Hubby and I have stayed in Venice twice, once with our young children. We took a vaporetto to Murano to visit the glassworks. Fascinating to watch the men work. The kids each were given a beautiful clear glass horse figurine, which all these years later they still treasure and display. On our last trip, we visited a small shop run by siblings. We purchased the last of a collection of seven pendant light globes their father had blown for the shop. They were all the same shape but different colours of glass. We purchased them for the new modern house we planned to build the following year or so. We are pleased and grateful to have such unique, handmade and time-honoured beauty embellish the spaces in our home, and the lights always interest guests and we then have a story to tell.

I have one these lights in brown but different shape - i could've had the blue ones as it was a choice between the blue and brown. I live in New Zealand, but I think they were sourced from overseas. Check out this link - you can ask the owner, she is a great lady. https://www.facebook.com/Mr-Ralph-534507496617824/timeline/ or http://www.mrralph.co.nz/

Either of these suitable? Both companies are in Victoria. http://amonsonlighting.com.au/axo-lighting-spillray-pendant-light-6-lights.html http://www.davolucelighting.com.au/Torino-6LT-Round-Pendant-Axolight-Spillray-Pendant.html This one, Western Australia. http://www.alti.com.au/products/spillray-6-light

Fill it with pieces you love and learn to zone out what you can't change. Funnily enough we are having the opposite problem - about to move into a home we have created but still with the 'rental' stuff...it will be an adjustment. Have you seen [this[(https://www.houzz.com.au/magazine/meet-my-houzz-the-coys-stsetivw-vs~60048479) Houzz story about living in a (albeit friendly landlord) rental? Perhaps that is the key - find a great landlord...?? Good luck. I love the concept of hygge - it exactly describes the kind of space I want to create at home and I can't wait to share it with my friends and family. Thanks so much for that link :)