Light'em Up

This post is actually a pre-post to a post I'm super excited about.  We are finally getting our exterior lighting put on today….as I type this in fact!!

Before we closed on the house I would drive by at night just to take a look a few times a week.  To be honest, if you hadn't known the house was here, you probably would have missed it.  There were never any lights on outside and minimal lights on inside.  Our neighbor recently told my hubby how nice it is to drive by at night now and see lights on and know people actually live here.  LOL!!

Lighting is HUGE in my book - H.U.G.E!!!.  It can really make or break the feel of your house - indoors and out.  I will do a whole post on interior lighting at some point, but we are still working on that.  I also need to learn how to take good pictures of lighting.

We really could only go up in the exterior lighting department and none too soon as I'm having a huge outdoor party here on Friday.  I will post about that next week.

Let's take a look at what we currently have.  These are the lights at the front door.  I'm not even sure if one of them works at the moment.  I actually don't mind the shape, but they are weathered and not the welcome I would like when people come to our house.

Here are the lights by the back patio door, or should I say light?  The one with the globe is full of dead bugs, geeerrroooossss!!, and the other, well I'm not sure what ever became of it or if it ever really came at all.

Then we have two lights off the deck.  One with a globe and one without.  Maybe the globe it went with the patio light somewhere, ya just never know around here.

Finally, we have the lights on the garage.  Oh wait, there aren't any lights on the garage!!!  I can think of nothing more uninviting then having no lights on your garage.  And I can think of nothing more dangerous then having no lights on the front side of your garage that has the sidewalk leading up to your front door in front of it!  I am most excited about getting lights on this section of the house.  People will actually be able to come over when it's dark and not have to guess where they are walking before they run into the stairs!!  It's gone be a game changer my friends!

Up in the light department means up in the inventing department!!  Can't wait to show you the results!
Here's a teaser!

I'm in love!!!

Have a great evening friends!