Sunday Funday

Then, on Sunday we continued the fun by working on the ceiling fan. The old one was put in using a strong, but definitely not to code 2 x 6 instead of a box like it should have been. You can see Matt's enthusiasm when we discovered it

Matt and James made a valient attempt to put it up the new box Sat night, but trying to think through a job like this at 1 am is pretty difficult. You see, the floor joists aren't level and the fan box we had wasn't level, but the book we have says you should try to level the box. Makes you scratch your head, right? Yeah, us too. So we went to home depot and bought a new box that we thought would be easier to level. And it wasn't too bad during the light of day.

The only issue was that to get it level, we had to get a little creative. The post comes with helpful tabs that sit on the bottom of the joists, but since our joists weren't level we had to bend one back and then cut off the excess that hung down below the beam

Then, we finished up wiring the switches; one for the fan and a dimmer for the lights by the door to the closet

And the same set up by the door into the room

And, as a bonus, we picked a paint color. It's blue grey and after looking at it on the wall we're not sure if its too blue. So we're going to grab a couple other colors and do some more test patches

As an added bonus, I got to cap off the silly switch outside the room

In a few short days, you'll be able to turn on the lights without opening the door, amazing :)