! And they'd pat the ceiling! Then, swish! And they'd slide back down and race after someone to tag them for their turn.

yeah i remember seeing kids that could climb all the way up to the ceiling. me, i'm too weak for that pft. i don't remember even being able to stay up on a climbing rope, let alone climbing up it. xD

My elementary and middle school had them. I could never do the ropes but I was good at climbing the cargo nets.

Your aunt sounds like my grandmother. She's super stubborn about updating her home. The chain on her ceiling fan/light broke and she decided to just screw out the bulbs just enough to go out instead of getting a new one or getting it fixed. When she wanted the light she would just screw in the bulbs a little bit and they'd turn on. Eventually my uncle who is a contractor heard about it and fixed it for her. She complained the whole time.