Hello,
It would be really great if everyone here could just post one or a few pictures showing the current state of their house.
I'll start right away.
For renovations, it’s best to provide a comparison of before and after the remodeling.
Before March 2014:
After May 2015:
It would be really great if everyone here could just post one or a few pictures showing the current state of their house.
I'll start right away.
For renovations, it’s best to provide a comparison of before and after the remodeling.
Before March 2014:
After May 2015:
This week, due to our vacation, we have a no-tradespeople zone in our house. On the one hand, it’s nice not having strangers constantly walking through the house, but on the other hand, progress is at a standstill.
First of all: we finally managed to catch our cat, who had so far avoided all capture attempts, and bring him back inside. Unfortunately, we still have no sign of our escaped cat. I keep putting out food, and it disappears, but I don’t know if it’s our cat eating it. We’re still hoping to find him again. For now, though, we have three cats with us again — but that means an occupied bed:
Otherwise, our carpenter came by on Saturday before his vacation and at least set up the carcasses of our cabinets so we can start putting our clothes away (though we’re far from finished):
The kitchen now has almost all the drawers installed (except for the one under the sink on the island — here we still need to wait for the sink installation):
This picture also makes it clear why I absolutely need handles in the work area — where else should I hang the towels I urgently need within easy reach when cooking and working?
We also have the first baseboards (still not fixed):
Our robot vacuum still manages to get tangled under the open parts — looking forward to when this is no longer an issue. The carpenter is now on a two-week vacation at Lake Garda. He definitely deserves it, and I’m happy for him (but I waaaant vaaaaacaaation too! Want to lie around and do nothing *sob*).
There is one thing we now consider a total design mistake: the lights above the dining table:
Okay, this is not the final table that will be there (the carpenter, currently vacationing at Lake Garda, is still building it, and other chairs will be added), but overall, the globes are hung too high — they cause glare when sitting at the table. They should hang about 20cm (8 inches) lower, and I fear that won’t be possible because the steel cables and power cords were cut to length. Too bad. But maybe we’re lucky and there’s some extra length stored at the top, so they can be hung lower. That would be a good start.
And the gold inside is quite nice, but it doesn’t match our color scheme at all. From the beginning, I wanted silver inside, but I was overruled. Seeing it now, alongside the silver spotlights, the silver Mercury light in the living room, and the matte gold Mitos lights above the island (the color is called matte gold but looks more like rose gold) — it just doesn’t fit.
If anyone is interested in two designer lamps with the option for a long drop and wants these — I would sell them. We’ll definitely replace them. My husband would also like the Mitos lights we have above the island for the dining table. But that’s too expensive right now (each costs about €2,500 and we need at least two, if not three, which is currently out of the question).
I do like the globes themselves, just silver inside, and maybe the ones I once saw that I found really fun for a dining table because the light is hidden behind a soup spoon and reflects into the globe:
(When I look online, these lights only come with a max drop length of 1.70m (5 ft 7 in), which isn’t enough for us — no idea if they can be made with a longer suspension.)
We’ll try to negotiate with the lighting store about what to do. I actually think they should know at the store what height to hang lights above a dining table so customers don’t have to realize later that the lights are too high. Surely there are standard recommended measurements! A dining table’s top edge typically measures 74–78cm (29–31 inches). I hired professionals and paid a lot of money to make sure the lights would be hung correctly.
We’ll see... I’ve always had doubts about the gold in relation to our other lights, but I was overruled (even by my husband and brother — they said silver would be much too cold. I don’t agree...). I certainly don’t like it this way.
So, I’ll have to go back to the lighting store and look for a solution with them.
First of all: we finally managed to catch our cat, who had so far avoided all capture attempts, and bring him back inside. Unfortunately, we still have no sign of our escaped cat. I keep putting out food, and it disappears, but I don’t know if it’s our cat eating it. We’re still hoping to find him again. For now, though, we have three cats with us again — but that means an occupied bed:
Otherwise, our carpenter came by on Saturday before his vacation and at least set up the carcasses of our cabinets so we can start putting our clothes away (though we’re far from finished):
The kitchen now has almost all the drawers installed (except for the one under the sink on the island — here we still need to wait for the sink installation):
This picture also makes it clear why I absolutely need handles in the work area — where else should I hang the towels I urgently need within easy reach when cooking and working?
