Let there be LIGHT.

Our kitchen is not actually finished, despite the fact that I act like it is and we use it on a regular basis. There are still things to do such as put in lighting, paint the ceiling, paint the eating area, and install a sliding door.

This weekend J's dad helped with the lighting. SO thankful for that because I was in no shape to do things like hold tools up to the ceiling or climb in the crawl space.  So first we had to figure out placement of lights. This sort of stuff drives me craaaazy.  Because I want it to be perfect but totally don't want to do the work. J cut out blue circles and we hung them up using the laser light level.

After much debating, they looked good and the drill with the circle blade came out. These are recessed lights, so holes need to be cut in the ceiling and then J needed to lower the lights in from the crawl space above. A little complicated, but nothing the Walls men couldn't handle.



Anddd it quickly failed. It kept moving across the ceiling. So a good old manual knife was used. And it was so succesful!

We had 6 recessed lights in the garage so we brought them in... and after more work than I could really show via pictures (okay fine I was folding baby laundry instead) the end result is this! All the lights are installed. The wiring still needs to be complete, but overall they look great! A little finishing of the ceiling paint and we'll have one more step of the kitchen complete.

One day this house will be done, one day.... At least it becomes more realistic every day.

PS I love this kitchen table and love the white chairs. We may have to get all of this pront, minus the big lights over the table because we aren't replacing our light fixture (for now anyway). Major love.