Window Shopper

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Over the last month or two, I believe that I have mentioned a few times that our house needs more light. We have close to the darkest paneling, I think. Thought my eyes were closed the other day. It makes the house so dark that there are days that we have to go to the light fixtures, turn on and open our eyes just to see that we are in the house. Okay, that’s pretty bad but you do know what I mean, right?

All I want to do is look around and find some ceiling light fixtures that provide more light than what we have. I realize that it would be better to change the paneling but that’s a huge job and changing lighting fixtures would likely be easier, don’t you think? Well, I am now going to have to think about it a lot. Each of these things would be time consuming..the thing I have the littlest amount of in my day. ACK! Okay, maybe the home lighting problem isn’t the biggest but it certainly is a problem that we need to deal with someday soon. Sigh.

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One of the things that has bugged me about our house is that it has little in the way of lighting. Coming down from the ceiling in the living room is a fan with lights hanging below it. Although it’s not a bad fixture, I really want to change it to something with more illumination capabilities. Our house has dark paneling so the ceiling light is a bit muted.

In the kitchen, it’s a florescent light set and it does have enough light but not enough for the rest of the house, obviously. What I thought I would end up doing is shopping for Progress Lighting because I really need to have more light and soon. We are coming into the winter time. A dim house is not a great place. Groan.

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My parents remodeled our kitchen one time when I was a teen, I think. It was gruesome. It was not a big kitchen to start with and then they started tearing out everything. I guess it was because the kitchen cabinets weren’t going to match the wallpaper and the paint that was going up in the near future.

Eventually, the whole thing got worked out. The very new kitchen cabinets were very nice and the gleaming, shiny new cabinet hardware was especially great. The whole kitchen looked absolutely fabulous after it was all said and done. But I do not want to go through the mess of that again. If we move into a house that needs that much work, I say we get a room and let the repair guys have at it!!!

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One of the things that bugs me about our neighborhood is that the street lights are not enough for our street. In fact, it’s downright dark where we live because the street lights are at each end of the street and we live smack dab in the middle, in the dark. We tried to help it along with those cheap lights that you can buy and put in the ground lining the driveway but that did nothing for us at all. Those are solar lights. If we have a dark or gloomy day, no solar lights at night.

So, we wanted to look around at the landscape and find a way to do some creative landscape lighting. This isn’t going to be all that easy for us because our particular landscape is downhill all the way. That could be good, I suppose, but it’s been a pain so far. You could trip and roll for a block, if you didn’t watch out. I have no idea what we will eventually end up with but it has to be better than a couple of solar lights that the mailman runs over each time he shows up in the driveway.

Happy Shopping to ya!

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Are you a “do it yourself” person? That makes you a DIY. Do you have one in your home? My husband is a DIY and he recently tiled a floor in one of our bedrooms. It looks great!! But he could not have done it right had he not had some information on the job in the first place since he had never done that type of work before in his life. You know the old saying “knowledge is power“? It is so true. How can you do anything to improve your home without it? You can do anything with knowledge.

The place to wander into is DoItYourself.com. I was looking at a tutorial page on drywall. This page is just the beginning but it gives you a whole lot of information about drywall that, if you have never done it before or you want a refresher, is going to show you exactly how to do it. It even has a video on the page to teach you the basics. And that’s only the project planning and preparation stage. This site is going to walk you through the whole process.

I want you to know that I would want that kind of information before I ever started such a job. Just remember, they have home projects for lots of things. They have articles galore, 100 forums and DVDs on all sorts of topics that will help you get that home improvement done right.

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