Light
About a month ago, T noticed that the ceiling in our dining room was a bit saggy. Turns out that we had a slow leak from the upstairs bathroom. We had the leak fixed, but the ceiling is still saggy. We’ve learned the hard way that neither of us is able to repair drywall in ceilings even halfway decently, so we’re going to have to get someone in to do it. That’s ok — we’ve got a long list of odds and ends that should be fixed and that we’re clearly never going to get to, so it makes sense to do them all at once.
Since several of the things on the repair list are patches from electrical work we had done 3 years ago, it occurred to us that we should get someone in to do another round of electrical work BEFORE we get all the walls patched and painted. So today we had new fixtures installed in the dining room and over the stairs. The old stair fixtures were just really poorly designed — the typical life span of a light bulb in them was about two weeks, and they were enough of a pain to change that we usually just managed in the dark. So we had new ones put in, with florescent bulbs that are supposed to last 8 years.
The problem is, with all this light, all the dings and dirt on the stairs show up really well.
Lesson learned: if you’re an indifferent housekeeper, dim light is your friend.
November 30th, 2006 at 9:17 am
LOL! So true! Dust doesn’t announce itself in dim light. Maybe it’s time for dimmer switches. 🙂
November 30th, 2006 at 7:42 pm
Over Thanksgiving my BIL changed out some overhead lights at my in-laws’ house making the back hallway MUCH brighter. Suddenly 20+ years of stains on the carpet bloomed into existence. I think that carpet will be replaced soon!