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I’m in the mood to spruce up my nest.  No, I’m not nesting.  It’s just that the recent sunshine has me all geared up to prettify my space.

When I come across lighting on sale in the home improvement store, it makes my wheels turn! I start thinking of all the projects I want to start and imagining how light fixtures can just transform a room.  Now that there are so many cost-effective alternatives to incandescent light bulbs, I’m really interested in learning more about ways to decorate my home with attractive light fixtures.   When we first purchased our home, we noticed that there were many outdated light fixtures installed in our house.   We started replacing them one at a time until we were happy with the results.  In fact, I even gave away one of our vintage kitchen lights in a white elephant gift exchange!  Pretty hilarious when I look back on that.   So many new options are available just ten years later that I’m starting to think about doing another update.   We currently have track lighting in two rooms and some pretty pendant lights over the kitchen island.   We only have lamps in the master bedroom and they’re rarely used.   I think our living room needs some floor lamps, and we’re thinking about maybe putting some wall sconces near our front door.  These are affordable options that can be a DIY weekend project for my main squeeze over his spring break, don’t you think?

After the lighting thing is finished, I’d really like to get new windows.  Our house was built about 30 years ago and the windows are as creaky as I feel.  The screens are all but gone, there are spider webs in the top crevices, and there’s no way I can clean the outsides without getting on a really high ladder…..which is not going to happen.   In our last house (which was new construction) we had these fabulous tilt-in windows that were a snap to clean.   This year when I tried to put our Christmas wreaths in the windows, the insulation along the window started to crack from being so dried out!  Yes, it’s time to upgrade and put this old house through a makeover.

What home improvements do you have in store?  If you had a blank check and could do anything to your existing space, where would you start?

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