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7/2/04 - Still Finished! I just wanted to add these few photos, shot at night to show the lighting. I used a combination of two kits by Malibu lighting. One kit had the rectangular ones, another kit had some stick-in-the-ground lantern-looking lights, and some spotlights. I used the rectangle ones around the deck railing, and down the stairs. I used two of the lantern lights at the top of the steps, and I was going to use one of the spotlights for the pool, but it wasn't bright enough and just kinda made a small circle of light in the middle, so I bought a low-voltage, 20watt floodlight. That works great- not too bright, and not too dim. In addition, I made some small rectangular lights to go along the step between the main deck and the walkaround. They're not meant to be bright, just enough light to show there's a step there. |
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| This one shows the lantern lights I mounted on the gate posts. I drilled down about 8 inches so I could hide the wires below the deck rail. | My wife and my brother relaxing, enjoying the deck. | |
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| Plastic chest to keep some of the toys. Also, you can see one of the step lights. | Here, you can see both of the step lights. I made these lights by using two outdoor electric boxes, lights from the rectangular lights that were part of the kit I bought (same ones that are on the railing posts), and then I took some rectangular light switch plates, and glued in some small rectangles cut from plastic frosted drop ceiling light grills. Didn't turn out too bad. It was either that, or $25 a piece for the ones that Malibu makes. I wish I would have remembered to put that fence segment by the skimmer back in after I vacuumed, before I snapped this photo! | |
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This is a view of the step lighting from below. You can barely make out the switch along the left, bottom post. I have two 3-way light switches installed, one at the bottom, and one at the top with a GFCI outlet near the patio table. Everything is enclosed in outdoor waterproof enclosures and everything is on GFCI breakers. | |
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