Lights? We don't need no stinkin' lights. Now with an Update

Swiss apartments - rental apartments, mind you - do not, as a rule, come with lights. No ceiling fixtures, not even of the cheapest kind. (They also generally do not come with window treatments of any kind, hence Small Boy possesses the only room in our apartment with actual curtains.) They do come with electricity and sockets but you, my friend, must buy floor lamps and/or mount the ceiling fixtures yourself. So in an effort at some trans-Atlantic yeah-we-could-improve-on-this-but-we-are-teh-lazy-and/or-cheap solidarity with Phantom, may I present our office light:



And our hallway light:



And the light in our guest room:



Our dining room, however, rocks:



And Small Boy has the best lighting in the apartment:



It wouldn't be that big a deal to change these things, but it's just sooooo low on the never-ending list of priorities, you know?

But it's terribly un-Swiss.

UPDATE: To add insult to ugliness, the bulb in the office just blew!