when the lights are goin' down in the city.

Today I'm attempting to order the recessed lights. I decided on five-inch cans (good band name there on a number of levels) as six-inchers are a little big (there's a couple of oddly placed six-inch ones in the big room currently which will be removed), and the four-inchers are sexy, but probably too small/focused. After much internet hunting, good ol' Home(less) Depot seems to be the way to go, but of course they don't make it easy, because the enclosures can only be bought at the store, but the brushed metal trim rings are available only online. Really?!? Get it together guys- literally.

They're currently checking at the local store to see if they have the enclosures, which I'm betting they don't (given the general Home Depot incompetence, I don't expect a call back). Since it's cheaper to buy them in six-packs, I'm buying three for a total of 18 lights. Sounds excessive, but as previously mentioned, I'm installing ten in the kitchen/living room, and the family room will need another six. Since it's all kind of one room (only divided by the fireplace), I want to get them all at once so I don't end up with mismatched lights later. That said, probably only the trim rings are important to match, but I'm playing it safe. Here's what they'll look like:

Made of real metal and everything! Right now I'm doing the fun part, which is selecting which sexy Lutron dimmer(s) I'll be using. Which is really tough, because they have a gaggle of really neat looking ones (BTW, you know you're a super-obsessive nerd if you get excited about dimmers). We could do the very authentic classic mid-century modern Centurion:
Or the almost-as-classic Nova (Carl Sagan not included):

Or finally, the more modern Lyneo:

They have bunch of other neat ones, but many of them have really tiny dimmer controls. These are the most ergonomically sound ones (listen to how pretentious I sound...). Whatever I chose, it'll be black with brushed silver plates. I already started this trend when I replaced the outlets in the kitchen last week.

BTW, I just found a place on Amazon that sells all this crap called "Dim N Dimmer". Not making that up. Very clever.