My Old House
Issues and Events involving our Home in Independence, Missouri
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Just thought I’d take a moment to upload the photos of the two light fixtures that my wife purchased for the kitchen. She ordered / bought these new from Rensen’s House of Lights, here in Independence.
Personally, I think these are okay. I’m not as excited about them as my wife is. Oh, the light they give off is pleasant enough. I just would have liked to see some actual antique fixtures used.
Greetings All !
Well, the wheels of progress are once again turning in our kitchen.
Shortly after Christmas, I had searched the Internet for reproduction tin ceiling manufacturers, especially any one that could recommend somebody to install one for us. (I just didn’t trust MasterCraft to do the job correctly and I certainly do not trust myself on this.)
The people we would choose to go with would not only be giving our kitchen ceiling a makeover, they’d also be installing a tin backsplash in the kitchen as well.
I found American Tin Ceilings. The referred to ZERO installers in the state of Missouri, so I checked Kansas… and found Scott and Lisa Runnels of “Nani’s Impresa” in Lawrence, Kansas.
I left them …
Greetings All !
OK, so this weekend, I finally decided to do a task that’s been waiting on me:
The previous owners had a huge Hunter ceiling fan installed in the Dining Room… for some reason. (Not sure why. Personally, I’m not too fond of having my food automatically cooled!)
My wife had purchased a used chandelier (it’s relatively new…. NOT an antique) a few months back. So it was now time for me to take out the ceiling fan and put in the chandelier!
Unfortunately, I had to REPAIR the chandelier first!
Somehow… in the process of getting it home and storing it for a few weeks, we broke an arm off of it!
Now, this isn’t one of those …
My wife’s friend, Donna, and her husband, Steven, came over tonight.
It turns out my wife had complained to Donna about the lack of good lighting and outlets surrounding the basement laundry area. Donna then drafted Stephen, an electrician, to come over tonight and add in some light fixtures.
Stephen installed two additional light-fixtures in the basement. One fixture has a single electrical outlet, so my wife Terry will now be able to plug her iron into that to do her ironing. Both additional fixtures are now rigged to turn on at the same time that the primary basement light turns on.
Stephen also took a look at our front door knob / lock mechanism. Now, …
Well, today was a work-day for me.
But while I was gone, a friend of my wife, Donna… and her husband, Steven, came over.
You see, it turns out, Steven actually did some of the electrical rewiring on our house back in 1983. But he admits that it was mostly external / outside wiring that he did.
He looked into that “shocking socket” problem we have been having in the NW bedroom.
I don’t have the firm details, but Terry tells me that he “did something to put in Ground” at both the light socket and at the ceiling light fixture itself.
He also gave her a shopping list, telling her to go get a few things from the hardware store. …
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