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So, my wife took the kids to the movies and left me the task of installing a new light above our vanity in the kids' bathroom. When we moved in, there was a mirror that was bolted in to the wall. We took it down and put up a framed hanging mirror in its place. It's really nice looking. The light fixture was ca. 1960. It had cracked paint flower petals that held "flame" bulbs when we moved in. During the Summer, we were at Costco in Charlotte and we found an Energy Star brushed nickel one that we liked on the clearance shelf for under $30, so we picked it up.
Our house is very old, and there was no mounting box, so I got one that has these screw braces that go out and pull it back against the sheetrock since I wasn't mounting it next to a stud. I took down the mirror, removed the old fixture, used a hammer to gently make a round hole in the sheetrock to put the mounting box in, installed the box, put in the wiring bracket, wired up the new fixture, put it all in place, put the filial caps on, put the shades on the lights, bulbs in, threw the breaker back, it works and looks nice. I go get the mirror to hang back in place. <REDACTED!> It won't fit; the frame is way too thick.
I checked the one that I installed in our master bathroom, to see if I could swap them, it barely won't fit. The bolted on mirror in the master bathroom isn't the same size as the one that was in the kids' bathroom was. The old mirror got broken this summer (the baby took a header through it, we still don't know how). We do have another bathroom with an OLD fixture in it, so I could get another one and install it, leaving enough room, but my wife has the car.
The 4th dimension, time....I should've thought ahead to the mirror being in the space that was unoccupied while I was working.
Our house is very old, and there was no mounting box, so I got one that has these screw braces that go out and pull it back against the sheetrock since I wasn't mounting it next to a stud. I took down the mirror, removed the old fixture, used a hammer to gently make a round hole in the sheetrock to put the mounting box in, installed the box, put in the wiring bracket, wired up the new fixture, put it all in place, put the filial caps on, put the shades on the lights, bulbs in, threw the breaker back, it works and looks nice. I go get the mirror to hang back in place. <REDACTED!> It won't fit; the frame is way too thick.
I checked the one that I installed in our master bathroom, to see if I could swap them, it barely won't fit. The bolted on mirror in the master bathroom isn't the same size as the one that was in the kids' bathroom was. The old mirror got broken this summer (the baby took a header through it, we still don't know how). We do have another bathroom with an OLD fixture in it, so I could get another one and install it, leaving enough room, but my wife has the car.
The 4th dimension, time....I should've thought ahead to the mirror being in the space that was unoccupied while I was working.
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