The big room presents some challenges to heating and cooling the house evenly throughout the year, as well as challenges to lighting the space.
O. G. Sam chose two fans for the room, sleek but also reminiscent of a fan from, say, a hard-boiled detective's office.
The fans do double duty as light fixtures.
In order to light the room without creating a strobe effect with the fans, Sam designed an uplight: a galvanized tray with LED tube lighting inside.
Dave figured out how to fabricate and hang the trays. This involved cutting, bending, burnishing, and cleaning the steel, which now has the finish of a favorite kitchen knife.
Electrician Sam made the uplights work.
Oh, yeah: they dim. Now—after Dave slithered through a hole he cut in the extremely narrow attic in order to run a low-voltage line to each of the trays. LED dimming is still an inexact science.
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| The rat-run from outside |
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| And inside |
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| Two wires now coil around the cables suspending the lights. |
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| Fans and lights operational. Note the pink shift the lights caused in the camera. |
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