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We finally got some light in our upstairs Jack n’ Jill bathroom. A Jack n’ Jill, for those of you who may be wondering, is two bathrooms that share a tub/shower. The tub/shower room is sandwiched between the two bathrooms, and in our case, is separated by pocket doors. I hope that makes sense.
Moving on. When we bought the house, the bathrooms looked like this:
Above the mirror, which you can’t see, was a horrible, dressing-room type light fixture. You know the kind, with the four or five clear bulbs in a row? When the room was painted, those babies came right down. This left both the Jack and the Jill rooms without much light for the past year. So I’ve been searching for the right fixture for the part of the bathroom with the window, let’s call this one Jill.
Jill has a sloped ceiling, which limited the size of the fixture we could get.
But we found it in Pottery Barn’s Mercer Horizontal. Purchased on Ebay for about thirty dollars less than retail. So I put Anuj to work. It was slightly scary watching him handle live wires, but I was very proud of his newfound electrical skills. He had to replace the light box, cut a circle out of the dry wall to make room for the new ‘pancake box’, shave the new wires, and then match them up to the ones coming out of the wall. It only required two or three calls to my Dad (prompted by me) along the way.
Our tools – including the pancake box.
My electrician.
And…the finished product.
I know, I know, our camera is sort of terrible.
I’m not one for resolutions – I don’t make them, so I can’t break them. I do, however, keep a running home improvement to-do list in my head, and I figured getting it down on paper (or .php) might help me visualize the extent of the projects – and the reality of completing them in the next 11+ months.
Along with the horrible linen-closet-cabinet thing outside the upstairs bathroom, there was something else in the house Anuj and I knew had to go. This:
I know, there’s a lot of things wrong with this picture. But draw your attention to the wallpaper. How could anyone look at this for longer than five minutes and not run screaming into the wilderness? Let me show you from another perspective just to be sure we’re in agreement:
