Post-Electrician Update

The electricians came today for our lighting re-do project. Here are some "in the middle" photos (you'll see why I say that instead of "after" as you look below.


This shows the kitchen ceiling after the old box was removed. This is the strangest bit of sheetrock/drywall work I've ever seen - it was dropped about 1.5" from the ceiling.

You can also see the holes they had to make in the wall (why that big, though?) which will need to be repaired also.









This picture shows the hole in the ceiling now after the extra sheet-rock was removed. The electricians roughed in two places here for pendants (where there used to be just one for the fluorescent fixtures). Obviously, we will be having this fixed! After we have a ceiling, we can install pendant lights.







I know this is a little blurry - I'm not the great photographer in the family. :) But, this is without a flash to show the level of light in the kitchen at night with the new recessed cans turned on. It feels brighter in reality.










Moving now to the Living Room. This picture is looking up at the back of the room (farthest from the street). Notice the extra hole at the top of the photo; directly above is our master bath plumbing, so this fixture had to be moved over. Originally, the electricians left the fixture on the other side of the room in the place that's now a hole, but I knew the fact that they didn't align would bother me. So, I asked them to move the fixture to make it align, which they did easily & cheerfully. This means two holes in the living room ceiling, but we're going to have someone come in to fix the kitchen ceiling anyhow. (Initially we feared that there would be a 12-15 foot long by 1 foot wide strip cut thru the ceiling, which didn't have to happen - so two holes aren't that bad!)






Another blurry photo, but it's just to show level of light at night, without the ceiling fan light turned on (and without a flash on the camera).

Now, if I could just figure out how to arrange the furniture! This room is long & narrow, with a large window at the front and french doors/windows at the back. One long wall has the fireplace and the opposite long wall is trisected by the door to the kitchen and the front entry.

Add the fact that we have two sofas (his/hers from pre-marriage), and the need to somehow use both the TV & fireplace as focal points, and you can see our trouble. I've been playing with shapes on graph paper all night. I had to stop before I got any more annoyed! I wish there were a way it would all fit without looking cluttered, but that's going to be awfully hard!