
a chandelier, watering live evergreens & blue checks
The living room is in the front of our house, which faces south. Most of the day, the room gets beautiful light..streaming through the dining room and front windows in the morning and in long, golden beams through the west-facing windows in the afternoon. At night, though, this room is dark. That is because it has no overhead lighting. The house was built in the 1940’s and having lots of junction boxes and outlets was just not the thing to do. I’ve wanted to add pot (recessed) lights and junction boxes for light fixtures to the old part of the house for years, but with plasterboard ceilings and no easy access the ceilings, it would be a major, messy project. I think lighting is so important for a room, but lines have to be drawn somewhere when you’re fixing up a home that you’re not planning to live in for very









