Kitchen Updates, Bathroom Surprises and Some Paint

Sorry for the delay in updates, its been a busy day, with working on the house, watching half of the Penn State drubbing, and running errands. Today we updated the old-fashioned white cabinet/drawer knobs in the kitchen with brushed nickel styled ones. It makes a huge difference.

Also gone is the gold chandelier in the dining room that didn’t have any globes on the lights anyway. We got a brushed nickel chandelier from Lowes and installed it. This was my first real experience with wiring lights, nothing has caught on fire- yet. I’m pretty confident in it, since we had to wire it a total of three times since I kept forgetting to include various parts of the chandelier ON the chain itself. Had I read the entire set of directions instead of looking just at pictures, I could’ve saved an hour of work…

We also got a new vanity light for the bathroom, and when we took the old one down we discovered the junction box is offset to the left by about 3 inches. The previous light was a “box” styled solid back, and the new light is a simple circle mount that needs centered. I assume the offset box is due to a stud in the wall, but at any rate, I’m not moving the box. We decided to use this new vanity light for the master bathroom instead, and instead we found a similarly styled light but with a solid back for the hall bathroom.

We also did a lot of paint prep, including taping the master bedroom and bath, as well as painting the ceilings in the hall bath as well as beginning trim work. As always, check out the photos here: