Only a couple days until company comes and since all the sanding makes a mess, plan was for today to be last day I'm having workmen in the house.. Upstairs work is done for now (l could spend days with work up there, but that's all for this year). The darkening of the hall woodwork didn't come out as well as we hoped, but I think looks a little better. The bedroom looks a whole lot better.
So then the question became what can I have them do in 1 1/2 days. The downstairs bathroom seemed possible so that's where we went next. The bathroom had vanity light bar and two lights on either side of the mirror - all turned on with pull chains. We really only used the two lights and the vanity light bar was awful looking (my opinion). The side lights had plugs in the bottom of them to plug in a hair dryer, shaver, or the fan (see the cord?). I'm using the same "cream-in-my-coffee" color that I used upstairs. We took out all the lights and replaced with one light bar, putting in a GFI recepticle, switch for the light, and recepticle near the fan. That one is raised as it's an outside wall and didn't want to open it up, so will put a small piece of electrical channel on wall. First problem was that the connection for the 36" light bar was about where the second light (from left) resided. At Lowes,
the only place anywhere nearby to get light fixtures, there weren't a lot of choices that would work (all uglier that what was already there) unless you wanted silver color which would not have gone well with the vanity mirror. The contractors had an idea though that we decided would work. So I bought a 4-light bronze-colored light bar. Long story short, they found a method to connect a light bar in the center over the mirror. Next problem, the hot wire that powers all the lights was behind the light on the left of the mirror. We had already decided the switch and GFI should be on the right since the door opens onto the wall on the left and would need to jump off this for the outlight by the window. Also when they disconnected the power for the left light in the bathroom, it disconnected power to the garage, side porch, the hallway lights, the TV, the desk (computers), and probably more that we don't even know about. Aren't old houses wonderful? "No problem," they said- and they worked it out. So 1/2 day was done and the electrical was ready; still needed to install light, close up the holes, and paint (hm turns out it's a problem to paint same day as putting up new plaster, so they are coming back Monday morning to finish that up) I'd never seen the inside of the wall, and it was interesting- see picture. No this isn't the new light bar; waiting on painting foe install of that.
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| State of bathroom until Monday |
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| Inside the Bathroom wall |
So then the question became what can I have them do in 1 1/2 days. The downstairs bathroom seemed possible so that's where we went next. The bathroom had vanity light bar and two lights on either side of the mirror - all turned on with pull chains. We really only used the two lights and the vanity light bar was awful looking (my opinion). The side lights had plugs in the bottom of them to plug in a hair dryer, shaver, or the fan (see the cord?). I'm using the same "cream-in-my-coffee" color that I used upstairs. We took out all the lights and replaced with one light bar, putting in a GFI recepticle, switch for the light, and recepticle near the fan. That one is raised as it's an outside wall and didn't want to open it up, so will put a small piece of electrical channel on wall. First problem was that the connection for the 36" light bar was about where the second light (from left) resided. At Lowes, the only place anywhere nearby to get light fixtures, there weren't a lot of choices that would work (all uglier that what was already there) unless you wanted silver color which would not have gone well with the vanity mirror. The contractors had an idea though that we decided would work. So I bought a 4-light bronze-colored light bar. Long story short, they found a method to connect a light bar in the center over the mirror. Next problem, the hot wire that powers all the lights was behind the light on the left of the mirror. We had already decided the switch and GFI should be on the right since the door opens onto the wall on the left and would need to jump off this for the outlight by the window. Also when they disconnected the power for the left light in the bathroom, it disconnected power to the garage, side porch, the hallway lights, the TV, the desk (computers), and probably more that we don't even know about. Aren't old houses wonderful? "No problem," they said- and they worked it out. So 1/2 day was done and the electrical was ready; still needed to install light, close up the holes, and paint (hm turns out it's a problem to paint same day as putting up new plaster, so they are coming back Monday morning to finish that up) I'd never seen the inside of the wall, and it was interesting- see picture. No this isn't the new light bar; waiting on painting foe install of that.
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