Pendant lighting

My husband being a contractor gets into a lot of different renovations over the course of many years. One of the renovation he recently was doing was on a turn of the century Victorian house. Besides rewiring the whole house the lighting fixtures were very hazardous. The last time they were replaced was when electricity had been installed in the house itself. Maybe 80 years ago. Instead of having the lights all rebuilt which would have cost thousand and thousands of dollars he ended up going with pendant lighting. This saved so much time when it came to labor side of the project.