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One day I was watching ASK This Old House, my fav' and they were adding pendant lights to an existing kitchen because of poor lighting. We were having the same problem so I decided to put some above my island in my kitchen.


My friend just happened to pay me via Lowe's gift card for work that I did for her. The card would pretty much cover it. I was all set. The only problem with this project was I didn't have access above my kitchen so I cut a hole in the ceiling of the garage

and found about 20 in. of blown insulation that I needed to dig through to find

beams to walk on and where I needed to anchor my lights. After digging for a while I decided to cut a small hole where the lights were to go and I pushed the handles of my croquet mallets through the ceiling up into the insulation so I could locate them faster. It worked! I also had photos that I took during construction in case of projects like this.





The coolest part is that I found two huge spaces 6-7ft tall x 9-10ft wide x 24ft long that I could use for storage.SWEET!


Now I need to find out how to add one of those hide away stair things that you pull down.