--- title: "Nhà Chín Phòng: bedside light for a cold, damp town" description: "Nine Đông Chí bedside pendants with 4 W bulbs, a Xuân Phân set in the lobby, sealed rattan, crated and installed in two days. VND 35,600,000 before VAT." canonical: https://denhachi.thenexova.cloud/en/projects/nha-chin-phong-homestay-da-lat lang: en last-updated: 2026-10-05 --- ![A pine-panelled bedroom with a woven pendant, a bedside lamp and an armchair by curtained windows](/_astro/project-homestay.COWX1-pq_25MQ9.jpg) Nhà Chín Phòng homestay · Lâm Viên - Đà Lạt ward, Lâm Đồng province · 2026 # Nhà Chín Phòng: bedside light for a cold, damp town > Nine Đông Chí bedside pendants with 4 W bulbs, a Xuân Phân set in the lobby, sealed rattan, crated and installed in two days. VND 35,600,000 before VAT. Nguồn / Source: https://denhachi.thenexova.cloud/en/projects/nha-chin-phong-homestay-da-lat Nine Đông Chí bedside pendants with 4 W bulbs, a Xuân Phân set in the lobby, sealed rattan, crated and installed in two days. VND 35,600,000 before VAT. Owner Phan Quốc Toàn and Lê Hồng Nhung Room Nine-room homestay on a hillside, pine-panelled rooms, shared lobby with a dining table for six First light mock-up 48 hours after the photos Revisions 1: 6 W bulbs changed to 4 W Making and test lighting 3 weeks Installation 2 days on site Nhà Chín Phòng is a nine-room homestay on a hillside in Lâm Viên - Đà Lạt ward, Lâm Đồng province. Phan Quốc Toàn and Lê Hồng Nhung own it and run it themselves. The bedrooms are panelled in pine. Downstairs there is a shared lobby with a dining table for six, where guests have breakfast. ## The rooms before Each room had a flush ceiling light in the middle and a small table lamp on a shelf. A guest reading in bed had to get up to switch off the ceiling light, then read with the table lamp shining in their face. Toàn wanted a bedside light you could read by that would not glare into your eyes once you lay down. ## The problem in numbers Đà Lạt is damp. Average relative humidity is about 85% across the year and the rainy season runs from late April to October, according to the climate table in the [Vietnamese Wikipedia article on Đà Lạt](https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%90%C3%A0%5FL%E1%BA%A1t) (which cites the Địa chí Đà Lạt; checked 4 October 2026). The rooms have timber walls, windows facing the valley, and heating that is rarely switched on. For us that number rules out giấy dó (dó paper, made from the bark of the dó tree) straight away. It gives soft, even light, but it does not belong in a damp room. That leaves rattan and seagrass. The shades need a matte moisture coat and must hang well away from the bathrooms. The second problem is distance. The homestay is in Đà Lạt, the workshop in Ho Chi Minh City. Nine rooms, one lobby, thirteen bulbs: everything had to arrive intact and go up in as few days as possible, so no room stayed empty for long. ## The mock-up, and one change Nhung sent a photo of one bedroom and one of the lobby, both taken at night, with the ceiling heights. Within 48 hours Đặng Thu Hà sent back the mock-up: a [Đông Chí](/en/collection/dong-chi) (Winter Solstice) pendant beside each bed, and a Xuân Phân (Spring Equinox) set of four staggered pendants over the lobby table. Đông Chí is a rattan bell 48 cm tall, woven closed except for one open band in the middle. Light leaves through that band as a horizontal ring at the eye level of someone sitting up against the headboard, enough to read a page. Lie down and look up, and you see closed weave, not the bulb. The only change: in the picture, Nhung found the band of light from a 6 W bulb a little harsh against the pine. We switched to a 4 W LED, still 2700K (the yellow-white of an old incandescent) and still an E27 screw socket. The price did not change. ## Making and installing Lâm Văn Lộc bent thirteen brass frames. Huỳnh Thị Mến wove the nine bells on a single wooden mould so every room has the same size, then sealed them, along with the two rattan shades of the Xuân Phân set. Tô Minh Khang wired every lamp and left each one lit for 24 hours. Because the lamps were leaving the city, they went in a wooden crate, each shade packed separately, with an illustrated installation guide. Khang followed the crate up to Đà Lạt and installed over two days: four rooms and the lobby on the first, the other five rooms on the second. Toàn arranged bookings so that each room was empty for only half a day. At each bed Khang set the cable length on the spot, so the ring of light sits at reading height, and photographed the number under the canopy for our ledger. ## What it is like now Thirteen bulbs: nine 4 W at the bedsides and four 6 W in the lobby, 60 W in all. Each lamp came with a spare, and any electrical shop in Đà Lạt sells the replacement. The rattan gets a wipe with a dry cloth once a month. No lamp hangs in a bathroom. Toàn puts it simply: “Guests keep asking where to buy the bedside lamps. I give them the workshop’s number.” ## What it cost, and why | Item | Amount | | --------------------------------------- | ------------------ | | 9 Đông Chí pendants (9 × VND 2,400,000) | VND 21,600,000 | | Xuân Phân set for the lobby | VND 9,800,000 | | Wooden crate and freight | VND 1,200,000 | | Travel and two days of installation | VND 3,000,000 | | **Total before VAT** | **VND 35,600,000** | With 8% VAT that comes to VND 38,448,000, half as a deposit on the approved drawing, half after installation. Delivery and fitting are free only inside Ho Chi Minh City; for other provinces the crate and the trip are quoted up front, written on the drawing, and do not change. The 4 W bulbs cost nothing extra. Frame and shade carry the same 24-month warranty as every lamp we make. Read Khang’s piece on [lighting a homestay in Đà Lạt](/en/journal/lighting-a-homestay-in-da-lat), Mến’s on [rattan in humid weather](/en/journal/rattan-lamps-humidity-care), and our page on [shipping and installation](/en/shipping-and-installation). An illustrative project for a demo site; figures are made up. ## Cost, before VAT | 9 Đông Chí pendants, 48 cm (9 × VND 2,400,000), 4 W bulbs at no extra cost | 21,600,000 VND | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------- | | Xuân Phân set of four for the lobby, standard | 9,800,000 VND | | Wooden crate and freight to Đà Lạt | 1,200,000 VND | | Travel and two days of installation in Đà Lạt | 3,000,000 VND | | Total | 35,600,000 VND | - [9 × Đông Chí](/en/collection/dong-chi) 48 cm tall, raw brass, 1.5 m brown cable, 4 W 2700K bulb - [1 × Xuân Phân](/en/collection/xuan-phan) Standard: two linen and two square-weave rattan shades, 1.2 to 1.8 m cables > “Guests keep asking where to buy the bedside lamps. I give them the workshop's number.” > > Phan Quốc Toàn and Lê Hồng Nhung Led by [Tô Minh Khang](/en/workshop/makers/to-minh-khang) [Send your room photo](/en/light-mock-up) ## Other projects - [![An apartment living room at dusk, two square-shade table lamps lit on either side of the sofa, the city beyond the glass door](/_astro/project-apartment.CDpEuEv-_Z1mM6xw.jpg)Khoa and Uyên's apartmentKhoa and Uyên's apartment: light back over the table](/en/projects/an-khanh-apartment-thu-duc) - [![A café seen from a mezzanine, rattan pendants hung at different heights above guests sitting by a vine-covered window](/_astro/project-cafe.DiOGteOo_29Jb6Q.jpg)Thềm Chiều caféThềm Chiều café: a 3.6 m ceiling and twelve low pendants](/en/projects/them-chieu-cafe-nhieu-loc)