Let’s talk about lights today.

Specifically, let’s talk about where they’re made.

Except there’s not much to say. China. That’s about it.

When I walked into the locally owned lighting shop, I asked the smiley woman with jaw-length hair who worked there, “Do you sell lights from any companies that manufacture products in the United States?” She looked at me like I was speaking a foreign language. Noooo, I thought. I didn’t just accidentally say that in German, did I?

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This was our kitchen in the airplane hangar loft on the day before Halloween, waiting for its fly ash and recycled glass countertops like a cake waits for frosting.

We’re still in the process of unpacking, donating what we don’t need, and just doing the general where-is-the-___ hunt that comes with any new house, so let me jump back in time to show you the brave, crazy process of installing your own countertops.

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Did you notice some of the matching characteristics between the kitchen we just built (yes – it’s still quite chaotic!):

And the one we built in Germany:

We must have drawn up 30 plans for this new kitchen in the hangar loft. Before we knew it, we were carving out a plan for something that looked like an idea we had years ago. Guess we know what we like!

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