Let There be Light.... But Not Too Much

Earlier this year during Summer, our hallways in this house of seven Studio Flats fell

into darkness. So the Management Agency called in the Electricians. And over two days

they were left baffled and were unable to repair the faults. So the outcome was to rip out all the

old lighting and replace it with LED lights on each landing floor.

For me LED lighting seems more suitable for a Hospital including an Operating Theatre,

which is why our three landing floors now looked over bright and quite clinical, not to mention

dazzling to the eye.

So I had the idea of diffusing the lights by making a sort of bespoke lampshade, producing

two. One for the larger middle floor as well as one for our smaller top floor outside my Flat.

The House tenants seem pleased with the results. Most of them are aware that I used

to manage the House for the previous Landlord, even personally showing and vetting

prospective new tenants, and all on top of my day job back then.

And I suppose this little project was a challenge to make something made to measure, and

something you couldn't buy. It also distracted me from being online for almost a week. So these

are the results below. And I might even be tempted to make another bespoke lampshade for the

ground floor front entrance hallway sometime in the future.