The Battle of the Cheap-Ass Light Fixture

As part of our powder room project, The Colonel and I installed a light fixture today. It was a cheap thing from Lowes, with just a little pizzazz, but the install was a comedy of errors.

To begin with, the mounting hardware refused to work with an outlet box, which meant we had to drill holes for it. Then the fixture itself was bent out of shape, and we had to mess with it. The whole time I kept muttering about how you get what you pay for, and what do you expect from slave labor (made in China) which didn't endear me to The Colonel, who takes these sorts of projects very seriously.

There are those who design fixtures (you know who you are) and they do high quality stuff that looks good. But this wasn't anything like that - it was just some dumb-ass Lowes POS. But it was cheap and cheerful, and will do until we find some sort of snazzy, pizzazzy, gorgeousy thing.