Post #653827 by mike and marie on Sat, Sep 29, 2012 8:37 PM

Then it was time to start work on the Wreck Bar area. First consideration was lighting -- we wanted to achieve the underwater, sunken ship effect of having realistic looking portholes giving off watery light.

There were several small, recessed windows near the ceiling that we knew could eventually become the portholes:

so we installed lights inside of them at the ceiling level,

so the lights are hidden from view

and yet shine down into the room.

Blue fluorescents made the right glow: