About a month ago, we removed the old ceiling fan in our bedroom. Technically, there was nothing wrong with it except for a serious case of the non-descript.
See (kind of ugly):
The better-half did his magical electrical mojo and made 2 more holes in the ceiling so we could move the ceiling fan closer to our bed and put up lights. It is pretty hard to find ceiling lights that don’t suck. I’m not sure why but the ceiling lights at the Home Depot in my town look like something your grandmother’s grandmother would have put in when electricity finally came to town. If you don’t want track or pendant lights or ugly lights, don’t bother going there.
Of course, we had to be different and we wanted a Hunter ceiling fan with no light kit, in a nickel finish. Those are damn hard to find. We ended up ordering one from an internet company. We also ordered the fan for our screened porch–which, by the way, is nearly and finally done. The internet company was a bit sluggish–something about the Hunter fan not being easy to get–and finally the fans came in today. Before I got home, the better-half installed the one in our bedroom.
That looks so much better! Those old fans with the tulip shade lights were so ugly. I’ve actually seen a few fans with lights lately that weren’t too bad.