Noobies VÜ

Woo hoo, I now have a new range and microwave! Both are a beautiful black and are marvelous, I can feel myself becoming more intelligent and prettier by the moment.
some picture goodness (as always, click to embiggen):


The installation was a bit of a mess, apparently the guy hasn't lived here long and went to LaVerkin instead of Ivins. (for those of you out of the area that's about 35 miles in the opposite direction) So I had to wait for him to get there. Killed my lunch hour. Then when he got there he had a few issues (not all of them sartorial but that was a biggie- look it up. lol) but I guess my cabinets had some hard wood to drill or whatever, my advice, get a new bit. After he finally got it in he went to open it and, I am sitting in the living room mind you, he pipes up, "uh-oh". Don't know about you but this is not a phrase I like hearing when someone is installing stuff. Turns out that Frigidaire didn't make it so the hinge on the door took no extra space. So, since the microwave is hard against the wall, when you open the door the front edge hits the wall before it's half way open. sigh... looks like I have a project ahead of me. I need to scootch the cupboards over half an inch or so. An hour later, appliances installed and all was mostly right with the world.

I also recently changed out my lighting fixture in the bathroom, the old one was hideous. A little before:


and after with dimming action: