It's about time. It's not that the lights themselves are that terrible, but they were in the completely wrong place on the wall and did not fit in at all with the rest of the house. Don't be fooled by the seriously heavy duty screws that held them up - they're cheap and flimsy and I'm not sad to see them go.
Unfortunately, I think some of you are going to consider my solution to be, in fact, worse than the lamps themselves. You see, when you take a lamp like this off the wall you can't just stuff the wires back in the wall and plaster over it. That would be dangerous. I also didn't want to go through the expense and hassle of removing all the wires from the wall and I had to consider the fact that that subsequent homeowners might want to reinstall lights on that wall. Soooo, I just popped a blanking plate on the holes. A little weird, but I find those little white plates a lot less visually offensive than the lamps themselves.
It will look a ton better when the walls are painted white.
Not bad. You can also see Plato and Sascha are having one of their silent staring contests that inevitably results in Sascha taking a flying leap at/body-slamming Plato. She knows this (along with gnawing his ear) is the best way to goad Plato into a bout of vicious sounding but actually quite harmless wrestling. This usually continues until one of them runs into something, causing it to move or make a scary noise, at which point they both look around guiltily until Sascha catches Plato's eye again. Stare-bodyslam-wrestle-scarynoise-guiltylooks-stare-bodyslam.... welcome to my world.
