Lights!

Can't begin to describe what 8 strategically placed light bulbs can do in making something look like, well, something. The crew flipped the switch on our new (pricey!) electrical upgrade yesterday and everything just popped. The space popped, breakers, lights, etc, are all good, no popping there. This along with more dry wall has made all the difference in getting a better feel for what FA's going to look like when she's all done. Cyrick and I were both happy with what we saw. The crew is stoked because they don't have to work in the dark any longer. Electricity 'aint
cheap!


1) View from the front looking back toward the kitchen and back dining room wall. 2) Hallway, kitchen on left, office on right, bathroom is in the back right corner.


1) A view of the soffit wall directly above the bar. The two black squares are AC registers sans their grills. 2) Ricky 14 feet in the air installed lighting track and drilling the holes for the 4'x6' 35 light chandelier that's going directly over the bar. 200lbs of glass and light, twinkling high above while you eat and drink.


1) Sifu making sure Ricky doesn't fall. 2) The HVAC crew came back today and finished running all the electrical. We should be ready to spark this hog up by the end of business tomorrow.


1) Audrey from Grape Expectations and Gracie-Girl. We had a killer tasting with her on Wednesday and tasted some lovely wine at unbelievable prices. We've scheduled another tasting with Audrey next week to get a better look at 12 more wines that caught our eye. 2) Craig from Wine Warehouse came by today with what's been called "the wine tasting that left the tracks", 24 wines in 2 hours. Even with spitting the alcohol took it's toll. Craig poured some outstanding wines from all over the place. However the 8 or so we tasted from the Santa Barbara area were the highlights. They are doing some great stuff down there, leaving all the bloated BS (wine and egos) to the Napa folks and concentrating on making delicious wine at prices that make sense.


1) Cyrick holding on to our newest Urban Ore find. An 8 light solid brass chandelier (crystals were taken off to wash) that we snagged for $75. We've been doing A LOT of research on lighting (old and new) over the past few months and I can tell you without a doubt that this in any antique shop would be well over $500. This light will grace our bathroom ceiling. Although we're going to miss the tubed fluorescent that's in there now, we'll have to endure this harsh looking piece from here on out. 2) Tommy holding on to 1 of the 3 wall sconces we picked up at Omega Salvage a few months back. They will end up on the dining room wall.

Can't believe it's Friday already. Where's it all going? Tell it to stop.....

More to come.

--JK