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Not long ago, we wrote about the evolution of a chandelier that, over the course of the last two decades, has become the status fixture for Brooklyn remodels: the Three-Arm Ceiling Lamp by Serge Mouille, a 1950s Parisian designer. It’s surprisingly easy to procure a Mouille online — the fixtures, which were once only available at specialty antique shops — are available on Design Within Reach for some $7,000. Which made us wonder: is it possible to shop for a similarly impactful, but not-so-similarly expensive chandelier online?

Nordic Modern Table Lights We reached out to a bevy of designers and asked them just that. The consensus was that while there is no shortage of inexpensive, nice-to-look-at chandeliers available online, it is a slightly more difficult thing to shop for on the internet than, say, a couch cushion. Light fixtures are difficult to repackage and ship back without shattering a bulb or eight. And if your very-delicate-and-easily-breakable fixture does, in fact, break en route, most retailers will not refund full payment. The experts we consulted recommended combating this chandelier-specific issue by doing your homework before you start shopping. Interior designer Joy Moyler recommends, for one, measuring the ceiling height in the room you’d like to put the chandelier into, then thinking carefully about who is going to be occupying the space. “You want to make sure to leave at least 12 inches above the tallest person in the house’s’ head,” she says. “My husband is six-foot-two — if I’m getting a chandelier for our bedroom, which has a 9-foot ceiling height, I know I have about one foot and ten inches to play with, no more. And that includes the chain, which people often forget to measure when they’re shopping for a chandelier online.” For the go-to, under-$1,000 chandeliers our consulted designers use for their clients’ bedrooms, foyers, dining rooms, low-ceilinged spaces, and lofts, see below.