Kitchen lights.

 I haven't updated in a while. Even though a lot needed to be done, none of it needed pictures taken. Lol. Lots of plumbing work done in the last few weeks.  

I did want to write this post to tell you what we did with the kitchen lighting. We were having a hard time working at night in the kitchen because the one little light fixture was not bright enough. So we needed to change that. 

The kitchen ceiling unfortunately had plaster coming away from the lattes so Dad made the decision to drywall the entire ceiling. He wanted to make something cool in the center of it. We played around with all kinds of ideas but ultimately he came up with this. 

See that light fixture?  Originally there was a fan there but in order to put this piece up, he had to put a temporary fixture in instead. This one came from the bathroom I think. It was not near bright enough. 

So once this wooden piece got put up we had to make a decision on what to do for lighting. Since the kitchen island will be under this, I wanted to put something in that would give lots of light straight across it.  Dad and I went to some furniture stores to get ideas. Light fixtures are so expensive!  Like 50 dollars for just one pendant fixture.  We wanted something that matched the style of the house. Something old looking but not outdated. 

Finally we went to Facebook for opinions.   

True to form, my lovely Facebook friends gave all kinds of ideas.  We looked on Pinterest again then went shopping! Our supplies cost us less than one pendant fixture and it was enough to make four!

Have you guessed what we decided yet?  If you guessed mason jar lighting, you are right!   So exciting!

I got to learn some electrical work to boot!  I was in charge of attaching the wires to the sockets and the jar lids and Dad did the attaching of the sockets to the actual electricity in the ceiling. 

Since it was night time when we finally got to the project and we had to turn off the breaker to the kitchen we ended up plugging a spotlight lamp into the bathroom and shining it into the kitchen.  We also had to resort to using the flashlights on our phones to see what we were doing.  

Finally they were done. Dad had some led light bulbs that we put in. These bulbs are perfect for mason jar lighting because they don't get as hot as normal bulbs.  

Now we had another decision to make. What to put in the holes to hide all those wires? Well that was an easy decision. We already had some drywall leftover so we cut pieces to fit. 

 This was taken just after we put the drywall in. Now we had to paint it. We could have painted it white like the rest of the ceiling but Dad had the thought that if we painted it the same color as the walls it would really make the piece "pop" and boy was he right!  

Now since I am behind in blogging our progress I have to say. The bathroom is done!  I haven't been able to get pictures yet because I wanted to have it cleaned up a bit but we finally have one room done!  And I went in on Tuesday and painted the last of the kitchen cupboards and Dad was in last night laying kitchen flooring so we are so close to finishing the kitchen as well!  I love the progress!  I am hoping to go over there today and get some pictures soo maybe there will be a new post tomorrow!