There wasn’t much work done on Friday contractor-wise. They did get the bottom molding on the wall cabinets added. Donna and I are very pleased with the results, makes a nice little accent. Kind of tough to see in tonight’s new photo, but trust me, it’s a nice touch. They also made sure all the base cabinets were locked down for the counter top measurement that was scheduled for late that afternoon.
The fellow from the granite shop showed up at quarter after four and spent the next 45 minutes guiding a laser beam a 1/2 above the base cabinets with a tablet. And then when he was through with that high tech procedure, he broke out a tape measure to double check.
Today I hung up our ceiling fan. It was kind of tricky and I almost didn’t leave myself enough wire to hook it up. When I first hung it on the eye bolt I screwed into the joist, the finish piece I added to cover the electrical box in the ceiling didn’t fully cover the hole in the ceiling. What at first seemed like a problem was really a non-issue as the small cover looked out of balance in comparison to the large motor on the caged fan. The solution to both problems was to buy an eight dollar 10″ Bronze Ceiling Medallion.
We then held up our chosen pendant light over the sink and while both of us loved the light when we bought it, now seeing it in its natural habitat, it was too big. We took it back to Home Depot where we got it and went to look at their other pendant lights for possible replacements. We picked something out we liked, but didn’t buy it because we still had to go to Lowe’s for another thing so we wanted to see what they had.
At Lowe’s we eyed several options and final settled on a nice frosted cylinder for the glass. But we couldn’t find a matching wired or pole topper that fit the shade. Turns out we never would, the glass shade we picked was mis-shelved, it was the type that went with wall mounted fixtures. The same shaped glass in gloss white finish made an acceptable back up choice. Even though the pendant won’t be hanging very low, we didn’t put it up for fear of being in the way for the counter top install next Friday.