FWIW springplanter, you might consider having the range delivered and then store it yourself--garage, or ??? There is no guarantee that the range will still be there when you are ready for it. Someone "needs" it to fulfill another job or order, and--"oops, so sorry, it's gone." Not exactly the right thing to do, but that won't help get the range back. We've all heard/read stories about granite and marble slabs on hold for, or even sold outright to people, ending up being sold to others. We kept very close tabs on the two (at that point discontinued) 1.6 gal Toto toilets we ordered for two of our bathrooms. We were working with the same salesperson who had sold us our kitchen and guest bathroom fixtures, so we knew him, and knew he would look out for us. Even so, we told him we would take delivery much earlier than they were needed in order to avoid any unwelcome surprises. If another customer or contractor needed our toilets to complete an order, they easily could have disappeared. So we paid for them and stored them until we were ready to install them, rather than risk losing them to someone else.

If you use hollow threaded rod, available at any hardware store, you can screw a socket to it and run the wire through it. Look up how to wire a lamp and it will explain what I'm saying. You can run the wires behind the "wheel" to each socket. I don't think I'm explaining myself very well but think of each "lamp" as an individual unit with a round base (flower pot saucers would work) and run enough wire to tie them together. It's very do-able just not easily explainable!

Just fyi I really love the look of blue lamp shades too. I ordered one for my daughter's room and packed it up that same night. The light it shed was *scary*! It was so deathly blanched out and frigid; I hated it. In fact, it was the same lamp I see in renovated Chase Bank branches everywhere now! It came from Lamps Plus. I don't know whether you'd encounter a similar problem but at the time I wondered why I couldn't find hardly any blue lamp globes and then I thought I understood why! This certainly cured me of any more such hankerings. For me, never again. YMMV.

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