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On the market, you will find a wide array of lighting fixtures, which make up great bathroom accessories. The lightings include the soft touch, and the highlights. It is up to you to choose the right lighting to fit your setting. Keep in mind however that your lighting contributes to the environment.

How to choose bathroom lighting:

It depends on your needs. Some people will restrict lighting sources, which may be inextricable wiring systems. Others may enjoy the common flexible ululation. Still, other people may enjoy lighting that enhances the atmosphere and mood. Thanks to technological advances, you can now choose light bulbs and fixtures that are suitable for your needs, no matter what those needs may be.

How so I choose the right style for my bathroom?

When choosing a style for your bath, you must consider the selection of fixtures and light bulbs. Lighting enhances the character of a room, which is something you want to keep in mind as well. If you have a hard time seeing, you may want to choose brighter lights and fixtures. On the other hand, if your vision is good, you may enjoy fluorescent lights, which is my favorite.

In addition, you have the option of choosing mood lights, which helps you to establish a relaxing mood. The mood lights give similar affects as does the candles. You also have the option of choosing brilliant, gentle lighting. You want to study this lighting, since it is more intense than other types of lighting. Kerosene lamps are available as well. The soft lights present an old-fashion atmosphere. Better yet, the lamps rather give you an outdoor feeling.

How do I know how high of a beam to use with my lights?

Once you pick out your style that you want, it will be easy to decide on the right beam you will need. The different kinds of beams make up the narrow beams, which are around three to 25 degrees. Wide beams are over forty degrees, which the beam is similar to a floodlight. The forty-degree is the preferred choice for most, which casts beams as a floodlight.

What are kind of effects do you get from lighting?

You can also choose your effect. Natural lighting is based on tone, texture, and color. Florescent lights cast a blue-greenish or black-purplish beam. Still, you can find a wide array of colors.

Wall lights, which are mounted to the walls, are nice as well. You can find the chandeliers, pure glass, and so forth. Ceiling lights are also mounted to the ceiling, which you can find a wide array of fancy designs as well, including chandelier. Stand up lights enable you to move the lamp anywhere you please. The lights are available, which you can choose your bulbs to deliver the beam you desire.

Online you will find a wide array of lighting, including fixtures to match. Over the Internet, you have the advantage, since you can view images of a selected lamps, lighting, fixtures, etc. In addition, you have the option of choosing other bathroom accessories to contrast your new product. Ultimately, if you are crafty you can purchase materials and invent your own bedside lights, illumination, and fittings.

No matter what you are searching, to accomplish nowadays you have many options. At what time you choose bathroom accessories however, such as lighting and fixtures alchoices consider the style of your bathroom first. For instance, you would not want to install a fancy stand up light and fixture in a kid’s bathroom. You would only put your children at risk.

........................................................ 4/12/2012 above ...........
island update 4/11 ..... ok, were coming along now ... after working out the construction details with the full size corner mockup in the two photos at the bottom of this post, we started actual construction by building the kick space directly on top of our full size cardboard layout drawing. on this drawing seen below, (a bad image, poorly photoshopped to compensate for low contrast and glare) we laid out our cabinet and corner post lines, the sink, and inverted between the orange lines, our vertical section which shows panel and face frame details .. click the photos to enlarge them ....
from that drawing and the original mockup, we turned our round column bases that the octagon columns sit on. we then drilled the rounds for timberlock lag screws which we used to attach the round bases to the tablesawn octagons. the orange arrows on those indicate the sawn faces which came out ever so slightly smaller than the planed faces ... it seems impossible to get them all perfectly the same size but we wanted the face that our face frames attached to to be all the same size. follow that? good for you. we notched the octagons for the face frames and routed L shaped recesses in the round bases for the little bead moldings that allowed us to transition the beveled tops of the turnings to the panels. got that? really good ... i think you can see that detail in the mockup too.
i forgot to mention we also had to cut a freehand corner out of each round where it intersected the toe space on the bandsaw before attaching the whole deal to the kick with more timberlocks ... got that?... im trying not to bore you with all the details; but there were certainly a lot of things to think about on this project before we could even begin ...
now were on to the more straightforward part of the construction where we build the boxes and add the face frames and panels ...
one more shot of the base with its curly maple kick faces and all the columns in place.
and we had a moment where we stopped to appreciate mother natures veneer work with the naked lady doing a handstand ... fun!part of the project was that the owner would supply the wood, but after struggling mightily to make silk purses from not so great material, the owner graciously allowed us to get a bunch of matched curly maple lumber from our friends at irion, and you just cant believe how much happier we all are ... piece after consistent piece .... beautiful panel after beautiful panel, matched drawer face with matched drawer face ... its a true pleasure to work with their stuff ....
tomorrow we will finish the frame joinery and assemble it all for a test fit before gluing all the panels up .... more as we move it along ... were liking it ...

