New Bathroom Light!

We have wanted to replace the light fixture in the bathroom for some time now, but not bad enough to go out and buy one...it just a light and this one was working just fine.  We had a storage building here in town and a couple of weekends back we decided to take everything out of storage and find a place for it here or get rid of it (I'm all for the getting rid of it part).  We are always looking for ways to save some money and the storage building was a easy decision.  Anyways, we found a light fixture that we were going to use for the closet but chose not to because we thought it hung down to low for a closet, so we decided to use it for the bathroom and get that new light we wanted.

As you can see the light is not centered in the room and it hangs right over the sink. It's almost as if it's a wall light more than a main light source, but it is the only light in the room.

The new light is now centered in the room and has 3 bulbs opposed to the old fixture which had only one.  It's much brighter in the room now, but it's going to take some time getting use to the light source coming from behind us, instead of right above us.  I should say it's going to take Tara some time, she's the one who uses it for her makeup.  Installing this new light was not a snap for me.  For a brief moment (when I say brief moment, I mean a couple of hours), I forgot how electricity works and had a problem rewiring the fixture.  Finally I thought about what I was trying to do and how it has to be done and wired it up right and now it works perfect.

No More Cold Closet!

Back in October of 09' we removed a bathroom that was in horrible shape and decided to replace it with a closet for the four of us.  This is the first "room" in the house that we have completely finished (yes we are calling the closet a room, because any victory over this house we will take) or so we thought.  We forgot to reinstall the vent, which means I didn't think we would need it in such a small space...I was wrong.  Last winter that closet was like a ice box, so we decided to add the vent back so we could dress in a warm closet.

So today we decided to install our new vent and we couldn't have picked a better day to do a indoor project.  It's been raining all day and it's not too cold so it made getting up in the attic pleasant.  The picture above is our closet without the vent and the pictue below is with the vent which we're already enjoying...it's nice and toasty in there now.  Getting dress in the mornings will be so nice.

So now we can offically say the we have finally completed a room in our house and can cross this project off our to do list!  Click on the vent to see our installation...it took about 35 minutes to complete, makes me wish we had done it sooner.  Oh well...moving on!





Snowy Sunday!

Today it snowed at the green house...it rained most the night and turned into snow around 10 this morning.  It snowed really hard for about 5 hours and left between 4 and 5 inches on the ground.  The girls have been bouncing off the walls wanting to go play in it.  We finally went out this afternoon and they had a blast!  Click on Mal to see all our snow pics.