Welcome! Pineapples are a show of Hospitality!!

pineapples have long been a symbol of hospitality.  the display of pineapples, often seen in architecture and design, is a way to tell your guests "welcome"!
  
I have always loved this symbol and have them throughout our home.  as well, my husband and I decided to use the pineapple motif on our wedding invitations {which we collaborated on and designed ourselves} as a welcoming gesture to our guests, but, also, because we think they are beautiful and regal and represent where we're coming from since we live in a tropical place.  so, we thought a pineapple would be perfect. ☺

back to our home, though...  as I was gathering photos for this post I thought to myself, we actually have a lot more pineapples around than I realized {we even have slightly more than what I have pictured here}.  they must be discreet, though, because no one has ever come to my house and said, "hey, I see that you collect pineapples" as they do with other items we have a lot of... interesting, huh?  anyway, here they are!:

on the tea towel on our bar cart and as part of a flower arrangement {in the 1st photo}:

here they are in the flower arrangement again...

this is actually a candle.  it's on a sconce in our hallway:

...we have 2 of these candles; the other one is on our mantle:

right outside our home!:

this is a finial that I painted and screwed into an old lamp base, I liked both pieces better this way ;)

here it is unpainted:

it's the base of a lovely marble top side table- too bad you can't actually see how beautiful the marble is in these photos:

this is a pineapple lamp that I made, you can see how I did it here

and here's the proof of our invites!

xoxo

Pineapple Lamp Project

LOVE Pineapple Decor, have for a while now.  first we considered getting a pineapple chandelier.  we thought it would be perfect for our south florida home.  

pineapples are tropical and regal at the same time.

we ended up with a shell chandelier, which was always another coveted favorite {tutorial on how i restored one coming soon}.

so back to pineapples...  always loved pineapple lamps, too.  so, since, we didn't get the chandelier, thought that a lamp would be perfect.  this is how we did it:

1st we got some cool old wood-carved pineapples from Paula Roemer, Inc.

then we thought we'd upcycle an old trophy base {from a golf trophy we had taken apart} and use that as the lamp base.

*definitely* wanted to reuse the monogrammed lampshade i had made- remember this project?

this is the drill + bit my hubs used to drill a hole down the middle of the pineapple

so here's our whole 'project suite', or at least the one we originally had planned.  {we decided to reuse the lamp parts from the original, above-mentioned lamp as well.}

...so this was the result...

...but my husband suggested that the lamp base from our original lamp might look better, too...  so we tried that since i was not 100% happy with the 1st result.  

we both liked it better, don't you?  feel free to comment below! 

lastly, i 'painted' it a distressed white finish using a rag instead of a brush and clean white latex paint.  it took some rubbing on and off until i was finally satisfied with the results on all sides and from every angle. 

thanks for stopping by!  if you make one, i'd love to see yours, too!!

xoxo