Let there be light!

I couldn't resist the pun. While I was off looking at quilts in St. Cloud, Dana was hard at work at home. Thankfully he had some help from his brother Nick and Nick's father-in-law, Mike, a licensed electrician. Not a bad guy to have in the extended family!

When we moved in, there was no overhead light in any of the three bedrooms or in the living room. There were outlets in each room that were controlled by a switch on the wall, so we plugged in floor lamps and made do. In our bedroom, we had a fan for air circulation and white noise, too.

Don't need you guys anymore!

Sunday afternoon, I came home to this:

Fans in the master bedroom and living room, with separate switches for the fan and the light. Lights in the guest bedroom and office. The boys even used 3-strand wire so we could go in and put fans in there, too.

The lights were a cheapo two-pack from Home Depot. The fans we got from Amazon. Dana made a run to Home Depot for a few miscellaneous pieces for the installation - switches, switchplates, that sort of thing. So we put about $250 into materials ourselves, and Mike guesses he used another $75 in materials that he had on hand.

The best part about having family help for something like this? We could pay Mike double what he asked for and we still got a screaming deal. We had gotten a couple of quotes for this work and they would have charged more than a thousand bucks. Mike, you're a hero! And we owe Nick dinner, too. Thanks guys!