Lighting Our Way

We are revamping our front yard this year....like totally re-doing it.  Over the weekend John has pulled out 8 bushes/trees.  Now we have to start replacing what's been yanked out.

This afternoon we worked out changing out the lighting.  We have one wall-mounted light next to the door and lamp post further down the walk.

Before:

This is from last spring- see those cheap, granny looking railings?  They have also been pulled out. 

After:

Question-  This is the 7in fixture....is it too small or in-proportional????   It also comes in 9in option but that doesn't have the motion sensory feature.  Should I switch it out?

Lamppost before:

During:

After:

What did I do while John was switching out light fixtures? 

Spray painting. Our house is up on a hill, so there are a second set steps leading down to the sidewalk and it's railing had seen better days.

Before:

After: 

Hard to get a decent photo of that spot, but the paint makes a big difference-looks a lot less trashy now.  And yes, I got paint on the plants but those plants will be gone in a few weeks.

While I was at it, I used the Rustoleum dark brozen hammered paint on the lamp post. I'll share what else I did to the post tomorrow. 

What did you do this weekend?