Friday

 

Our designer has given her approval for using two different lights for the garage and entrance.  She agreed with us that the style and materials were similar enough that it would look planned. She also agreed that the two models were best suited for their respective places because of where they attach to the junction box. She will be discussing options with the contractor for preparing the platform on the column for hanging of the skinny fixture. We thought they would work, but it's good to get a professional opinion.

Here's the garage light.

It will hang about here. They sort of disappear in the daytime, which is good. We like that they are subtle. At night, in addition to lighting up the glass, light will also shoot out the top and bottom of the fixtures.

Same for the entrance lights. They may not even look like lights during the day.

Here are both lights in one picture, only not in the proper positions.

Late in the afternoon, our house number plaque arrived. That's the metal plaque above.

The numbers adhere with strong magnets, which makes it easy to clean: just remove the magnets and wipe and replace.

To get free shipping, I ordered another set of numbers for the mailbox. Now you can see the address from both directions. We have an abstract flower bed underneath the mailbox. When it warms up, we may bring a bit more organization to the edging, or leave it as it is. Maybe add some mulch.

We hung the address plaque.

The numbers are much easier to read in real life. The camera can't quite capture the light and shadows as well as the eye.

Nighttime

We look forward to when the landscape lights put white light--not yellow--on the house, equally on both sides. 

We returned two LED flood lights with the accent light to Whole Foods and then ordered two new LED lights without the accent light. When they arrive and we hang them, we will be finished with outdoor floodlights. 

We ordered two more lights like the entrance lights for the side and back doors, except they will be 13 inches instead of 18. When we ordered the entrance lights, the 13-inch size was not available. I just happened to look one more time before I began searching for something small and compatible. When they arrive, we will be close to hiring the electricians to take up the old high voltage garden lights and pole light and install low voltage accent lights across the two beds on each side of the entrance. We probably will not replace the pole and lantern. The electricians will also install a whole-house surge protector at the electrical panel. It's likely they will need to hang most the new fixtures because the old ones look difficult to remove. They've been hanging in the elements for 35 years and may have to be cut off. I've been lucky so far with the flood lights. We're making progress. The next big step is to have the light platform on the columns modified for the new lights.

We enjoyed a 69 degree afternoon, but tomorrow 30 mph winds will bring in the cold and send temperature plummeting throughout the day, bottoming out at 33 degrees tomorrow night, a record for us since moving here and the coldest temperature in a decade, we hear. I have an indoor project planned.