One House, One Couple, One Project at a Time: You light up my life

We have been going light crazy. In 4 months, we've changed 4 lights. It's amazing what a huge difference it makes. I love how it takes our cookie cutter house (nothing against cookie cutter houses, I love ours) and makes it a little more custom.

Eric and his dad, Bruce, tackled the light in the dining room the day we moved in, which was silly because the dining room sat empty until yesterday. This is probably my favorite light in the house because you can put candles in and eat by candle light. Now that we have a dining room table, we will be trying it soon!

Way before.

Dining room light.

Our next light project was the light above the sink. It was boring and small. We made it not so boring...and when I say we, I mean Eric. It was the easiest light to install in the history of installing lights. Thanks, Lowes for carrying such an awesome product. The mount screwed into the light socket and we were done. The hardest part was trying to decide how low we wanted it to hang.

Before. No hanging light.

Before

Super amazing light kit

After

Next, we moved on to the bedroom light. Our bedroom furniture is cherry wood. I'm not a fan. I like things to be light...especially in the bedroom. We got an amazing chandelier from Ikea. It's gives the room a very whimsical feel and it's not as harsh as the light we had in there before. I don't need a reason to stay in bed all day, but if I did, this light would be it. Another super easy light to install, but not because Ikea made it simple. It was easy because Eric has become an expert light installer. There are still some kinks we need to fix, like the base not sitting right up against the ceiling and the chain is way too long, but we don't have anything to cut it with, but it's still looks great.

And last, but certainly not least, we changed the stairway light today, because the first one was just plain boring. Now our stairway has some major character. Eric has an amazing ladder (and sometimes I think he likes the ladder more than he likes me :P) that made it super easy to work on the stairs. I did help in this installation, but only for 2 minutes. But someone has to take the pictures right?