All Sorts of Lighting

I haven't posted here in a while, but today seems like something I can comment meaningfully on. :-)

Today was the lighting installation day.

We replaced all of our outdoor porch lights (two in the front, two in the back). The old ones were nasty, rusted out, barely attached, filled with bugs and filth, and had barely functioning motion detectors that shut off when you were there, and blinded you as you were coming in.

The new ones are just simple lights from Home Depot, elegant black fixtures, a bit larger than the old ones (I think more in scale with the house), but importantly: they're installed securely, they're simple, and they turn on and off with a switch, rather than on their own whim. :-)

We discovered a couple things about the house when we were putting them up: the addition on the back of the house is insulated on the outside with blue foam insulation, which is nice. The old house, over the brick, has 2" framing under the siding. It may also be insulated between that: we couldn't tell.

It's just getting dark now: soon we'll be able to test the lights.

We didn't get to doing the kitchen/dining room lights (probably tomorrow). Instead, we installed Christmas lights.

Mostly we put them on some of our new fences: they should be really nice once its dark out. We also put some on the Red Shed Used for Storage Needs Some Work.

All in all, a really fun day. :-)