Bar lamp saga
Tonight the saga of the bar lamp continued. You might remember from my kitchen post that the lamp to be hung over the bar was broken. Well, it turned out not actually to be broken (ah-hem) … there was a loose wire in our creative extension wiring, and when we fixed that, the light suddenly worked! Go figure. Of course, once the light worked, I had one look at it and decided it was way too ugly to hang up.
So tonight we went light shopping again - traded the old bar lamp for a new one - only when we got home and started hanging up the light, it was metal on metal. Tim’s stone drill bit was ripped to shreds, so we discovered the hard way that at least one of the holes we need to drill to hang the new light up is positioned right on the metal beam that must run above the bar. Sigh. By then it was 10pm so we decided the neighbors would probably come blow us up if we continued trying to drill through the beam.
Tomorrow we are going to fill the holes from the first lamp, fill the hole that is positioned close to the beam, and drill a few new holes that hopefully won’t hit metal so quickly. Of course, first I’m going to go stock up on drill bits at the hardware store. Wish us luck! If it’s a success I’ll post pictures ;)