Giving NEW life....

In our attempt to complete the updating of this house that we started doing right after we moved in, while still being frugal enough to finish it sooner, here is what I have done with our lights.

We started replacing all of the gold (yes, AWESOME retro TOTALLY 80's GOLD) with the stainless/pewter/nickel goodness of today. I could not find any exterior lights that met the desires of BOTH Grady and I, so we never got around to replacing them. And, at around $50 each, I will not replace them now. So, for the total cost of ONE CAN of spray paint, I now have 6 "new" lights for this place!

Interior bath and hallway light BEFORE:

..and AFTER!

That is what I did yesterday. Grady was so amazed that while I was showing our piano (it's for sale by the way...if you know anyone...we're not moving it again) to a couple of people, he was out stripping the lights off of the garage and doors. Here's the pile of mess after I washed them up last night:

YAH BABY! More of that great brassy goodness. After a few more minutes outside today and then putting it back together, we now have this for our front door:

I am very happy that we did not go spend the money to replace them. I think that they look fine and are 100% better than what we bought this house with. What do you think?

P.S. I (okay, well, WE) have a DATE with that olde beauty on Saturday! I'll keep ya up to speed on how things go with her! We're pullin' down a big trailer of goods to store...great thing that we have relation with the storage business. Stuff here and here and here...yah, that'd get expensive.