You Light up my Life

We are starting to see all our choices coming to reality. We are moving along nicely and hope to be in by the last of April. The walls are in and sanded down to a flat, soft finish, the floors are waiting to be roughed up and stained. Almost all the tile is complete, there are plenty of paint samples up on the walls. The trim is going in and and up it almost every room. But I wanted to follow up with a project started ages ago or it seems that way to me.

We started with this box hanging outside over the entrance to the Utility room. I wanted to save as we have demo'd so much that I was wondering if we would have any charm left. So my sweet husband (who is such a Renaissance man) removed it from over the door and handed it to me.
I jumped on the opportunity to strip it and see what lay beneath. See this post: Now you see it, now you don't As you can see from that post it was not pretty at all even after three coats of stripper and wire brush. So up it went on the shelf in the garage until my sweet husband got a new toy.... A DREMEL, it was like Christmas morning only better, probably because I did not have to go to bed at 2:00 am after helping Santa put out the toys! He just went to store and purchased it himself! And it truly has a million and one uses.

Here is where we started: coated with at least ten layers of paint.

After three to four applications of stripper and wire brushings. Still rough, but thrilled to see it was once the house numbers and a light for the Utility entrance.

After I removed the glass carefully, this is what was inside rusted metal and old wiring. (which we are all more than familiar with)

Here is the glass by itself with house numbers on it and lots of caulk and paint all around the edges.

Here is the miracle of the Dremel... (man I love that thing and my sweet husband)!!! You can see some of the rust holes but it almost looks brand new and ready for ( dare I say it...) a new coat of paint.

Here is the top and mounting bracket after the Dremel treatment and before paint.

This is glass cleaned and ready for new house numbers. The numbers behind the glass are copies of the original ones that will be painted on the glass before it is installed in the light.

This photo shows the new coat of paint on the lantern to match the new hardware that will be installed on the new Utility door.

Once again the bracket and mounting hardware with a new coat of matching paint.

And last but not least the old light socket and new socket with wonderful up to date wiring.
Enjoying the process and can not wait to show you all the updates.
Happy Friday.