Little home updates

 Last time when I first moved in & installed my chandelier I hire an electrician to come out and install it. I watched him most of the time & thought to myself I can do that. So since I had some extra money that I wanted to spend I decided to update some of my interior and exterior fixtures. So I watch the YouTube video on how to change lights. The only tool I didn't have that I needed was the wirecutters which I bought a cheap cutter for $9. And that was only after I had done one light using scissors to cut the wire and shave it back. (I also had to borrow my brother-in-law's screwdriver drill, for 1 screw I could not get out of an outlet box by hand)

Fairly easy to install and relatively inexpensive (if u do just one) and totally changes the feel. The problem is I started with just the outdoor ones and within a couple days I had my whole house done. 

The before backdoor fixture (the front door was the same thing) 

The new front light

The new back light with motion sensors 

The before hallway 

The new hallway lights 

And the most pain in the butt light to change was just changing the shade on my ceiling fan light in my living room. Can be done with no tools just fingers but damn those light screws that hold the shade in place are a pain! 

(The pattern matches the swirls and colors on my fireplace mantle, and I know that the pic isnt appealing because of all the colors but with the fan on you can't really see the gold with the lights on.) 

 

Also did the lights in my bathroom but I didn't take a take before picture but you can see how big they were and they didn't have any shade so it was just the bulb light shining bright first thing in the morning irritating my eyes plus I'm not a fan of bright lights to begin with. I havent painted yet because I haven't wanted to crawl up into the attic & I'll do that this weekend but you get the idea what lights look like for the meantime (i'll update the pictures once I paint)

I also decided to get a rug for the kitchen 

and add a window film for the window in the dogs room. The dogs also got a new light in their room to remove the builder grade gold base one (like the hallway one) but what I replaced it with was just a simple around light like the one that was there, just with a oil bronze base. 

(I had just said to myself to doublecheck to make sure they were going into the same direction but after stepping back I realize I had done what I just said not to do but like it enough to leave it)