Before and After: Switching out those, er, switches!

It's been nearly 4 (!!!) months since we moved into our new house. Projects abound and while several things are in progress, nothing can actually be considered "done". We are a family of list-checker-offers so this is really annoying. I guess we did get an exterior door cut to turn the sunroom into a mudroom, but I'm not going to post about that yet because the mudroom as a whole is incomplete. Right now Jason is building out the benches and as of yesterday, things look like this.

Which means our foyer looks like this.

Due to all the junk that we used to hide in the sunroom but now we can't because it's becoming a mudroom. See how that works.

When Kari and Ben came to visit when we first moved. Ben taught Jason how to change light switches and outlets. Some of the existing fixtures were yellowed, the outlet plates were cracked, and the style was very basic. And we are not basic! No, we are not. I wanted dimmers! And wide toggles! And illumination when it is dark! And those outlets that have a USB port built in! All of those exclamatory features. I was willing to work for it too.

HAHA just kidding that is totally staged. Jason let me snap on one cover of one outlet and that was it.

But now, 90% of the switches and outlets in our house have been upgraded. We have one-ways, two-ways, three-ways, dimmers, backlit switches, decorative plates, the works!

The outlets have gotten a refresher as well.

Our house is very amply wired. There are outlets and switches all over the place so this was no small job. I'll tell you what also won't be a small job: the door hardware. Because, this:

The hinges don't match the locking piece that don't match the front doorknob that don't match the back doorknob. Pretty much everywhere. Also, because some of our house is new, the hardware is new. Because some of our house is old, well, it's like this post of yore. I really don't want to spray paint again. The point is that the doors and knobs are messy and I don't like messy. This is on my master project list and it is not even close to being checked off. Things just take awhile, especially when you have two full time working parents and two kids. Also when your list is 7 pages long and includes small things like "Complete Kitchen Renovation" and "Re-do downstairs bathroom - full gut to install glass shower instead of tub". 

Anyway, I've been wanting to post some sort of evidence that we are working on our house projects... voila! I'm not far from sharing our new photo wall, and shortly after that...our new mudroom...see you soon!