Remodeling

Whilst Ammon was helping a family friend remodel a house recently, not only did he obtain some old but fully functional fans, he also acquired a strong desire to remodel our home. Thankfully, we were in need of four fans to put in our kitchen/dining area (which had lights, but no fan) as well as our front room (which has no lighting at all currently). SO, Ammon and my dad began work on the little project of replacing the current light fixtures with ceiling fans. I won't go into the messy details about how our house has proven to constantly be a remodelers nightmare. However, I will mention that my kitchen looked basically like this for a full week:


In the kitchen area, there originally was a flourescent light fixture. The problem with replacing it with a fan was that the people who had put that original fixture up made it so that the entire area it was attached to was ruined. So Ammon had to replace a large section of the ceiling (see below).

Then he had to putty up all the cracks and sand that down to make it more even. None of this would be so bad if we hadn't moved in yet. BUT for those of you who have ever sanded anything, you know that the dust gets EVERYWHERE. Below is a picture of the floor after Ammon had sanded. See all of the fun footprints? The dust ended up all over all of our kitchen appliances, the adjacent carpets and even traveled as far as the guest bathroom.

Anyway, in the long run it was worth it. We have a beautiful (all be it old-fashioned) set of fans in our kitchen/dining room. I'm dreading the day when they decide to get started on the front room. (YEESH!!)