3/27/12

we have a new kitchen island project getting underway in the shop ... all natural curly maple with a stone top. open shelves,drawers, a recess for seating, pretty straightforward except for the octagonal columns on the corners .... finished my full size mockup today and once that is approved, well have at it ... click the photos to enlarge them ...
here are the cad drawings that we made from the owners graph paper layouts ... the plan view shows some of the complications where the octagonal columns meat the panels and cabinetry and open shelves but conceptually at least, i think we have it worked out .... were currently working from a full size 4 x 8 cardboard plan view which is a great tool for making cut lists and box sizes. we find the full size things can minimize errors and they dont take too long to create ...
since i sent these photos to the client, i thought i might add these examples of other islands we have built in case you are thinking about designing one yourself. the island above is in my home ... cherry counters with tile around the stove; the seating on the end is where we live, lunch and dinner, good for up to 5 people seated ...
and we built this one in 2007 i think ... it even made it into house beautiful ... actually, it was one of my very first blog posts in october of 2007
another view of it ... the rest of the kitchen and the reclaimed chestnut stools are ours too ...
and heres a nice walnut island for the same client who got the walnut paneled room in 2009...another wash painted island, very similar in detailing to my own kitchen ... we did some tin punching on that project ... and then theres the big island ... almost a continent by some reports ... quartered white oak
and here we arrive at the mockups for our new project ... the octagons seemed simple until i actually had to add the kick spaces and the turned round pedestals ...
the base will be the first piece and it will have a 3/4" top that the cabinetry will be attached to from above ... like a really big puzzle ... more photos as we progress ....

on site but the house isnt quite finished

TODAY ONLY...DONT DELAY!!

O.k. now that Ive got your attention...whats up with the screws in my ECE (Primus) Block Plane.? Not a straight head or flat head, a square head er,,...a Robinson here across the border. No. It has two, sort of softish, poorly machined metal Phillips style screws.? Hmmm....
This really boggled my mind, which obviously doesnt have enough to worry about these days. It seemed to me that this may actually be an error. No, not the name of the kind of screw head it is, but an actual manufacturing error. I think the original design was meant to have heavier and a more universally accessable screw style on the lever cap. After all, it was manufactured by a dependable company thats has been making wooden bodied, European style hand planes for years now. Ahhh, but there lies the question; are they still assembled where theyre actually manufactured? This is my question and this is the story. Let me take you back a bit to tell you how I arrived at this mystery.
As it goes recently, I was working with some nice Walnut, putting a chamfer on the edge of a foot-board, bed-rail. I decided to actually take the time to mark out the chamfer in an attempt at giving the bed a slightly modern feel. Funny how a simple detail such as this can change the over-all look and feel of a piece of furniture; allow me to elaborate. Seeing as the rail in question will be the last thing you (my clients) touch before you, or should I say-they, crawl into your/they (you get the picture!) bed. That private or perhaps not so private sanctuary where God knows what takes place; this rail needed to be relived of any harsh or sharp edges. My first thought was to use my handmade rosewood Hollowing plane; a gentle round-over would be nice to the touch. I opened my tool cabinet to reach for the 3/4" Hollowing Plane and there it is, my ECE Block plane, starring at me. I havent picked this poor old dog up in the past six months Im sure. In a moment of haste and blind romanticism I lifted up the short, rather plump beach wood vessel from the darkness of the tool cabinet and dusted it off. It felt different from what I remembered; sleeker and a little more refined. I grabbed my Lie-Nielson, Gunsmith styled flat head screwdriver, you know the ones, all pretty with brass ferules and turned out of hardwood. I placed the plane down on my work bench and lowered my hands around its body; cradling the block, I attempted to un-screw the lever cap..." My God" I cried. "It has Phillips style screws in it!" Shaken, yet determined I went back to my tool chest and found an old Phillips style screwdriver. It was hidden in a kind of suspended animation, lying there quietly under a pile of old Hockey cards I used to have back in the days when I used to use these Phillips style wood screws. I focused at the job at a hand and removed them. Slowly, backing them out of the Beech wood. Turning and twisting they started to bend and tear, a little at first and then a bit more. That Star shaped Phillips head, gleaming and proud, cast into each and every one of its kind. Cmon, really does anyone still use these things? Apparently so, I thought to myself.
Once I had the cutting iron out of the finely machined plane body, I sharpened it like no other blade I know of. Honing and re-shaping, polishing and rubbing until finally, ready as the day it was born, I put it back into the plane. "Ahh, those damn Phillips screws again." I stumbled through my screw and bolt bins to find a couple of Square-Head machine screws, suitable for the job with no danger of getting stripped. I picked up my old friend and brought it over to my work bench; the walnut trapped, pressed between my bench dogs like an offering of sorts to the newly reclaimed Block plane. I thought about my James Krenov-custom made Smoothing plane and my heavy in hand and perfectly produced Lie-Nielson Bronze #4. I thought about the planes of old, wooden bodies alike. I saw the similarities in the shape and body of the block. I pressed the sole to the crest of the stock and pushed ahead taking that first virgin shaving, peeling it off like an outter layer of skin. It purred almost like an animal, tearing through some prey; and then suddenly stopped. A grabbing-action and choking sputter, followed with tear-out from the stock. I took it back and waxed the sole, adjusting the iron and starting again, it hiccuped and then staggered. I thought again of my finely tuned arsenal of quality made hand tools, ready to use right out of the box. No fussing, reliable; a true joy to use. I walked back over to my tool cabinet and slowly swung open the door, and quietly, almost secretly, placed the little block plane back inside. Until next time old friend, I guess you really do get what you pay for.

**This story was a work of Fiction. If it sounds like a hand plane you have or have ever heard of, it must surely be coincidence. In defence of the Character plane of the story, I do like using my ECE Block plane as well as the larger bodied Jack plane by Primus I have. Just so happens, I didnt like using it yesterday morning to do some fine tuning on the piece of Walnut I have in my shop at the moment. Funny how hand planes can be so cranky at times. Both are available through mail order at Lee Valley Tools and both are very reasonably priced.
"This is a good all-purpose wooden plane at an almost affordable price!"