WOODEN GARDEN SHEDS DIY
What is best safest permanent lighting for a wooden garden shed house ?
The work on our garden gym is now approaching its end.. Insulation, plastering etc has been completed..
Now we need to figure out what kind of lighting we are going to have.
Our shed is 12foot by 12foot and it is 10foot to 9foot high (sloping roof).
and the builder bought over 2 fire rated spot lights (50w) each and they look like this: http://nextday.diy.com/app/jsp/product/productPage.jsp?productId=54025
I’m not convinced 2 of these will properly light up our big shed. The walls will be painted white and so will the ceiling. Also I’m not sure they will even look good.
I was thinking of going for normal house lights but 2 and just get some energy saver bulbs or just go for one of those long kitchen lights. I need to make up my mind before tomorrow.
Advice would be appreciated.
You could go with your basic fluorescent tube fixture ( http://homeharvest.com/homeharvest2000pics/HFFluorescentFixture48.jpg ). You could either hang them as shown or fasten them up to the ceiling. You can also get more decorator type models that would look better, if you’re concerned about that.
The ones shown are 48 inches long. A couple of these (two tubes each) end to end would definitely light up your shed. You could either operate then from a switch on the wall or even have a pull chain switch on each one.
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