Robyn's New Chandlier and 3 Way Dimmer

New Kitchen Chandelier, it takes six bulbs and they are all 'dimmable' LED bulbs. Each bulb uses only 7.5 watts but is as bright as a 40 watt incandescent bulb.

The light is a crisp white light although that is difficult to capture in a picture.

We also added a 3 way dimmer for the chandelier. First time I wired a 3 way dimmer.

Dimmer has a cool LED night light when it is switched off.

Upstairs bathroom with Marble floors now.

This is for our existing house which is now sold, but you can get an idea of how it looks now. The floors alone set me back quite a bit, but they reflect so much light through our new window that it just so wonderful to wake up in the morning. They are mirror finished as well so you can actually see yourself reflected in them. :)

It was a lot more fun then I thought it would be to refinish this.





For reference, this is what we started with:

Work continues

You probably remember this: http://shawnx.blogspot.com/2006/02/demolition-begins.html See below for what it looks like now. :) Next up, we have to sand, then prime and paint. Then we have to screw down an additional subfloor so we can lay our new tiled floor out.

I'll post some pictures this weekend which is hopefully when we will finally complete this.

Barbeque at Dan and Jude's

Saturday was a blast. We went to Dan and Jude's for a barbeque and saw Tanya, Mark, Aleah and even Cassie made here return today. Judy had prepared an excellent bean and corn salad that tasted great while being a little break from the normal salad with dinner routine. We also snagged some fresh basil from their garden! (I love Basil!)

Above you can see part of the kids Water fight. They threw Water Ballons and things really got crazy when the uncontrolled crazy daisy sprinker came under the control of Ryan the Terminator. (I filled all of the water ballons hehe)

We also spent some time reminiscing about the olden days and everyone had some ice cream with fresh blueberries added. The remainder of the evening passed quickly. I watch Aeon Flux, (GREAT movie btw), LOVED it, then I played some DDO before retiring.

Sunday was a busy day. We had breakfast at home and woke up to a beutiful morning... no dogs barking, windows all open, AC off... wow... I have to say it was a great day. We had breakfast at home and then we started working. First we had some friends over while I was cutting sheetrock for the upstairs bathroom from hell project, so I got a bit a break before we decided to replace our bedroom light with the 'Most complicated ever Ceiling fan/Light kit'. Anyways, someone suggested that they could put up the ceiling fan for us in 15 minutes, 3 hours later they left and the fan was still lying on my bed. Luckily Robyn's dad stopped by to fix their wiring and screw stripping madness and I was able to complete the project. It looks great.



Tuesday update: I posted a picture of the first ceiling fan in our bedroom. Monday Robyn, Ryan and I put the second one in as well so I'll have to post atleast one more picture of that. We did the second one considerably faster taking us only an hour and a half. Looks great and we discovered quite accidentally that the lights have a DIMMER switch. I'll fix the top trim and post some more pictures later.

Demolition Begins

Heres a picture AFTER we destroyed the walls but before we took the glass block out. The floor and ceiling are also destroyed now if your wondering hehe. We have since put in a slider window and purchased the material to finish the job. (Which now that I have some time off I may get started on.)

Lots of work in bathroom remodeling... Lots of stinky work. LOL. I'll upload some pictures when we finish so you can compare the two.




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