Lighthouse North Shore

I’ve always found it fascinating that there can be huge shops dedicated to lighting. I mean how many different styles of light can there be? Isn’t lighting simply to serve a very practical purpose… since when did it become such a big deal there could be giant show rooms filled with different options?
For my mom’s last birthday my sister and I got wind of the fact she was quite keen to get a chandelier type lighting thing to hang over our staircase. Yuck, I thought, chandeliers are hideous. Never mind my opinion, we headed in here to have a look at some options. I was surprised to find that actually, not all chandeliers are ugly. There were some pretty cool round ones hanging down that I thought might look pretty funky over my mom’s stairs. A lovely lady came over to us and started helping us out. We told her what we were after and also told her our budget, which was well below the price of pretty much everything in the store. The lady did not laugh. She tried her hardest to help us out without sending our budget skyrocketing.
At the end of the day we didn’t actually buy anything because we really were being quite stingy. But if we had saved up a little more I’m sure we would have walked away with something gorgeous.