Lots of New Lights and a Fan

August 26, 2020

We’ve been hooked on the HGTV show House Hunters ever since we started looking for our new condo. The house hunters often act like a house is either “move in ready” (perfect) or a “total gut job”. I think there are another two categories: “I wouldn’t have chosen it but I can live with it” or “I can live with it for awhile.” The light fixtures in our new condo belonged to the second category. There was mostly long white track lighting which wouldn’t have been too bad despite some odd placement except for the yellow discoloration. At some point after we moved in the track in the entrance hall broke and that along with a desire to hang the handmade glass globe light that was my mother’s led us to a decision to call an electrician recently and replace almost all the light fixtures in the condo.

In normal times we would have gone from store to store to find the best fixtures but in these times the internet seemed like the way to go. My husband did most of the searching and called me in for consultation. We ended up with a great selection.

The new entrance light makes much more sense than the track lighting it replaced.

The new kitchen light is perfect for our long skinny kitchen and we can open all the cabinet doors without hitting the fixture which wasn’t the case with the track lighting.

The track lights over the dining room table were actually the oddest ones since they didn’t even reach to the middle of the table. This hanging light is a perfect match for our table. We couldn’t move the outlet so I found an attractive swag hook. We’re still working on getting the swag cord to hang right.

Even worse than track lights a “nipple light” used to be above the desk.

And maybe worse of all there was a very dated Hollywood bulb light fixture in the bathroom. In addition to looking one hundred times better this new fixture really lights up the mermaids especially the glass and beaded ones.

The light switch on this wall used to be connected to the entrance hall light which didn’t make sense. We thought this would be a perfect place for my mother’s globe.

There is one light we love in our condo. The light in our bedroom is in a ceiling fan. We had never had a ceiling fan before and now we are ceiling fan converts so we wanted one in the living room as well. There was a capped outlet in the open part of the room and the electrician was able to get it working again so we ordered a fan as well. I think it helps to fill the space in this oddly shaped room and it really helps to move the air conditioning to the couch area.