Our #1 (Ceiling) Fan

We made another teensy bit of progress in our room! That’s two projects in a row! (We can’t really say we ignore the upper half of the house anymore, can we?) Say hello to our snazzy new ceiling fan:

Ignore that tan blob around the mounting plate. Now we know the color of the original ceiling.

I should warn you up front that this isn’t an instructional post. Mr. Fan had 900 little parts to assemble first and it got dark before Hubsey finally attached him to the ceiling, which meant I had to hold the flashlight instead of the camera. The instructions in the box were good, though, so if you end up getting one of these attractive specimens for yourself, you’ll be fine.

Let’s take a gander at the old fan we inherited from the previous owners. Note the chippy paint on the end of the blades and flower-shaped light covers:

It’s rare that something about the house bugs Hubsey more than it bugs me, but that fan was one of them. I didn’t love the thing, but I was able to ignore it after a while. Maybe because they painted it white? I don’t know. For some reason my brain was like, “Meh, not a priority.” But now that we have the new one up there lookin’ all cute, I’m glad he was annoyed enough to get the ball rolling. I could’ve easily pretended it wasn’t there for another year.

There’s not a ton of contrast in our room (yet) so I’m glad to get something a little darker in the mix. Now that we’ve settled on the big stuff–wall color, bedding, this fan–I want to get into some real decorating. Most of the artwork is stuff I just threw up there because I was tired of looking at nothing, so now I want to do it right. I wouldn’t mind finding some accessories for the dresser, either.

Oh yeah, and we have to paint the ceiling. Can’t leave that ring o’ tan around the cover plate! Maybe we’ll flip a coin: one person has to paint the ceiling and the other can rake leaves. That sounds equally terrible, right?

Have you ever installed a ceiling fan? Do you even have them in your house? (Stylistically I’d prefer something else, but it gets enough here that we need them.) What quirk about your house can you magically ignore?

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