Our extra fridge sure has come in handy with this heat and all the renovation. I like having a selection of drinks for the guys who are braving the heat to do the work on my exterior!
Plus, great fridge to handle large platters or containers and leftovers!
Looks like things have been busy at your places, too!
Love it! Everything looks so nice together in this pic. Love your view, too.
Thank you!
We finally got some rain, so everything is green again (and in need of some attention from the clippers).
Looks good! I especially like the ruffle (?) detail on top of the curtain rod, it makes a simple curtain look just a tiny bit more fancy.
Your view is great, too, I’ve always dreamed of a house with a view from the sink! Great place for that bird feeder.
They look great with the cabinets and other finishes!
They are lovely! Well done.
Thanks! I love my view. It’s quiet out here.
The ruffle top was me winging it and underestimating just how drapey this linen was. ‘Drapey’ was kind of the goal, but that top edge should have been shorter so it’s not flopped over. I think I know how to fix that, and I will the next time they need a wash.
Oooh, that is so pretty with the lovely view. I always want kitchen sinks to look out the window, a sweet vignette almost makes up for having to do the washing up 
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Almost. 
It looks nice! And having a door opener is really convenient to have.
The third fan, on the third attempt, worked out! We had the help of a friend who trained as an electrician, but still it took us half an hour. So I suppose this thing is just truly challenging to put up, it wasn’t just us. The previous fans we purchased were damaged, but by that time we’d drilled the holes in the ceiling so we really wanted another one of the same type.
Ceiling fans were very uncommon in my country until a few years ago, and still almost all of the ones you can find are ugly. This one is plastic, painted with a wood grain pattern, up close you can clearly see it’s faux wood, but now it’s on the ceiling it looks fine. The two main selling points for us are it can fan in both directions, so it helps to conserve warmth in winter as well as cool in summer, and there’s an adjustable LED light in it. I like really bright light so I can see what I’m stitching, while Mr. Imma likes a warm, cosy, dimmed light.
That’s a cool looking fan!
I have noticed that a lot of lighting available now seems to be faux wood, plastic or not great up close but just fine on the ceiling. I guess with tastes changing so much, they are making decorative things for the home “disposable” and easy on the budget.
Hey, at least they do the job of looking good for now and helping with task lighting and cooling/heating. Glad third time was a charm!
It’s certainly been a challenge to find light fixtures that look nice, look like they won’t fall apart in a year, and are reasonably priced. We got several from Ikea, but in some rooms we still only have a simple bulb on a cord while we’re searching for something we like. A lot now have built-in LED lights that can’t be replaced. The boxes all say the LED lights will last for years and years, but who knows if that’s true. If it breaks you’ll need to replace the whole thing instead of just the bulb.
Congrats on getting your fan installed! Reversible rotation is key for sure.
It seems like the hardest thing to find in affordable house stuff is simple, but not plain styling. Lower cost things either look so utilitarian that they are obviously low-budget or they look like the manufacturer thought, “let’s just keep adding stuff to it to fake fanciness.” Which also looks cheap, but will fool enough people to make a good profit.
I’d like to add a fan to the guest room. The last time I looked I had a hard time, because for some reason the electrical box is not centered in the room, which means I’ll need a pretty small fan. At the time none of the smaller ones in a reasonable price range felt right for our style. The ceiling fan options for us are further limited by our 8’ ceilings: typical of 1970s houses in the US of this size, especially in a climate with cold winters. It seems almost inevitable that when I find one that ticks the boxes, it doesn’t have a light or the light kit ruins the look! That said, I haven’t looked in a couple of years, so maybe I should see what’s out there now.
I watch a guy who goes into $800,000+ homes for sale and points out all the cheap and fakey things. His point is that even high end homes are using cheap and non-lasting fixtures, finishes, etc. Not what you would expect in a higher end home.
It is tough to find things that are of decent quality, come from a reputable company and is reasonable in cost.
We are slowly replacing builder grade things in our home. Finding what we want and can afford has been a real challenge…plus, I am unable to do a lot of the work anymore, but, I can change door hardware(I think!) so I am going to do that. My first set arrives today…lol…let’s see how long it takes me! I am not paying my handyman $150 unless I absolutely fail, so wish me luck!
Good luck! Unless there is something tricky to the existing door/hardware you should have no problem replacing that!
And some things can be “cheap.” I agree that on the ceiling it’s hard to tell if something is lower quality. And once it’s up there, unless it’s hanging down, it mostly goes unnoticed or barely noticed. If it’s just a light, there’s not much to wear out, either, unless it has those (dumb?) integrated LEDs.
I just looked at Lamps Plus and Wayfair and with my parameters everything looks like it belongs in a super villian’s lair, the Jetzens’ house, or the stark loft of an urban bachelor. Well, I guess there were some that looked like a shrunken version of a larger fan that would move hardly any air at all.
I found all my ceiling fans between Menard’s and Lowe’s. We have 8’ ceilings, too, so they’re flush-mounted, and all mine have normal light bulbs.
Thanks for the tip! We don’t have Menard’s, but I can look at Lowe’s. That said, I suppose Menard’s has an online store.
They do! And it’s pretty easy to use. It’s one store I’ve never had issues with.
