Trudging along trying to meet this year’s house goals has kept me busy. One of the goals is to de-boob this place. Wait…let me rephrase that. The goal is to get rid of any and all boob lights in the house. You can quit covering your eyes now.
I’m re-doing my craft room. Oops. That wasn’t on the list of goals. Don’t tell my husband. Lots of other things are going on in there, but I wanted to use the opportunity to get a new light. I found THE one at Lowes, but they only had the floor model.
Conversation at Lowes…
- Me: Okay. Well, will you sell me the floor model?
- Mr. Lowes: It’s really dusty and dirty.
- Me: Ok. So what will you take off for it?
- Mr. Lowes: I can take off 10%, but it might be a little banged up.
- Me: I’ll take it!
- Mr. Lowes: Sigh…I’ll go get a ladder then.
I’m no mathematician, but I’m pretty sure he gave me more than 10% off! Good job, Mr. Lowes! And he was right—she was a little banged up on one side, but I was totally ok with that. We’re talking a craft room here, ya know?
My father in law was coming up to help with the other stuff in the room, so I thought it would be a good time to do a tutorial on how to change out a light fixture. But then things started to go downhill. Quickly. My first several pictures were stolen from me since my FIL took down the old fixture without me knowing. Gads. Then, I realized that my 5-foot tall MIL wouldn’t be able to help my FIL hold the light fixture so I could take pictures. Double gads.
So here’s the best I have. A random picture tutorial of how to change a light fixture. Kind of like Ikea instructions!
These pictures were taken “blindly” with the wrong hand. I was laughing. A lot.
My MIL took this picture. I believe I was whining about my arm burning at this point. Then we started laughing and almost dropped the whole thing.
Aaaannd the final step. What do you mean, “Where’s the tutorial?” Weren’t you paying attention?
Well….even if you weren’t, here’s the grand finale. She’s pretty beautiful, eh?
I’m pretty much in love with it. I walk by, look at it, smile, come back, turn the light on, walk around it, leave the room, come back, turn the light off, smile at it and repeat.
If you’d like a legitimate tutorial, check out my friend Brittany’s! She actually knows what she’s doing.
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fantastic light and a GREAT deal! i bought a light fixture at lowes on saturday for $23, marked down from $92. i have NO idea where to put it, but for that price….i’ll find a spot!
Wow. That is an amazing light, and what a deal!
looks great! i love that last line, how you turn the light on and walk around, turn it off, repeat. whenever i do a change, i do the same thing. i revisit the awesomeness a few (million) times a day:). makes me all happy inside.
Now I look at the fixture over my dining table and think “boob”. It was an interim fixture that has been up at least 5 years. I have tolerated it because it is galvanized and has a cage over it, but it is on the chopping block.
Don’t you just hate those boob lamps? I’m in the process of replacing ours too. The previous owners even put one on the basement stairs wall, as a SCONCE!!
I like that one from Lowe’s. Very fetching.
Now that I’ve heard the “boob” reference, that is all I can think of when I see every single light in our house. I can see replacing the bedroom lights with something beautiful and stylish like this, but what would you put in a hallway or a family room? I’m going to have to keep an eye out for something. Any suggestions would be nice.
I love the new lamp so much I want one. Pity I am in the wrong country (England) so not a hope of that happening. As for the maths, yeah you got better than 10%. Maybe they just couldn’t be bothered to do the maths properly.
I love your blog so much I have added you to my Google Reader so I don’t miss any posts.
Thank you so much, Andrea! I imagine that is frustrating when you know we don’t offer the same stores over there. I’ll bet you could find something similar though! Thank you for visiting! I’m glad to “meet” you!
I just love that light! I will have to take a gander at it the next time I’m in Lowes. Keep up the good work – I love reading your blog! I was excited to hear you were from MI as well and I have to admit that I love your town’s High School (was there 2 years ago for a State Gymnastics Meet).
Liz in Freeland
That’s so cool, Liz in Freeland. 🙂 Glad to meet you! Thank you for stopping by!
Looks great! Much better.
melinda
Thank you, Melinda!
I love it! much better than a ‘boob’ light – LOL!
It’s not easy taking tutorial photos while wiring a light. LOL! I love your light fixture, especially the price!!! We have a similar one that cost $125, so you got a deal girl.
Thanks for the link to my tutorial. 😉
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I laughed reading you were de-boobing your house. hahahaha I HATE those lights, and the previous owner was a HUGE fan of them. I really like that new fixture, it looks super swanky! 🙂
Oh I agree that light looks amazing and what a deal. On top of that what a blessing you had such good help installing it!!
I heard Sarah Richardson’s assistant, Tommy, call it a boob light on HGTV and I can not longer even LOOK at those lights. I think Lowes has a great selection of “non boob” lights. I am putting the school house lights in our hallway, we also have them in our kitchen. They are pretty, they do the job and I don’t have to look at boobs everywhere!! 🙂
Kim @ mylifeincolorblog.com
She is beautiful! I will add, it’s not easy to take pics while installing a light fixture while on a ladder. LOL Great improvement over the B-light. I can’t even bring myself to say it. LOL
Ha! Thank you, Sandra! Come on…you can say it. 🙂
Looks great! I would love to change out all my boob lights in my home. I really like the one you chose and what a good deal! I need to start looking around my local home improvement stores.
I am a new follower and found you through the Haven Conference. I wish I could get there it looks wonderful.
I wish you could get to Haven too, Lana! Maybe next year!
Thank you! I’ve been looking for a light for my son’s room just like this one, but our Lowe’s doesn’t carry it in stock, so I hadn’t seen it. Just got online and ordered it. 🙂 You scored an awesome deal and it looks great!
That’s awesome, Dee! I’m so glad you were able to find it!
Thanks for sharing. Sometimes things like this can be so scary when you don’t know what you’re doing.
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