Our weekend in pictures (and a few words)

What does this tool have to do with "our" weekend

Made life a tad bit easier.

Remember when I posted about the awesome deal we got on this light over the breakfast table...

Well if you don't...that's OK...this is the light we got at Lowes for awesome $$$

and...

knew we would want to get something that complimented it over our island

but...

we had to deal with

"The Grid"

We ran into another awesome deal on lights at Home Depot...that place gets us in trouble every time. You know...you go in for one thing and come out spending more  $$$ than expected...I know you have been there so don't deny it.

We are about 3-4 miles from the nearest one and let's just say we should own stock in the place.

I thought about making it easier on Jay and just take down the grid and hang the pendant lighting even though the "box" would still be in tack.

But Jay had other things in mind and decided to take it down.

We went from the Industrial look

To...

Which (I think) compliments

Am I glad he didn't listen to me... in a word "yes," but you couldn't convince me of that late late late Saturday night into the wee hours of Sunday morning when I we were cleaning up drywall dust EVERYWHERE.


And that handy dandy tool up top...it helped in making a perfect rectangle for me to paint where the box had been. We got the same color of paint (with the paint matching that can be done) and we got flat, the can even said flat, but it came out a bit shiny and so instead of painting the ENTIRE ceiling because I am lazy and painting is NOT the job my hubby does, we opted for this solution which looks no different in the day time and at night you have the pendant lighting reflecting. So as far as we are concerned it was a brilliant decorating idea.