Occasionally a project deal comes along that can't be passed up. In this case, we decided the plastic, exposed bulb light fixtures on the porch have been a nuisance to both us and our neighbors, but we'd decided we didn't want to update the exterior until we'd finished painting. So, I took a little trip to the Habitat for Humanity store, actually it was more like a haulin'-ass-to-the-store trip because I'd realized that the Habitat store was closing in 15 minutes. After getting there I found two fixtures that I thought would work, but by all appearances they were straight out of Maddie Hayes' apartment. However, with my artistic vision, I saw a potential for a beautiful fixture for our porch. I assured my wife that this was a temporary fixture and that it would suffice until we purchased the fixtures we needed. After a little work this weekend, here are the before and afters:



In the end, my wife seems to think that the refurbishment went so well that we don't need to purchase new ones. I dunno, the Madera series from RH looks mighty awesome.

After it was all said and done:
The fixtures ended up costing us about $8 each, the fixtures were $4 each and after the cost of the glass and the paint it came to about $8.

Tags: Lighting, Exterior

Today I received the dining room sconces that we ordered from Restoration Hardware, after dinner and a bottle of wine I decided to hook them up. The sconces we ordered were from the RH Dillon series, which I am disappointed to say that the chandelier is discontinued. I think that Rejuvenation has a reasonable facsimile of the chandelier, except with the solid gold price tag. Either way the glass will be interchangeable. As far as other lighting goes we are looking at the Kichler under-cabinet Xenon lighting which I priced on ebay today at around $400. Not sure this is the route to go for us, anyone got any good ideas for xenon lighting?

Tags: DIning Room, Lighting