Maintenance Lighting

Last trip we came with brand new lights for the upper veranda lighting.  But on trying out one fixture, just did not care for how it changed the character of the upper veranda.  The reason behind the attempt to change was that several bulb holders just did not function anymore. 

We had long had three same fixtures on the stairs coming up which matched the four veranda fixtures.  Originally we had a wood mask with a light behind it as the center fixture.  But with Bedroom 2 finished, we liked the look of it there on the inside walls...





On this trip, Jim took down all of these fixtures, took them completely apart, cleaned them, and after checking integrity of the wire, and making a few deft snips and restrips, reassembled each of the fixtures.  This time, and for the first time ever, we had FIVE fixtures across the upper veranda all the same.  The photo above is from right after installing the rebuilt fixtures.  As you can see, all now work.

This next photo was taken that night, without flash so one can get the full effect of the five properly functioning lights.  We both think this came out perfectly.  Further, the light cast on the floor comes exactly to the edge of the tile. 

The other feature from our October trip was that of the five light covers of the "new" veranda fixtures, the glass broke in one of them. 

So the choice came down to using all four on the lower veranda, or use the smaller version of the upper veranda fixtures there.  Choosing to have the light shine out more towards the driveway, as well as up and down, we decided to put the new stainless square fixtures along the stair. 

This first photo above shows the lights installed right after applying (part of) the new wall color (so that there was paint behind the fixtures).  This second photo was a flash free nighttime photo showing What these lights look like at night.