All of the Lights

My bestie (who I would totally insult right now but am in fear of losing my one and only reader) was giving me a hard time for not posting for a month. I think it was mostly because she was tired of hearing me complain about how bored I am. Finally, she said you need to blog! You can thank her...

When I first moved into the house one of the worst things in here (there are OH, so many) were the freaking ugly, disgusting light fixtures. Every single fixture was horrendous. I wanted to rip them out immediately and replace all of them. My mom encouraged me to do it because she said they are pretty easy things to replace. Coming from my mother, that doesn't mean much. She builds walls, tiles, does minimal plumbing, etc. so her credibility on "easy" projects is very low. However, I thought I might as well try to put in new ones because the oldies were really just so horrible.

I called her one evening to come over and help.  I believe the first one we removed was the master bedroom ceiling fan.  It was one of those black and gold, early 90s fans (I think my brother had the exact same one in his room). We turned the electric off and carefully took the thing down. I realized at that moment how truly easy it was to remove them.  We then had to put the new one in.  Now, I will tell you that doing this was a learning that the ceiling fan box that claims, "Installed in 10 minutes!" is clearly for the experienced electrician, doing this every single day, and is in a race to complete it with the failing result of being murdered. I'm pretty sure it took us about 2 hours to install it.  The thing is that it's a fairly easy install, it's just exhausting holding something heavy up over one's head. Plus, you have to put the right piece on at the right time or you have to take the whole damn thing apart which may or may not have happened once or twice during the process.

The other bad thing about ceiling fans is that there isn't one I have found that is actually really our style. All of them are pretty ugly so our happiness level with the result is moderate at best. But it's leaps above the previous fan!

The Before Fan (a little too late, the blades were thrown out! bonus is a mom cameo!) and After Fan:




This is our guest room.  This old fan was so good. When you turned the fan on the strings would hit against the light globe to a nice rhythm. Also, the center of the blades were some sort of wicker! The new fan we are thinking about getting different globes for. They give off a weird yellow cast.

Before and After:



This is our guest room and our favorite of the okay ceiling fans.



Our hallway. The first non-ceiling fan fixture installation!




Aaaannnnd the biggest change, and our favorite by far! The ceiling fan blades were pointing downward! The after light took us forever to pick out but I still LOVE this light!