Shedding a little light on the subject
Shedding a little light on the subject…whatever I’m doing in the kitchen that is. I got tired of the $10 Lowes florescent (and the shadows) so I decided it was time to update the lighting a bit. I really wanted whoever was washing my dishes to be able to see what they were doing (yes, that’s usually me but a boy can have dreams right?) and I didn’t want it to feel so sterile. Saturday morning I went to Lowe’s and started with my little project… I decide to put two 50w Halogen recessed can over the sink, replace the center light with some directional Halogens, and add under the cabinet lights to bright the counters a bit.
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- Cutting the hole for the new light
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- Marking where the new lights go
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- messy kitchen…
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- Cutting the holes for the lights
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- Drilling through the joist
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- Running the wires
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- Installed new ceiling box (you can see the simple hole the builder left)
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- Wiring up the recessed cans
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- New cans installed…
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- New Halogens in the center
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- Ha – they actually worked (I did graduate from NCSU)
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- Yeh, this one works too
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- Under the cabinets are a must
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- View from the living room
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- The “new” kitchen
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- Trying to find the kitchen’s best side…
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- Um… mood lighting…I mean for one day :-)
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Now to decide whether to paint the green you see beside the oven – I haven’t decided if its too dark yet or not. Its really coming down to one of those “paint a wall and see” decisions.