• Home
  • About
    • Personal Posts
  • Privacy
  • Shop
    • My Account
    • Checkout
    • Email
    • Facebook
    • Instagram
    • Pinterest
    • Twitter
    • YouTube
Sawdust Girl®

Sawdust Girl®

Renovation, cabinet building and woodworking plans and tutorials. Build like a Girl®

  • My Home
    • Clinton TN House
      • Clinton TN House in Progress
    • Maryville TN House
      • Maryville TN House Tour – Completed Rooms
      • Maryville TN House in Progress
        • Basement
        • Basement Storage Closet
        • Bedroom Office
        • Craft Room
        • Dining Room
        • Entry
        • Garage
        • Guest Bedroom
        • Hallway
        • Jack and Jill Bathroom
        • Kitchen
        • Kitchen Entry
        • Laundry Room
        • Library
        • Living Room
        • Loft
        • Madison’s Room
        • Master Bedroom
        • Master Closet
        • Pantry
        • Porch
        • Powder Room
        • Wes’ Office
    • Illinois House
    • Calderwood Cottage
  • My Workshop
    • Clinton Workshop
  • Build & Breakfast
  • Cabinet Making 101
    • Cabinets
    • Doors
    • Drawers
  • Projects and Plans
    • Countertops
    • Beds
    • Benches
    • Bookshelves
    • Desks
    • Gift Ideas
    • Holiday
      • Christmas
      • Halloween
    • Home Accessories
    • Kids
    • Kitchen Cabinets
    • Lockers
    • Nightstands
    • Organization accessories
    • Recipes
    • Sewing
    • Tables
    • Vanities
    • Wardrobes
    • Woodworking
      • Wood Finishing
    • Workshop
    • Workshop Storage and Organization
  • Remodeling 101
    • Baseboard and Trim
    • crown molding
    • Demolition
    • Door and Window Casings
    • Door Installation
    • Drywall
    • Electrical work
    • Flooring
    • Home Maintenance
    • Painting
    • Plumbing
    • Resources
    • Safety
    • Tile
    • Wall and Ceiling Treatments
  • Sawdust Squad
  • The Sawdust Diaries
    • Andrea
    • Ava D.
    • Beckie F.
    • Cara C.
    • Courtney B
    • Fawn T.
    • Jenn D.
    • Kelly C.
    • Kristy K.
    • Lara T.
    • Malisa B.
    • Marnie D.
    • Robin C.
    • Val F.
  • Tools
    • Products
    • Tool Reviews & Overviews
    • Inspiration & Ideas

Light up my …dining room

Dining Room

Dining room light

Last week while working on my Bookcase and waiting for wood putty to dry, I installed a light in my dining room.  It happens to be a light I purchased about two years ago with the intention of installing it in my Library, a room which proved to be way too small to have any kind of seating arrangement that would allow alight dangling down in the center.  So it’s been in my “Crap room“ for two years.  Then it took two days to actually get the light installed because the ceiling bracket that came with the light didn’t quite fit the hole in my ceiling.  Wes came home from Home Depot with this adjustable one which came in a package with no instructions and three separate pieces.

Now, when you see it put together it looks like a no-brainer, but three loose parts staring up at me had wide eyed and blank brained like a deer staring at headlights!  I happened upon the very part online in a “put together” picture and figured it out instantly.

(Funny how my brain works!)

Dining room light

So I got it installed and then it took another three days to find lightbulbs so we continued to eat our dinners at the kitchen bar or on the couch for a few extra days.  ‘Cause we like to see the fork as it approaches our faces!

There are plenty of bulbs out there but I’m partial to “Daylight” bulbs and it appears that ANY AND ALL companies that manufacture these little things just love to make them in “warm” light.  I looked and looked (for about 5 minutes because that’s about all the time I have to waste on little details like that) and finally just bought what was available.  Our dining room is SUPER YELLOW when the light is on but at least there is light.  I have seen cool white bulbs in this size/style but they were like $3000 each so I didn’t order them.  I keep thinking they’ll come down…guess I need to stop buying light that require these dumb little bulbs!

Dining room light

I really do not like the yellow light so I like the room best in the daylight.  It’s coming together though!  Someday soon I’ll get the crown and base up and then put something on the walls.  I wanted a buffet thingy against one wall but the room is JUST SO SMALL!

This house is so weird!  Some rooms are oddly huge and then others are ridiculously small…rolling with it!  🙂

Dining room light

December 11, 2014 · 4 Comments

« How to cut in when painting
Homemade Pumpkin Roll »

Comments

  1. Betsy P. says

    December 11, 2014 at 12:21 pm

    Love this fixture. Do you feel like it gives you enough light? I would like to order one like that to replace my 9 light dining room chandelier. Now I just have to convince the hubby.

    Reply
  2. Laurie says

    December 11, 2014 at 2:17 pm

    Too bad you couldn’t have put some kind of pseudo hutch inside the wall. Between the studs (boxed out if you know what I mean). In planning stage you might have been able to steal some space from adjoining room? Not sure if layout would have allowed for that or not but whatever, it’s a beautiful room!

    Reply
  3. Mary Lou Fritz says

    December 12, 2014 at 6:08 pm

    HI, can you please tell me how high your ceilings are? I am trying to figure out if there are “rules” of wanting to install beams or coffered ceilings vs. ceiling height. Thanks, your light and room looks really great.
    Mary

    Reply
  4. MarieRoxanne says

    December 14, 2014 at 10:32 am

    I like the simpleness of this light fixture. I have a colorful Tiffany style one I would like to put up but don’t know how high or how low it should be above the table. How do you know at what height to add a chandelier?

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Categories

New Post email notification signup

You Subscribed!

Legal Stuff

Terms of Use

Privacy Policy

Disclosure

Recent Posts

  • Lodge Update – Floors, Cabinets, Countertops, and Appliances
  • Lodge Kitchen Cabinet Progress
  • Halloween Mad Gab – Halloween Party Ideas
  • Concrete Backsplash or Vertical Wall Treatment
  • Building and Installing a Giant Faux Beam on the Ceiling

Disclaimer:

Although it is my intention to provide accurate plans and clear instructions, not all plans have been tried and tested. Using plans or information found on SawdustGirl.com indicates that you agree with the Terms of Use policy and will accept full responsibility for the process and outcome of any project you attempt. All plans are for private use only. Plans and information published on SawdustGirl.com may not be reproduced, republished or distributed in any manner without written permission from Sandra Powell, Sawdust Girl. Actual projects built using Sawdust Girl plans may be published on your own site without instructions or "tutorial" as long as you provide a link to my original post with full post title or "SawdustGirl.com" as link title.

Copyright © 2022 · anchored theme by <a target="_blank"