It’s the little things that get to you with owning a house. The neverending battle against, well, entropy. <\/p>\n
Shortly after we moved in, we took out the big fluorescent lights in the kitchen, and, on the Ks’ first visit, we put up some nice track lighting kits from Home Depot (or maybe Lowes, or it was Eagle back then).<\/p>\n
We liked the kits so much, we installed a similar set out in the family room to add some area lighting that was sorely lacking.<\/p>\n
Fast forward, oh, seven or eight years (!), and, hey presto … <\/p>\n
… the fixtures are falling apart. Cheap plastic + halogen lamps = plastic decay<\/em>. <\/p>\n For the kitchen, then, we bought some replacement lamps, nicer looking (I think), and hopefully good for another several years. The less decayed of the kitchen lamps have gone to the family room to replace the ones there that were falling apart, until we can decide what we want to do there. (We’d like to do black fixtures, to better blend with the ugly beam the track is on, but that would require replacing the track, too, which would be a PitA. Not to mention that the available black fixtures at HD are either large and ugly or small and underpowered.)<\/p>\n On the bright side, I got something constructive done this weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s the little things that get to you with owning a house. The neverending battle against, well, entropy. 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