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

Lafalum84
Sat, 15 Jan 2011 13:05:10 +0000

At our parish rectory, a young priest was sitting at his desk in his room when a heavy metal (wrought-iron?) light fixture came loose and crashed down on his head. He had severe head injuries. This was several years ago and I don’t know that he was ever able to return to his job as a priest, as the blow injured the speech area of his brain.

When we moved into our newly constructed house 17 year ago, we were short on funds. We bought large, basic, plain mirrors for the bathrooms and H attached them using screws and fastners. We also bought cheap towel racks and light fixtures, figuring when we had more money we’d replace them. Fast-forward 17 years, we still have ugly towel hangers from Walmart that look like they belong in a 1970s summer camp, and cheap lights over them. We finally replaced the stuff in the downstairs powder room, but the 2 upstairs full baths… :(