| Kris Krieger 2006-09-06, 1:25 pm |
| "Don" <one-if-by-land@concord.com> wrote in
news:edmf7k022bu@news4.newsguy.com:
> "Kris Krieger"> wrote
>
> I used the rope lights in our last house and my wife wants some in the
> current house.
> We had extensive plant shelves, alcoves and a 22' long plant bridge
> and al of them had switched outlets for plugging in the rope lights.
I didn't see the outlets in the pics you'd had online, but I recall
seeing several niches. Nice touch (so long as there aren't enouch to
make it a pain to keep up with them ;) ). I've seen some that look
quite nice.
((BTW, is it pronounced "neesh" or "nihtch"...?))
> In the evenings we'd have the ropes on and they provided ample
> lighting for getting around without additional table lamps etc.
> If you wanted to read you'd have to turn on a table lamp.
> I was real pleased with the rope lamps.
That sounds pleasant. The things put out a surprising amount of lights,
because the bulbs/LEDs <?> are more closely-set than are "normal"
holiday lights, and the sum total end up being fairly bright. I think
they do well, especially if there is a bit of foliage or
trelliswork/piercework in front of them.
I'd seen a near-to-the-ceiling plant shelf across a living room, using
what had to be rope lights, that I though looked good. I think the
people might have used fake plants, but three are some very decent ones
out these days so what the heck ;)
>
> What would be nice is to be able to cut the ropes to length and then
> have various connectors to create T's, Y's, etc.
>
Connectors used to be sold, but I haven't seen them for a couple years
now. Maybe too many people were zapping themselves.
I'm still a bit stuck on those "filament lights"; someone had posted a
link to one vendor, I think it was posted last year. Those could be
really tacky but I think that they could also look good if used
correctly. Alcove lighting seems like a potential non-tacky use ;)
A single direct light is ogten used in alcoves, I suppose to highlight
'objets d'art', but IMO they're usually much too bright and too narrowly
focused.
I keep looking for (or trying to figure out a way to adapt holiday
lights to) some way to have small lights, from one ot maybe 5, on a long
cord, that can be used inside of small items - candles are a pain,
between the fire hazard, continual need for replacement, smell, and
soot. There are battery-powered "fake candles" now, designed to look
sort of like tea lights, but then the batteries continually need to be
replaced. Anyway, I think something like that could be a good companion
to small rope lights - use them inside of openwork ceramic, pottery, or
metal items, or inside of glass containers, and so on.
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