I decided I would eat supper before I finished up with the hanging of the pendant lights. As Efiwym, my wife, was preparing supper, I finished installing the second pendant light. I put on the new shade of the first pendant light and officially, we had pendant lights over the peninsula. Except, they would always…
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When we went to the home improvement store, we found the replacement shade, but Efiwym, my wife started having doubts about the color of the shade. She did not like the tan-colored shade. So, we looked at the different options. After much consideration, we decided to use the white glass shades we got with the…
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I just finished a project that surprisingly went quite well. So, I had time to work on the pendant lights for the kitchen. Working on two projects in one day was never heard of in my DIY history. The most important part of this project was laying out the pendant lights over the counter. And…
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That afternoon, Efiwym, my wife, and I went out to return the ridiculously priced wire nuts and get some drywall patching material and insulation spray foam. We went to the big box home improvement store to save 11%. I picked up what I needed and Efiwym found the pendant lights she wanted in clearance. (Read…
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I found a retrofit electrical box that had screws inside the box that you could use to fasten the box to the wall stud. When I got home, I was ready to install the box. I needed to separate and tape up the four bundles of wires to run them through the box. I tried…
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I compiled a list of electrical items I needed to install the switch for the pendant lights and to change all the outlets and switches in the kitchen and the dinette from the ivory to white. I thought white would look so much nicer against the new backsplash than the ugly ivory ones. After multiple…
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Efiwym, my wife, and I were discouraged that the pendant light we really, really liked was not available. Before we went home, we stopped at a couple more big box home improvement stores. We looked at their limited supply of pendant and overhead lights. We decided to go home, but first we needed to get…
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I already had in mine the type of pendant lights I wanted. A bronze-colored, single pendant light with a tannish glass shade. In fact, I already had it picked out. I showed Efiwym, my wife, the pendant from my phone. She said that she wanted to see it in person. However, it was not available…
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We made our trips to the two stone distributors and decided on the Icon Gold quartz. We visited Elizabeth the following weekend and finalized the purchase. We would see the template guy in 2 weeks to measure up the countertops. I have two projects related to this Non-DIY project. Tiling the backsplash and installing pendant…