Home remodel projects that (almost) fall on your head!

BunsenBurner
Sat, 15 Jan 2011 13:20:38 +0000

Lafalum, that is absolutely awful. Poor young man…

I hear you about being short on funds. We finally replaced the ugly brass, fake Tiffany-style lights throughout the house. The builder of this house gave us a light fixture allowance, and being short on funds, when we went to pick out what we wanted, we decided to divert 75% of the allowance towards the light fixture above the staircase (we picked a really fancy one because it would have been a nightmare to replace a chandelier hanging from 18 feet above floor), and use the other 25% to get cheapo stuff for the rest of the house with the intent to replace it years later. Yup, this reminds me - I will ask hubby about replacing our bathroom light as well. It is as high maintenance as they get (glass bowls that collect dust and dead insects) and uses 1 kilowatt of electricity! :eek: