Home Repairs (continued)

A few months ago I mentioned that we had a few minor home repairs we want to do to our house before we put it up for sale in 2011.

We painted just about all of the interior walls and baseboards before we moved in; the only ones we didn't paint are the bathroom and bedroom in the basement. Once the weather warms up we plan on taking all the doors off the frames and painting them as well. Hero replaced the locks on the exterior doors. In November, Hero replaced the kitchen sink faucet and installed the remote control for the garbage disposal. In recent weeks Hero has begun to replace light fixtures. He replaced the light fixture on the back patio with a motion sensored light, the two lights on the garage with motion sensored lights. He is working on the front porch light, but he needs to get some wood to finish that one because the sensor light doesn't fit properly against the house. (I'll get pictures of the front outside lights when he is done with that.)

Then this weekend he replaced the light above my kitchen sink and the light in my kitchen. I wish I had taken a picture of the light in the kitchen before he took it down. It was just your standard fluorescent light, only we broke the cover when we painted. The light cover cracked when we took it down to paint and then someone stepped on it, making it impossible to hang back up.

This is the ceiling after Hero took the old fluorescent light down. He had to patch the two screw holes that held it in place and then paint because the new light is slightly smaller.

Side view of my new kitchen light. I am not usually into the modern look, but when we saw this light we knew we had to have it. Now this light has set the tone for the rest of the lights....

The new light as I stand under it.

The old light above the kitchen sink. All we really needed to so was by a new shade for it. The glass shade that was original to it was another fatality of our painting adventure. We decided to change it out because we felt that if we replace all the other fixtures for the brushed nickel look and left this one undone, it would look just like that; undone.

My handy man

The new light above the kitchen sink.

Next month we hope to begin changing all the rest of the lights....Hero says they are easy to change out. We would like to put a ceiling fan in our room and possibly the family room, then there is the chandalier to replace in the dining room. The more expensive lights like those may take us a few months to change.

Once the lights are all changed the next big project is to order shutters and have them installed.