~Change Your Light, Change Your Home Life~

I'm not sure where to begin with this one because when I think about how long I waited to change this ugly, beat-up, and broken fixture, I want to hang my head in shame. I mean, this light fixture (the old one) looks as if it should be attached to an abandoned house. Funny enough, I am not the only person who has neglected these things.. Yes, I see you-I understand your pain. Hey it is understandable and fixable. I got you!

This is how you change an exterior light fixture:

First things, first. Make sure your circuit breaker is completely shut down.

• Unscrew your old fixture.You will then see plastic caps covering your wire ends. Black wires, white wires and copper ground wires.

• Unscrew all of the plastic caps, then untwist the wires and remove the old mount.You are now going to screw on the new mount. There will be a metal piece that you will screw your fixture into it allows you to adjust your mount as needed.

• You will then begin to connect wires. Twist the ground wire with ground wire from fixture-add cap.

• Twist white wire with white wire-add cap, twist black wire with black wire-add cap.When you are twisting the wires together make sure you are twisting clockwise.

• Next, twist and tuck all of the wires neatly behind the light fixture base.

• Then, secure your base to the wall. There are two screws that come on the side.I was lucky enough to have one of mine fall into the grass…will search when I have more patience.

• Lastly, insert bulb and done.

There you have it. It really is surprisingly simple.

Add art to your home on a dime:

My basement bathroom irks me to no end. Why? It needs work. To spruce it up a bit, I figured I would add some art to the walls. However, I did not want to spend any big money, and since I am a resourceful girl I took a trip to my new favorite place, Dollar Tree! I wanted to get some frames that were solid/decent enough to spray. Typically, I would visit Home Goods or some other store, but as I mentioned I wanted to keep cost low- real low. Therefore, I purchased these babies for $1.00 each, removed the glass and backing, then sprayed them with Rust-oleaum in oil rubbed bronze. I let them dry for about 30mins. My next step was even simpler, I searched the internet for some sketches of insects. I used sketches so that they would look more art like; printed, cut to size, and voila! Total cost $3.21.