Outdoor or Indoor Landscape Lighting Transformer
eonibm
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Comments (8)This ties into the whole site design vs. piece meal design practices. Parts is parts. Pieces parts. (old commercial, I forgot what for - chicken McLugnuts or something). Here again, if you follow the "start with a plant list" mentality you'll wind up with one thing. If you plan uses, then the ideal relationship between those uses, then analyze the site, then adjust that ideal to the realities of the site, you'll be on the way to something that really works. That is a process. The question then becomes "who can think that way?". It is designing by reasoning, not by feeling. That is not to say that you have to be insensitive, but that you need to balance you gut feeling with observation and knowledge. Many of us come from garden designing and building and have added more and more to our repetoire (sp?). Now, do we treat these things like objects to be arranged in a garden or have we gotten to the point where we are planning uses and requirements around other uses? Everyone believes the latter, but as we go around we see enough blindness in this regard that it has to be a fact that it is not so easy. How do we get from arranging outdoor things such as plants, pergolas, pools, ponds, walkways, driveways, spas, flower pots, or whatever, to be good at planning and programming? Is it trial and error? Is it following a technical process? Do we get from following a technical process to be more automatic about it? This is a heavy subject about a light hearted hippie hot tub. Wow, man. How do you (generic you) react when someone says "I want a hot tub right here?". Is it "yes, I can make that work, or do you process the whole idea of where the right place for this should be? I recently did a job for people who designed their house around a Japanese Maple. It is beautiful. It did cause the alignment of the garage to make it difficult to not hit a guest house as you back out. They could have designed the house to fit the site and paid $1,500 to move the tree to work with the house. That kind of thing makes me crazy. But, we see it all of the time, don't we?...See MoreTransformer for outdoor yard lights
Comments (1)Especially if this is not a real landscape transformer with secondary fuses or circuit breakers turn it off now and have someone look at it. It could be dangerous....See MoreGrow Lights vs Outdoor Greenhouse for indoor seeds
Comments (9)Now for my fourth year I am growing hosta seedlings in my basement. I started the first seeds the middle of November and have now 3x3 inch plants. I grow them under 24 hrs fluorescent lights on two shelves in the basement. I use 4ft common fluorescent lights like you can buy at big box stores, suspend them on chains 1 inch above domes of seed trays or plant leaves. I have the seedtrays and lights enclosed with 2 walls and old towels. The heat from fluorescent lights is enough to raise the temperature under plastic domes to close to 80 dgrs, in the area without domes to 71 dgrs in a 60 dgrs basement. This is enough for hostas, so I no longer use heat mats. I also use cardboard with aluminum foil taped on it standing around the hanging lights and plant trays to reflect any light back to the plants. So I have created grow chambers which I only open once a day to check, if I need to replenish water in the trays. Water contains half-strength Miraclegrow tomato fertilizer. A former neighbor was an engineering liason to a lighting manufacturer. He said that the benefits of special growing lights are minimal, so he himself used only basic fluorescent lights in growing seedlings. Here in upstate NY temperatures will be warm enough at the beginning of May to bring my seedlings outside. I will place them in shade and bring them into the garage should temperatures dip below 50 dgrs....See MoreWindow options for greater indoor/outdoor flow
Comments (4)I agree to live in the space for awhile before doing anything. Often after living in a space you find it lives differently than you thought it would. The amount of structural work to do folding doors in that space is huge since Iam pretty sure that piece in the center is structural as mentioned first get an engineer and then grow a really big money tree.The first thing I would be working on is the landscaping while you wait to see how the house functions...See Moretexaskitchentoo
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