We also have the first baseboards (still not fixed):
Our robot vacuum still manages to get tangled under the open parts — looking forward to when this is no longer an issue. The carpenter is now on a two-week vacation at Lake Garda. He definitely deserves it, and I’m happy for him (but I waaaant vaaaaacaaation too! Want to lie around and do nothing *sob*).
There is one thing we now consider a total design mistake: the lights above the dining table:
Okay, this is not the final table that will be there (the carpenter, currently vacationing at Lake Garda, is still building it, and other chairs will be added), but overall, the globes are hung too high — they cause glare when sitting at the table. They should hang about 20cm (8 inches) lower, and I fear that won’t be possible because the steel cables and power cords were cut to length. Too bad. But maybe we’re lucky and there’s some extra length stored at the top, so they can be hung lower. That would be a good start.
And the gold inside is quite nice, but it doesn’t match our color scheme at all. From the beginning, I wanted silver inside, but I was overruled. Seeing it now, alongside the silver spotlights, the silver Mercury light in the living room, and the matte gold Mitos lights above the island (the color is called matte gold but looks more like rose gold) — it just doesn’t fit.
If anyone is interested in two designer lamps with the option for a long drop and wants these — I would sell them. We’ll definitely replace them. My husband would also like the Mitos lights we have above the island for the dining table. But that’s too expensive right now (each costs about €2,500 and we need at least two, if not three, which is currently out of the question).
I do like the globes themselves, just silver inside, and maybe the ones I once saw that I found really fun for a dining table because the light is hidden behind a soup spoon and reflects into the globe:
(When I look online, these lights only come with a max drop length of 1.70m (5 ft 7 in), which isn’t enough for us — no idea if they can be made with a longer suspension.)
We’ll try to negotiate with the lighting store about what to do. I actually think they should know at the store what height to hang lights above a dining table so customers don’t have to realize later that the lights are too high. Surely there are standard recommended measurements! A dining table’s top edge typically measures 74–78cm (29–31 inches). I hired professionals and paid a lot of money to make sure the lights would be hung correctly.
We’ll see... I’ve always had doubts about the gold in relation to our other lights, but I was overruled (even by my husband and brother — they said silver would be much too cold. I don’t agree...). I certainly don’t like it this way.
So, I’ll have to go back to the lighting store and look for a solution with them.
Climbee schrieb:
I actually believe that people should already know at what height to hang lights above a dining table, rather than users realizing later that the fixtures are hung too high. There must be standard measurements suggested for this!For example, Light11 writes:
“The distance between the tabletop and the bottom edge of the pendant light should be between 60 cm and 70 cm (24 and 28 inches).”
However, with such wide fixtures, there is also a risk of bumping your head when standing up.
I would negotiate a longer drop length and test the heights out.
If the lights are hung lower, the gold finish is at least less visible while standing.
We have the size Lightyears Caravaggio P4 (E27) in white, which is well glare-free due to its long body.
How is dust with the black lights?
J
j.bautsch13 Aug 2019 09:54Climbee schrieb:
I do put out food regularly, and it does get eaten, but unfortunately I don’t know if it’s our tomcat who’s getting full there.Maybe you could set up a camera to see which cat it is. I’m glad you at least have the other one back. Keeping my fingers crossed that the escaped stray will come back too!
Otus11 schrieb:
Light11 writes, for example:
"The distance between the tabletop and the bottom edge of the pendant light should be between 60cm and 70cm (24 inches and 28 inches)." For us, that is easily more than one meter (39 inches) – definitely too high. Even though the lights are large. Now, when sitting down, you look directly into the three bulbs installed in the hemispheres, which is just glaring.
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