New Fan

Ever since we moved in, we needed (maybe wanted) a new ceiling fan.  The original was an ugly white with awful brass accents.  To update and save money, we spray painted the fan and blades, replaced the brass blade attachments with brushed nickel, and changed out the ugly light things.  That worked well until recently.  We started to notice that the lights were burning out faster.  And there was one socket (I guess that's what you'd call it) that was particularly difficult to deal with when changing the light bulb.  A couple weekends ago, the brother went to change that light again.  This time, the base of the light bulb with the thread got stuck in the socket.  Seeing as how the living room needs more lighting anyway, only using the 2 remaining lights wasn't going to work.  Luckily, Lowe's happened to have their Hunter ceiling fans 20% off.  So we picked one out (it's suppose to be a 5-minute fan....power to whoever can do that in five minutes) and the next day, the brother and I got it installed.  I've done lights and a ceiling fan by myself before, but considering the height and everything, and second set of hands was really helpful.  The brother is also much taller.  Now, we have a fan with 4 lights that is very efficient at cooling and quiet, and not so much of a dust collector.  Fantastic!

Before

After (Yes the downrod is much shorter, but it actually works out well.  The brother was having some issues getting his hand hit by the blades during P90X-2.  That's what he gets for being stinking tall.)