Post #723468 by creativenative on Wed, Jul 23, 2014 1:47 AM

Giant bump because I didn't know where else to put this without creating a new thread, but here is my lighting experiment. Not a light fixture but something anyone could do with lighting, on the cheap, with what I think are great results. See experiment photo below.

Lately I've been partial to cobalt blue glass, so I have start to accumulate them at little or no cost, from neighbors 5 cent garage sales to park trash bins. After cleaning the bottles up and putting them in front of my window, I noticed the sun light through them was gorgeous. So thought of duplicating that at night. After a couple of trials, with under-the-counter LED and mini fluorescents, I came up with two linked mini fluorescents, low behind the bottles. Changing the warm bulbs with cool bluer ones. A battery powered LED tube bar in behind the small jars of the top small shelf. Of course green, red or amber glass bottles will have similar effects. An indirect bonus effect from this same experiment was that my wood tiki and warm painted wall which are behind the blue glass bottles, retains the warmer light source while anything in front of the blue bottles reflex's the cool blue light of the bottles. The mixed temperature lighting turns out to be pretty cool. One can do their own thing with placement of their own glass bottles, lights and objects to be lit, for all kinds of results. Have fun with it.

[ Edited by: creativenative 2014-07-23 01:51 ]