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November 25, 2007
Let There Be Light
The new house was built in the 80's - when they apparently had an aversion to in-ceiling lighting. So while many of the rooms have at least a single "can" light - a number, including the master, the living room, and the family room (read: pool table room) have only switched outlets. Additionally, there are exterior lights that throw horrible glare bombs and are begging to be replaced.
So we spent some time today looking for lighting - both online and in stores like Lamps Plus and Seattle Lighting.
The first observation is that lamps are basically boring. Until they're horribly expensive, then they're not boring.
While making precious little progress on interior lighting, we did manage to find a mostly boring line of Dark Sky lights that we were about ready to buy, 'till they told us they didn't have them in stock and we'd have to come back Tuesday. We left, figuring if we had to order them, we might as well order them online and have them shipped to us, rather than to a store.
Unfortunately, while browsing online, Dawnise found lights that she and I like a lot more - they're less boring - which means they're way more expensive.
Posted by dberger at November 25, 2007 8:37 PM