Our family room when we first moved in. So very, very dark. We painted it back in September, but I wanted to call attention to the lights in the room. Originally when we moved in there was an ugly ceiling fan and an old can light in front of the fireplace that didn't work.
We replaced the ceiling fan and added a new light in front of the fireplace, as you can see in the picture below. The only problem was, both lights and the fan where on the same switch. Which meant if you wanted the ceiling fan on, you had to have the light on in front of the fireplace. Not so great for warm movie nights.
So I came up with the idea of buying one of the remote kits for ceiling fans. I figured it would work with a light, and therefore you would be able to turn the light off with the remote, even when the ceiling fan was going. The remote kits sell for about $20 at the home improvement stores.
And viola......the light can be turned off independently of the fan.
Unfortunately the room is still very dark. There really isn't any natural light that comes into the room. Which is great for watching movies, but hard for taking pictures. I still plan on working on the fireplace wall, someday it will be brighter in there.
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