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Needless to say, we wanted them gone, but we weren’t sure exactly how that process was going to go.

This past week has been full of showhouse meetings and Children’s Hospital projects, but we also managed to knock three more bullets off our kitchen to-do list.

We (1) patched, primed, and painted the old yellowed ceiling, (2) replaced the two fluorescent lights in the kitchen area, and (3) replaced the light over the breakfast table.

The dining room really need to lose the wallpaper and light fixture too. Also, note the fluorescent light fixture box that so many of us have dealt with.

My main concern in the foyer and dining room was just to lighten it up with a pretty neutral paint. This area had dark stained woodwork, linoleum floors, and again the wallpaper border that just screamed “help me”. With the dark moldings, it really closed the room in. The first thing I told him was that the cabinets really needed to be painted. He commissioned me to go out and pick out paint, tile for the floor, cabinet paint, granite for the countertops, and hardware for the cabinets, as well as updated fixtures for the kitchen and dining room. My goal was to keep it neutral and pretty, so that someone could see themselves living here.

When we remodeled the kitchen, we made our own to replace it, and I've had a few questions on how we made it.

We are not professional electricians by any means, so please don't rely solely on this tutorial. Truth be told, this long box of lights stayed here until well after the renovation was done.

In particular, figuring out what to do with the ugly fluorescent lighting.

Our house was built in the mid-1980’s, and had fluorescent lighting in the kitchen and bathrooms.

I took a look around his mid-1980’s brick home to see what all needed to be done.

We definitely decided to lighten up all the paint throughout and the unfortunate wallpaper that was installed over 10 years ago had to go.