blinded by the light
revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night...the house is now awash in light, and a cool breeze. Both of our new fans have been installed, one twice. Before you ask what we screwed up, it's important to note that we screwed nothing up. We didn't even have an injury on this project....so there!
The fan in the living room proved to be too much light...ok, so the lights on the fan, the fan itself doesn't generate light. see, when you get all picky about semantics it takes me a month to get over it and update the blog. so anyway, the light was too bright in the living room for casual living (our patented Martha Stewart repellant). it's great for reading or working, but too much for reclining on the couch. The previously installed remote unit only gave an on/off option. We decided to pull that out, run a little three wire (which went thankfully smooth) and add a dimmer switch. It really works nicely and installation was a breeze (heh!).
Ultimately it looks like we didn't need the remotes anyway. for some reason it looked like the remove would detach from the wall and provide a little hand held unit that could be used from the couch or wherever. That seemed like a great idea, get in bed, then turn off the light (no clapper thank you). unfortunately the remote doesn't detach and the one that actually does looks a little bit like a fisher price spaceship. Really the only reason to do the remote is if you can't get new wire to the fan, or in our case if you don't read well and have thrown away the packaging and aren't going to eat $40 to keep the remote and do a dimmer as well.
so anyway, we have all of the lights and fans in downstairs and they look really nice. the ceiling is painted and that looks nice too...if you lie flat on your back and look only at the ceiling, sheilding the walls from your view.
Another project off the list.
By the way, yesterday marked 6 months in the house. Unfortunately the answer to the question on everyone's mind is no. no, we're not living upstairs yet...
by the way, if you're wondering where that first part came from I've got some good classic rock for you as homework.
posted by Our House @ 7:17 AM
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