Black and white are lower maintenance than metals, especially when one lives anywhere near the ocean with rust and corrosion due to salt.
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Just keep logging on to this site. I’m now getting ads for…light fixtures!
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To continue promoting lighting ads, here’s the fixture we’re planning to get for our kitchen. We need to direct more light on the counters and husband does not want any kind of under cabinet temp lighting. And we are highly unlikely to ever get around to redoing the kitchen.
We were able to go look at it at the store. I love wondering around Lamps Plus! And I love being vaccinated so that we can finally do that.
This is actually the light I liked, but we decided organza shades and kitchens did not go well together.
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@coralbrook, this woman sounds like a whack job, and you’re going to wind up nuts and unhappy if you try to please her. I really think you need to bring the hammer down. Tell her that you have to move on to another job by X date, so she’d better hurry up. While you’re working on the other job, you won’t be able to work on her job at all. At. All.
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This is fun BUT I think we REALLY need to keep lighting suggestions dedicated to coral brooks project and start another thread for our own projects!
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Started another thread for our own personal projects so we can keep this one focused on coral brooks. Feel free to repost on “Home Decor projects! Help me find…”
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@gouf78 that’s a great idea for the other thread. People always need help finding stuff
@Marilyn . That is not my favorite light fixture for your home. It’s like a big flower on the ceiling, but might look nice. Maybe you could have a little more fun with a Sputnik flush mount
I am in love with the #2 on Marilyn’s first post. We might do that one for master bedroom
Because. Drum Roll. She pulled the trigger on a dining room light today, right in front of my eyes on her phone!! I thought it would never happen. She was all over the map all over the house. I reined her in and told her dining room chandelier first because it has to set the tone for the rest of the living area. I took down my big glass chandelier and dragged it over there (OMG so heavy…took two of us to carry a giant box into the bed of my truck). I was the first to admit it wasn’t right. It brought too much turquoise into the house because of the lighting. So told her to get the Serena and Lily sale one because it would arrive in 2 weeks, was a good price and it was neutral but a statement piece. And she did. After I told her she could return it if she didn’t like it.
One down, 24 more lights to go including exterior. Luckily some of those are pairs of sconces
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My biggest concern with this job is there is a never ending list of new things she wants. I’m pretty sure she thinks we are designated handymen for the rest of the decade. As suggested, I really have to give an end date so we can move onto other projects
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San Diego spiders are going to love that Del Ray for their webs.
Is this the one maybe for the bedroom?
https://www.lampsplus.com/products/mallorca-32-inch-wide-natural-abaca-rope-8-light-chandelier__70c09.html?gclid=Cj0KCQjwmIuDBhDXARIsAFITC_7HNS5clh2dhmoDtdVSdoxKAROgppBxAhtQMoR1kMqF-4yW2szWI7IaAji8EALw_wcB
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Yes. Very unique
About indecision. And I’ve got WAY too many analytical people in my family…
This was at a garden nursery owned by an old Vietnamese woman.
My dad couldn’t decide which type of key lime tree to buy. Took him forever.
He kept going over each one–some had thorns (supposedly tastier), some thornless (easier to care for obviously) , etc., etc. Some bigger, some greener . You get the idea.
And then this little old lady runs out to YELL at my dad…“Sometimes too picky don’t work!”
After the initial shock wore off my dad laughed and said–"she’s totally right. "
Picked one out and left.
It’s been a saying in our family ever since. “Sometimes too picky don’t work”.
You may never find exactly what you want. But most times it’s close enough and you’ll be happy. Or you may grow to love it despite your initial misgivings. Who knows? But agonizing over decisions that in the end don’t matter is a total waste of time and energy.
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“Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good!”
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Tell that to my sister. Did ever tell you all about the time she spent 40 minutes at Walmart worrying over which bottles of bubbles to buy for the three children of an acquaintance she was going to visit? One big jar, or three little jars? One that’s the color pink, or the color blue? One with three wands, or one with one wand, and then buy extra wands separately?
Really. 40 minutes.
“She pulled the trigger on a dining room light today” - HOORAY for the victory. Too bad it was such a darned challenge. Great idea bringing over your fixture, but what a lot of work. The homeowner probably has no clue how lucky she is to have you guiding this project.
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Progress this week:
Installed kitchen plumbing and faucet
Fireplace Trim completed
Trim painted
Floor Prep began
Range Hood installed
Garage Roof Installed
Siding complete
Hall Bathroom tile, vanity, plumbing and lighting complete
Stucco Brown coat complete and curing for 2 weeks
Really didn’t get much else done because I had to send painting, electrician, tile, plumbing crews over to a project in La Jolla (making a gym workout room in basement under the Bachelor Lawyer’s townhouse that I did a couple of years ago) and El Cajon Laundry
Some new photos loaded
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Is that the townhouse owner who spent a fortune renovating that townhouse?
Yes, same owner that was really into blinking colored lights everywhere, controlled from his phone. Including the lights that turned on when cabinet drawers opened. Those cabinet drawer lights caused a mass of wires and transformers taped to the back of the cabinets. I predict those wires and transformers will collapse off the back of the cabinets any day now. We had no way to ‘strap’ them on with screws or anything
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I loaded some more photos. Dilemna this week (well, besides getting her to decide anything… please please just get a toilet or a light!!!) is master bathroom shower tile. After 5 or 6 weeks taking her to tile stores and a million emails and texts with photos, she selected two main tiles:
Photos for this on website are terrible. It’s very pretty and neutral
https://www.bedrosians.com/en/product/detail/winter-tile/?itemNo=CERWINGRI824
And a patterned tile on sale for the main floor
So, we are struggling with the shower floor tile and she wants mother of pearl herringbone for an accent on the shower wall somewhere. We are thinking kind of a thick picture frame around the window. But, she selected a tile that is ‘peel and stick’ and I keep trying to explain to her that we cannot put that on a wet shower wall!
This weekend I may have to fire my longtime stucco guy. He is a month late finishing the project, disappears for weeks, does not answer the phone or texts and spends half his time screaming at me that he refuses to do X Y or Z because it won’t look right and I don’t know what I am talking about. Since Day 1 the owners selected Sand Finish and he tells me just last week that he cannot do Sand Finish on this house because the walls aren’t perfectly straight. Well, he could have explained that earlier, but I don’t think it is really the issue. He is just trying to get out of it because it is harder to do and more material (lots of sand!). Luckily I already have a backup stucco guy on call, but it is going to cost $1,000 over bid from original stucco guy and I’ve never been in this situation before and don’t know how to explain to the owners. The stucco guy was so rude and nasty to me 2 weeks ago that one of my crew came up afterwards and literally begged to go deck the guy or give him a piece of his mind.
Just remembered I did have to fire a tile guy once about 7 years ago because he was smoking pot right in the owner’s back yard in the middle of the day!!! In a condo complex with people all over the place. What an idiot. He thought I wasn’t there and I came walking out.