Our first item of business was to get rid of our popcorn ceilings. This proved to be a very long and messy process. Since it was so incredibly messy, we don’t have too many pictures of this part. Also, most of the in-progress photos were taken with my phone, so the quality isn’t great.
This picture was taken after the popcorn had been scraped and a professional had retextured our ceiling. The next item of business was to change the kitchen lighting from track lighting to recessed can lights. Additionally, we added a light above the kitchen sink with its own switch. Special thanks to Mitchell for his help on this part!
These are the housings for the lights after we got them wired and installed. We ran into an issue though with the length of the bulbs. We selected a 5 inch housing, which, unbeknownst to us at the time of purchase, are used for commercial halogen lighting. If you try to use your standard floodlight bulbs in these they stick out a couple of inches, as shown in the picture below.
So, having already cut the holes and wired the light housings in, our choices were to put 5 halogen bulbs in our kitchen (which cost about $7 apiece, yet would have produced more than double the light power, and would have probably heated the entire house) or find a way to get a standard bulb to fit. I elected to put my creativity to the test. Using sheet metal, duct tape, and tiny screws, I concocted these little numbers, which extended the neck of the trim. Special thanks to my dad’s wood chisel, which was destroyed in the process of punching holes into the sheet metal. I owe you one, dad.
Check these puppies out—pure innovation. Also notice in this picture the lovely countertops that we later replaced. Erin appropriately named these the “purple dream”.
Fuzzy picture, but we got the recessed lights figured out at last! I’ll post a better picture later.
Okay, there is much more to talk about, but I’m realizing that all the progress pictures in one post would be rather overwhelming. More to come….
4 comments:
Yeah I remember all of that, those first stages were the worst. Thanks for the shout out, but I feel like i really didn't do much.
Wow, so ingenious, Milan. I would have had no clue how to rig those lighting extensions. Looks like you picked up a thing or two from Mr. Fix-it himself, our father.
Nice work.
Looking good! Can't wait to see more pictures. I love Colorado. What part do you guy live? My sister Tara lives in Aurora. Love it there!
you got rid of the purple dream?! that was the best part.
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