Light Shopping Anyone?!

You know, I never knew that there were SO many options for lighting for a house.  Well, ok I did, but I never thought that the decision would be so hard.  Mike and I went to Home Depot on Saturday to look at the different lighting options and get some ideas for our house.

If you don't know already, our design for our house includes cathedral ceilings in the kitchen/dining area.  So Mike wants to put a sun tunnel in the kitchen area to allow for more light (because lets face it, most kitchens have one window above the sink and that simply doesn't have enough light coming through! :) ).  So with the sun tunnel we are also going to put in 5" eyeball trim lights up in the ceiling.  They'll be flush with the ceiling but be able to move around and such so that we can direct the light appropriately.

One of the things we wanted was a big ceiling fan to cover both rooms.  I figured we'd need two because of the amount of space we are to cover with the fans.  Well, we found one that is 68" across... it's the BIGGEST fan we've ever seen (http://www.homedepot.com/h_d1/N-5yc1v/R-100630835/h_d2/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&storeId=10051&catalogId=10053).  Mike made this decision and it makes a lot of sense for me.  Plus, it helped me decide on lighting for the dining area!


I had found this really neat chandelier at Lowes and I really liked it.(http://www.lowes.com/pd_258947-76219-EJV8113_0__?productId=3295176&Ntt=wheat+light&pl=1&currentURL=/pl__0__s%3FNtt%3Dwheat%2Blight).  I was unsure about how it would look in the house with the ideas we have for the kitchen area.  We really need the lighting to flow with the design of the kitchen since there will be no structure in between to separate out the kitchen and dining areas.  I really liked the Wheat Chandelier when I first saw it because it was so unique and sort of country-ish but I wanted Mike to like it too.  With his decision on the fan, it just makes perfect sense now to go with the light I like.

The problem is- we may not be able to wait to purchase what we want because it may not be available later on.  That's where our awesome gift cards to Home Depot and Lowe's come in.  We can basically take 50% off of the lighting fixtures that we want to purchase by using our gift cards!  So Mike and I will hopefully be able to go on Thursday to Lowe's and Home Depot and pick up the fan and chandelier that we want.  As for the other lights, we have no doubt those will still be around in a few months when we begin the building process.

It gets me excited to start this process- and the more we can pay out of our pockets now, the less we will pay in the mortgage in the end.  The gift cards that we got from our parents this Christmas is going to help us a lot (thank you again to Mike's Mom and Dad and my Mom and Dad!  Best Presents EVER!).  The only thing is, we can get the lights and put them into a storage area- but then we can't even hang them and look at their prettiness! LOL!  Oh well, all things in good time right?!


Like our Love, it comes one step at a time.