New Lights

Saturday was another day full of home projects around here. It started with Justin loading up a bunch of trash from the porch that we had collected from the many demo projects and taking it to the dump.

When he got home, I ran to Menards to get some supplies for the afternoon project...changing out a bunch of light fixtures.

Justin started in the hallway upstairs. The previous owners had these horrible light fixtures that are maybe supposed to look like oil lamps...and they give off just about as much light as oil lamps.



So, Justin got to work switching those out.





The new hallway lights are simple but they have made a huge difference both in appearance and illumination!



Justin then moved on to the bathroom fixtures. The previous owners had these old school globe fixtures that only housed one light bulb each. So, again, it was fairly dark in the bathroom in certain areas. We ended up even taking the globe off the one in the center of the room several months back because it offered more light.





And here are the new fixtures.





You can see in both the pictures of the hallway and the pictures of the bathroom that we are in the middle of repainting those areas as well. I spent a good portion of last weekend painting and I just have to go touch up a few areas and then replace all the trim.

We still have some light fixtures to change out downstairs but the upstairs looks so much better!

And on a side note (and because I have a hard time not including some pictures of at least on of the boys), Garytt has started "parking" his toy trucks, cars, buses, etc. on our radiator. In fact, just last night when it was time to go to bed, I asked him to put his trucks away and he went and "parked" them there and then waved good-bye to them...so cute!









After a long day of work, it was time for all of us to park it and relax!