Shine!

It is amazing how much of a difference a new light fixture will make in a room.

Pierre pointed our our "eyeball" living room lights soon after we moved in. At first, I couldn't understand what the problem was with them. Of course, soon that is all I could see in the room and agreed we should switch out the lights. What I didn't know was that you can leave the actual light fixture alone and just switch out the "trim" - this is WAY less expensive than replacing the entire light.

Left - eyeball light                                                        Right - low profile light

We also wanted to replace our standard dome light fixture in the center of the room.

(the dark gray circle is one of our built in speakers)

I never like rushing into buying something like this. I was looking for something fun, something with a little whimsy but also grown-up and modern. Surprisingly, places you may not expect have some very original lights. I found THE light at Pottery Barn Kids on clearance!

We decided to install a ceiling medallion before we installed our new light fixture - this solves the problem of a potential size variance from an existing light cover. 

Pierre shut the power down to the house before working on any of this, and proceeded from here to the installation of our new light.

            

We played around with bulb type but settled on an LED light, we won't have to change this bulb for a while!