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Lights Coordinate delivery of your lights and your fixtures with the lighting company and your electrician. Do not have your lights delivered until your electrician is going to install them. Have them delivered the same day or have your electrician pick them up if he can. Generally, your insurance company will cover any theft if the lights are installed, but they will not cover them if they are setting in the house not installed. This is an item where you might want to spend a few extra dollars and decorate your new home the way you really want to. Most everyone seems to go over budget and then refuses to spend an extra $500 or $1000 at this point. When you purchase really inexpensive lighting to save a little money, it reflects like a sore thumb in the house. Don’t spend $300,000 or more on your building project and save $200 dollars at the end and not finish is correctly. Additional Tips The difficulty you experience in new construction is you don't have the sense yet of what your house feels like because your not living in it. Unless you have a much better perspective than most people about such things - YOU NEED GUIDANCE - . At least this is how I feel. Think about it. I have delivered many houses to people and if most of them had extreme difficulty in choosing their lights without the help of professional lighting people what makes you think you can do it without the same kind of help. Don't take this personally, I am just trying to guide you in the direction which I think is positive for you. I cannot believe how many people I have seen building a $500,000 house and I see them in Home Depot purchasing lights and thinking they know what to purchase. Think of the scenario like this: You go into the lighting store of your choice. You set down with your plans. In this market there is presently a 6 to 8 week wait time on ordering. Meaning you have to order the lights before the house is dry walled. 3 hours later you walk of the lighting store. Think about it now. The reason you were in the store with the lighting people for 3 hours is because they guided you and answered all of your questions and filled out the order and continued to help you make as many correct decisions as possible. This is no joke folks. Picking out lights for your house is difficult. I cannot tell you how many people spend all of their money up front and then rather then admit the truth to themselves and everyone else that they spent to much money, they inadequately spend too little money lighting their house and diminish the elegance they were trying to create in the 1st place. Oh well, I'll quit lecturing you. Do what you want. I do have one great story though. I had this one customer who went to Home Depot. She picked out all of her lights with her husband. She spent several hours there and picked out the most exquisite lighting system I ever saw. What I mean by exquisite is she lit her house perfectly in terms of light flow. There were very few shadows in her hallways and she had the talent to make her house flow with beauty in terms of light. Only one I ever knew who did such a great job by herself. Sorry if I offended any of you. I am just tired of people coming to me after the fact and saying, "Oh, by the way would you send over your electrician for Free and change some of my lights". |
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