First up is the bedroom. I won't tell you how long it took to put that lampshade together. But there is overhead light! In the bedroom! That you can turn on with a light switch! The installation of this light, and all the outlets in the room means that we no longer have an extension cord running across our main hallway. It had been there so long that neither of us even noticed it anymore, but I certainly notice that it's gone! The downside of the overhead light is that now I can't pretend that the bedroom walls don't need another coat of paint.
This was my surprise when I got home from the gym on Sunday. The kitchen is now absolutely glowing. We've gone from one flourescent bulb that took a good five minutes to fully warm up to five super bright halogens that turn on right away. Oh, and in case that's not enough, Erik also installed three under cabinet lights. All that light makes the kitchen seem HUGE!
And the piece de resistance...another surprise when I got home from the gym tonight...we finally have lights on the other wall of the main that aren't bare bulbs! We went to Leroy Merlin today and returned 160 euros worth of stuff, including the sconces we had originally chosen. It was just getting too complicated to figure out how to install them. Anyway, we figured out a solution, that you can kind of see if you look closely--the white plastic circles at the base of the lights are covering up the boxes that the cables have to come out of. I have no idea why stores can even sell fixtures that don't fit properly over these boxes, but I'm glad we were able to figure something out. Now we have to paint the white parts, and fix the plaster on the channels above. These new lights are much less forgiving than the old bare bulb.
And I haven't been spending all my time at the gym! Today I was back in the bathroom, priming all the walls with moisture resistant paint, and painting the radiator. Fun! Hopefully by tomorrow afternoon it will be all white.
1 comment:
Hmm. Would that be Manfred or Bruce who is helping? Anyhow, the lights look amazing! Nice design and fine craftsmanship.
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