Post #353050 by Polynesiac on Fri, Jan 4, 2008 6:46 PM

Hey Jack! Great score!!!! adding more cool tiki decor, I see. looks like the lower right one at the bottom. and also looks really nice infront of that witco.

HOme DEPOT, OSH, any hardware store will work, they have good swag light kits, then buy a socket and wire it up. It's not that hard to do, just follow the directions and double check your work if you're nervous about it. Or, if you have an ikea near you, buy one of their hanging lamp kits for $10 and you don't have to wire squat. and while you're there you can purchase one of their many different colored low wattage compact flourescent bulbs. with a compact flourescent, you'll (almost) never have to change the bulb and you save energy in the process! Ikea is the only place I've found that has colored compact flourescent in extremely low wattage outputs.

unless you want to read by this light (???) I wouldn't go above an output of 25 watts. Even that is too high for my taste. you want a nice glow to add to the ambience (and those other awesome lights you have) so go low low low. 15w, 10w or those nifty ikea ones put out around 7w - which is a perfect glow. (I think i put a 7w ikea compact flourescent in the fish float???) don't do those x-mas light bulbs, they heat up too much.

I could be wrong on this, but I think OA used to rig these for regular sized light bulbs, not candleobra, but that doesnt mean that you couldn't use a candleobra socket.

Have fun with this light! be sure to post any ???'s if ya got 'em!

Polynesiac - putting the "F" back in "ART"

[ Edited by: Polynesiac 2008-01-04 18:48 ]