CHAPTER 11

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Project 4: The Lighting Waterfall

Light the Way—Ever So Prettily!

In this chapter we look at a project that is not only useful but pretty. If you have a passageway or corridor or even a long, thin room in your home that could do with some nice lighting, then this could be the project for you.

People used to expect very little of the lighting in their homes. One nice bright light in the middle of the room, a simple on/off switch, and the job was done. The fact that our parents and grandparents were happy with this kind of lighting was probably a reflection of the fact that their forefathers had to spend their darkness hours trying to ...

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