Bye Bye Bat Cave

When I moved into this house, I suspected that the lighting in the family room would be an issue. I was hoping that I'd be wrong. All I had was a ceiling fan with three lights. This picture gives you kind of an idea of the glare and of how cave-like this room is when the sun goes down. Only an idea, though, because I turned on every light in the vicinity to take this image and you can see that it's still daylight.

This lighting made it a nightmare to do so many things. If I wanted to knit, I had to turn the light on over the kitchen table (which is located behind the couch). Forget about reading anything on paper or making writing notes. Doing anything other than watching television or playing on the phone was unpleasant.

The house I built when I lived in Minnesota had lots of recessed lights in the kitchen, foyer, and family room. It was one huge great room. The house I bought when I first moved to Georgia had six recessed lights in the family room. The couple I bought the house from had installed them.

And then I moved into the house with the Bat Cave...

I tried lamps (as you can see in the picture), but that didn't help very much. It became clear that I was going to have to get an electrician in and add my own recessed lighting to this house. And on Tuesday, they came and installed it! Hurrah! Last night as I sat on the couch, I could see what I was working on! Fabulous!

Here's a shot of the family room ceiling of my new lights.

They did such a good job on the installation that I won't need a painter to come in to touch up my ceiling. Those of you who've read my blog for a while know it was months and months and months to actually get my walls fixed.

Anyway, there is nothing cave-like about my family room now and I'm ecstatic!