Let There Be Lights!

Friday was a full house – the electricians and Tom returned. The rest of the cabinet hardware was installed and the spackling completed. The broken tiles in the front hall (from the old radiator) were removed. The workers were kind enough to bring in the 2 huge, heavy boxes with the bistro table – they were in the garage. And it DID take 2 people to lift one of those boxes. I’m very grateful they were kind enough to do that as my husband and I would have struggled and one of us would probably have gotten hurt.

All of the high hat lights are installed and working. Eli set up the switches so we can just flow from one room to another without having to back-track to find a light switch. We will need Remedial Light Switches 101 also. I think I’m fairly solid on them now but I do sometimes miss and use a ceiling fan switch instead of a light switch. All of the high hats are LED lights with dimmer switches. At the start of all our discussions, I told the electricians I did not need to have a ceiling fan with a light, so they did not need to put in a switch for the light, only the fan. Of course all of the fans I liked had lights. I said fine, I don’t care, you don’t have to worry about it if it can’t be hooked up. Apparently ceiling fans now all get operated by remote controls, and a remote will over-ride anything on a switch. I have a working light on my kitchen ceiling fan. It’s so much nicer than what was there before that I could see myself using it. But it’s a halogen bulb. Given that the LEDs can all dim, and they are much more energy-efficient than the halogens, that light may not get much use. The fan, however, has been running since it first had power. It will probably be on non-stop until November.

Speaking of the ceiling fans, I LOVE the new one in the kitchen. I wasn’t sure it would work when I saw it in the box. It looked too large and too dark. But once I saw it up and running, I’m thrilled. It’s exactly the kind of look I wanted. We put back the ceiling fan/light that had been in the breakfast room. It’s white, and blends into the ceiling there, which I want. I’m trying to keep that room open and airy – eyes on the space, and not on the ceiling.

Friday night when all was calm and quiet, my husband and I stood in the kitchen, loving it. We started playing the “where shall we put x?” game. “What goes in this cabinet?” We agreed that we would put the roll-out garbage can under the sink, along with the recycling can, which has been under the sink all the time. If I ever hear back from the foreman about the custom work in the broom closet, I’ll let him know.