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Comments (18)John, I am not sure the lights you have bought will give you the intensity in output to make a significant difference. The so called 100 watt equivalent CFL bulbs give you only about 1,600 lumens each. Just for comparison my 400 watt metal halide grow lamp puts out 32,000 lumens. Take a look at these bulbs, they are much brighter: http://www.amazon.com/CowboyStudio-105-Fluorescent-Daylight-Photography/dp/B004L75BGQ/ref=sr_1_17?s=hi&ie=UTF8&qid=1360072582&sr=1-17&keywords=daylight+cfl+bulb http://www.amazon.com/CowboyStudio-105-Fluorescent-Daylight-Photography/dp/B004L75BGQ/ref=sr_1_5?s=hi&ie=UTF8&qid=1360072904&sr=1-5&keywords=daylight+cfl+bulb+studio IMHO, multiple lamps are not ideal. It gives too many sources of glare to the eyes. I think a bounced even all around ambient bright illumination feels the best. I believe humans react to light more than just visually by eyes. That's why blind people can also have SAD problems. Also, a blue incandescent light does not give more blue light than a regular white incandescent light. You may also look into getting a dust/dawn light to wake you up in the morning, and to put you to sleep at night. Looking at the picture of your office, I have a few suggestions: 1. Have your monitors oriented away from the window. Your pupil react to bright window light and contracts, making it a strain to view the text on the monitors. So you compensate by turning the screens to their brightest, but that create another problem to the eyes when it gets dark outside. In addition, for visitors to your office, the displays on the screens can be a distraction. I don�t know in your line of work whether it is important to provide privacy to the materials displayed. For some businesses that is a legal requirement. Do you have glass wall/door to your office? I noticed that you hang your coat on the chair, and not on the coat hook behind the door. 2. I am sure you have tried to set up your monitors most comfortable to your own preference. To me, it seems the monitors should be about 3" lower. I think that would be more ergonomic. Also, if you stack the monitors there will be less neck issues. Most multi-monitor traders have there monitors stacked (see link below). Where you spend the most time, everything contributes to your general well being. Gina, "--A friend of ours had us look at a site where you can figure out the solar azimuth angle over your home - but it was, uh, geekily complicated, LOL.�" It can be complicated to figure out the angle of the sun based on the time of day, the day of the month, the month of the year and your geographic longitude and latitude. Solar panels are coming down in price quickly, in anticipation of using solar energy, I have designed and built an instrument known as Heliodon, which can give the angle of the sun based on many criteria in seconds without doing any figuring. It can also be very useful in building a house to optimize orientation, window locations, and placement of gardens. dcarch My Heliodon Here is a link that might be useful:...See MoreMake a Display Bag or Gift Bag With Sandwich Baggies
Comments (4)Great idea! I like working with wallpaper and have several wallpaper sample books. You can usually get wallpaper sample books for free at places like home improvement stores, or stores that deal with home decorating. My local neighborhood home improvement store occasionally throws all of the their outdated wallpaper sample books into wheelbarrows and they are yours for the taking....See MoreDoes anyone have a collection to display and where?
Comments (22)luvs2click, now *that* is a brilliantly-displayed collection! I love it because it's in the room that the pieces normally would have been in as functional elements, but made into design elements instead, with their functional significance still resonating. Great work, DH :) I'm finding myself collecting NW Studio art pottery and Blenko/studio glass, and a bit of vintage NW fiber art and other craft...the last is the most challenging to display, since it takes up so much room! We're planning to create some dedicated, fishing-line-protected shelves in the living room for the glass, so it can be up where we can see the sculptural lines. I like collections of originally non-decorative items displayed where they would normally have been used. I could see tiny lamps being displayed somehow near their larger cousins, in a few places throughout the house, rather than isolated from function in a display shelf somewhere. I have a vision of maybe two other little lamps put on a little riser near a larger functioning lamp, and repeat that maybe two other places in the house. Rotate the collection. That way, the lamps are in dynamic conversation with their environment and you get a sum that is more than its parts, iykwim. Decorative items? Somehow in significant groupings or in such a way that each one can be appreciated, rather than the whole seen as one big obsessive mass LOL (I'm not excluding myself from this -- a bit afraid of the day my Blenko/glass collection tips this point)....See MoreDesigning built-ins for decorative display
Comments (34)Sidney, Thanks so much for posting that picture as a creative solution. I think we should have the space to do something similar to what your posted, but would need to go down to displaying plates on one side with TV on the other. I certainly like the fireplace with built ins that you chose to do in your home as it achieves what I am trying to do as well - fireplace as the real focus, and TV hidden or down played. Do you find having your TV on a swing out arm convient? In real life do you have the TV swung out most of the time, and only hidden on the occasion? Do you have any issues with glare from windows on your set-up? Thanks again Sidney for your help. Hopefully, at some point I will have a nice fireplace with built-ins like you do. Carol...See Morealways1stepbehind
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