Yesterday, I labored on some actually boring stuff in my walk-in closet, like sanding the drywall mud on the ceiling and getting it prepared for primer and paint. I noticed that this actually did must be performed earlier than I begin on the flooring, so the flooring should wait till Thursday. Anyway, after engaged on the ceiling for some time, my again wanted a break, and I desperately needed to work on one thing enjoyable. So I made a decision so as to add the tape lighting to the jewellery drawer and necklace bar space.
I’ve been so enthusiastic about doing this. In my thoughts’s eye, I believed it might be superb and actually take that space to the following degree. Sadly, that’s not fairly the way it turned out. Let me present you the problems I bumped into and you’ll inform me your ideas.
I began by including lights simply to the again wall of the necklace space after which working them round the entire perimeter of the glass-top jewellery drawer.
On this try, I put the tape lights beneath the wooden body for the glass countertop as near the sting as I might get with out them displaying via the glass.
However after I stood again and checked out it, I didn’t like it. The primary downside was really a faulty part within the strip of lighting. There are two lifeless lights adopted by 4 very dim lights. I do not know why that will occur. The entire lights earlier than these and after these work completely. I didn’t minimize the strip anyplace close to that part, and I solely minimize the surplus off within the space the place it says you’ll be able to minimize the lights. However that lifeless spot could be very noticeable, particularly in individual.
You may see right here, while you’re standing proper on the drawer, the lifeless space adopted by the dim space could be very noticeable. In order that was disappointing proper off the bat. Additionally, I used to be disenchanted that they solely actually lit up the outer sections of the jewellery organizers. The opposite sections had been nonetheless fairly darkish.
But additionally, lighting the again of the necklace space didn’t look something like how I had envisioned it in my thoughts. I believed the lights would make the sparkly necklaces sparkle. That didn’t occur. As a substitute, they only all seem like darkish silhouettes.
So I eliminated the entire tape lighting and redid it. The tape could be very sticky, however I think about you could solely take away and reposition it a couple of times earlier than it begins to lose its stickiness. This time, I believed it would assist if I wrapped the lights across the sides of the necklace space. I additionally determined so as to add the lights alongside the perimeters and again of the cupboard just below the jewellery drawer countertop moderately than having them beneath the glass high body. I believed that with the lights shing out as a substitute of down, that will shed some extra mild into the middle of the drawer moderately than simply lighting up the perimeter sections of the jewellery organizers.
However after I stood again to take a look at that, it actually didn’t enhance the look. Plus, that put the lifeless lights proper within the middle of the again of the jewellery drawer. In different phrases, these lifeless lights had been now in probably the most seen spot. After all, if I preferred the concept, I might have simply exchanged this strand of lights for one which labored, however I nonetheless wasn’t offered on the general look. Wrapping the lights round to the perimeters of the necklace space nonetheless didn’t have the impact I hoped for.
I additionally didn’t like that the sunshine shines via above the jewellery drawer…
And it additionally lights up the realm between the necklace pull out and the cupboard. I don’t essentially need these areas emphasised.
So I made a decision to attempt yet one more factor. This time, I deserted the concept of lighting up the necklace space since that wasn’t turning out like I had envisioned it. As a substitute, I simply added the lights to the jewellery drawer. I preferred that higher, and the great factor is that this association solely required the part of lights proper as much as that lifeless spot within the mild strand, so I used to be in a position to minimize these off utterly.
However I nonetheless didn’t love the sunshine shining via simply above the drawer.
So I simply don’t know. It’s disappointing to have an thought that appears so good in my thoughts however simply doesn’t work out in actuality like I had envisioned it. Ought to I abandon the concept utterly? Do you’ve gotten any solutions? Am I simply not doing it proper? Ought to I be utilizing totally different lights?
I do nonetheless actually like the concept of lighting the necklace part one way or the other, however lighting from the again isn’t the reply. It appears to me that lighting them from the highest is the way in which to go, however that implies that lights must be connected to the underside of the drawer since that’s the one factor above the necklaces. And if I connect lights to the underside of the drawer, they’ll’t be corded since I’ve to have the ability to pull the drawer out. I might attempt some type of battery-operated lights in order that the entire thing may be connected to the underside of the drawer without having to plug in lights, however then I feel it’s all getting means too sophisticated. Battery-operated lights wouldn’t final very lengthy, after which I’d be caught altering batteries commonly. That appears foolish.
So at this level, I’m tempted to desert the concept utterly except somebody has an ideal suggestion for the way I can salvage this concept. Possibly the reply is apparent, and I simply can’t see it. What say you?
Within the meantime, I’ll be priming and portray the ceiling, prepping the again wall for wallpaper (it wants a little bit of sanding as nicely), and getting the entire bed room suite cleared out and cleaned up and prepared for the ground to be sanded. Since I missed my alternative to do the sanding yesterday, the following alternative I’ll have to do this will the Thursday since that’s my subsequent full, uninterrupted workday. I actually don’t wish to hire the sanders for longer than 24 hours, so the day I do it, I have to have every part prepared the evening earlier than in order that I may be at Residence Depot very first thing within the morning to hire the sanders and be capable to use all of them day lengthy. I’m aiming for Thursday, but when I don’t have every part prepared by the point I am going to mattress Wednesday evening, then I’ll intention for Friday. That’s the plan, a minimum of. However y’all know the way plans go. 😀
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I rework and beautify the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do the vast majority of the work on the home on my own. You may study extra about me right here.
