kmcg, did the tree have replacement bulbs with it? They usually do. Ours were taped to the "trunk" section. The trick is, the small lights are all different. It may be hard to find one that will work. They taught me to pull the green part of the bulb from the socket, then pull just the glass part of the bulb from it. You can insert another glass part (they are interchangeable), but you may have to pull the wires apart and thread them through holes in the base, if there are any. The key is that the wires need to make contact with the base of the socket. I've described how mine worked, yours may be different. If you can, I'd go to the place where you got the tree and see if they have bulbs that are exactly like the ones you have. (You'll need to bring a bulb in with you.) Sounds like a pain, and it is, but once you get the hang of this it's no big deal.

You GW kitchen guys are awesome! I love it that I can get objective opinions. Taggie your kitchen is beautiful, I'm saving it to show KD what I had in mind, thanks for sharing. I'm shorter , 5' 4, and was thinking along the same lines as blfenton, that high space too high for it to be functional to me, even for storage space. 2little fishes, I have 8 ft ceilings also, this was my idea to help draw the eye up and hopefully make it seem taller. As far as cabinets being squat, another reason I was leaning towards using them. I'd rather have the space broken up than have cabinets seem long and narrow ( like I have now). Hoping they would give depth, like Steph2000 said. Displaying pottery would be cool. I finally decided to throw out our 12 year old formal dining room with formal dining set including matching hutch/buffet. My hutch is full of ...you guessed it ... crystal and glass stuff . What to do with it all ? Since the hutch/buffet is going, I though my favorite pieces would be pretty up there, maybe dressed down a bit mixed with pottery or something like that. I think we'd all love to see more pictures of kitchens with those little uppers and find out what you put in them. BTW: is there an offical name for those small upper cabinets, if not what should we call them?

This is the last year for our 8' pre-lit tree. We got it probably 10 years ago at Lowe's. I loved it because it had 1,100 white lights that stay on, don't blink. It was a beautiful tree, but after all those years of being squished down into the box, it is looking worn and shedding needles like crazy. We had the top section of lights go out after the first year but it was still under warranty and they sent us a whole new top section. Until this year, we had no other light issues. When hubs set it up this year, three sections of the four had 2-3 branches that would not light. We used strands of 50, which is about what were out, for 2 of the 3 sections. The last section went out after I had put on the ornaments and it was only 2 branches, go figure. Since it was in the back of the tree, I didn't bother replacing the strand. I don't know why 2-3 branches would go out but anyway, its going out on the curb this weekend. Usually someone comes along and takes things like that so maybe they will fix it. We haven't been able to find another one with that many lights on it. Now the 8' ones have alot fewer lights, maybe LEDs but still not enough for me. We live in hot Florida, so real trees don't last until Christmas. Most places get shipments from just before Thanksgiving until the first weekend in Dec. After that its slim pickings. We haven't had but 2 days out of the 80's the entire month. Too hot for a real tree.

I can't give you a review (yet), I just bought 2 Tokeshimi 40" mirrors, not installed yet. But I also was looking at adjustable color temp ones since I don't think I want to go above 3000K, plus dimming and anti fogging. My other choice was Robern, they make high quality, beautiful mirrors, but much more expensive. Since I'm already over my budget, I decided to go with Tokeshimi instead.