Started painting shortly after getting home tonight, and immediately ran into a problem: I literally could not tell the difference between the dry blue paint from yesterday and the wet paint I was putting up tonight. Brianna wound up having to stand next to me and point with a stick to the spot I had to paint next. It was an...interesting exercise in teamwork and communication. (Nah, we did just fine)
I was hoping to be able to install the ceiling lights from IKEA tonight, and I managed to pull it off!
Brianna is pretty enthralled with the bright lights in the kitchen. Each fixture takes three bulbs, while the old ones only had two bulbs each, so overall brightness in the kitchen is increasing by fifty percent.
For these first three fixtures (which are all on the same switch), I managed to scavenge eight Cree light bulbs from around the house, and purchased one more from Home Depot on my way home from work (don't worry: my autographed bulb is still safe in its packaging). For the other two fixtures, I recycled the (half-as-efficient, mercury-containing, smoke-stained, dim-on-startup) CFLs that were in the original fixtures. I'm really hoping the Cree bulbs go back down to $5 a piece soon, but I'm not holding my breath.
Anyway, this is what the kitchen ceiling looks like now. All the stains and holes are gone, the light fixtures are all grounded properly, and Brianna is one step closer to her dream kitchen.
For comparison:
Those "shadows" around the light fixtures are mostly stains:
I was hoping to be able to install the ceiling lights from IKEA tonight, and I managed to pull it off!
Brianna is pretty enthralled with the bright lights in the kitchen. Each fixture takes three bulbs, while the old ones only had two bulbs each, so overall brightness in the kitchen is increasing by fifty percent.
For these first three fixtures (which are all on the same switch), I managed to scavenge eight Cree light bulbs from around the house, and purchased one more from Home Depot on my way home from work (don't worry: my autographed bulb is still safe in its packaging). For the other two fixtures, I recycled the (half-as-efficient, mercury-containing, smoke-stained, dim-on-startup) CFLs that were in the original fixtures. I'm really hoping the Cree bulbs go back down to $5 a piece soon, but I'm not holding my breath.
Anyway, this is what the kitchen ceiling looks like now. All the stains and holes are gone, the light fixtures are all grounded properly, and Brianna is one step closer to her dream kitchen.
For comparison:
Those "shadows" around the light fixtures are mostly stains:
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