The kitchen renovation at Crest Avenue continues. Last night the new recessed lights were installed by Ken the Electrician.
I took these pictures with my Android phone, so they are not the highest quality. Sometimes the pictures are good from this phone and sometimes not. But you get the idea. The center of the ceiling was where the previous single light fixture in the kitchen resided. That is the horrid oval circle. The smaller holes in the oval were where the supports were that held the light in place. They will be repaired and prepped for paint. The large hole in the center is the junction box. While we would have liked to have been able to completely cover this junction box with drywall and make it disappear entirely, that is not possible. Ken the Electrician told us that it would be best, in his opinion, to have easy access to this box. That is easily handled with a decorative cover plate.
These plates are available online or at your local big box home improvement center for minimal cost. Once this is installed and painted over, you will hardly notice it is there. Actually, I feel much safer knowing that there is access to this junction box.
And one final shot of the new lights from a different position. I cannot tell you what a difference these lights have made in the room. There are nine lights altogether. The light is completely different than it was from the center mounted single fixture. The room is bathed in light rather than having the light come from one source centered in the ceiling. The new light is warmer than the previous light. The old fixture emitted more of a "bluish" hue to the room. The recessed light is more golden.
The renovation continues. Repairs and paint to the ceiling as we have already discussed and a new backsplash. The new blinds from Just Blinds arrived yesterday, so they will go up this weekend. I will have lots of before and after pictures to share with you in a few days.
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| The new recessed lights. You will see in the background that I have already started taping around the ceiling in preparation for the next phase which will be a fresh coat of paint. |
I took these pictures with my Android phone, so they are not the highest quality. Sometimes the pictures are good from this phone and sometimes not. But you get the idea. The center of the ceiling was where the previous single light fixture in the kitchen resided. That is the horrid oval circle. The smaller holes in the oval were where the supports were that held the light in place. They will be repaired and prepped for paint. The large hole in the center is the junction box. While we would have liked to have been able to completely cover this junction box with drywall and make it disappear entirely, that is not possible. Ken the Electrician told us that it would be best, in his opinion, to have easy access to this box. That is easily handled with a decorative cover plate.
These plates are available online or at your local big box home improvement center for minimal cost. Once this is installed and painted over, you will hardly notice it is there. Actually, I feel much safer knowing that there is access to this junction box.
And one final shot of the new lights from a different position. I cannot tell you what a difference these lights have made in the room. There are nine lights altogether. The light is completely different than it was from the center mounted single fixture. The room is bathed in light rather than having the light come from one source centered in the ceiling. The new light is warmer than the previous light. The old fixture emitted more of a "bluish" hue to the room. The recessed light is more golden.
The renovation continues. Repairs and paint to the ceiling as we have already discussed and a new backsplash. The new blinds from Just Blinds arrived yesterday, so they will go up this weekend. I will have lots of before and after pictures to share with you in a few days.
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