Chronicling the build out of Tim's new loading room.

[XC700116]

I recently upgraded my loading room light fixture to a 15" square LED unit, it was about $40 at home depot and is amazingly bright. Also being LED won't interfere with electronic scales like the charge-master.

[Irving]

Almost forgot, there is a half second delay after flipping switch and lights coming on with LED that is a tad annoying, but again will be much better than flickering florescents. It's only really an issue when you have a lamp built for multi brightness bulbs because you click past your setting thinking the bulb didn't turn on.

[gnihcraes]

LED - 4 ft shop light style at at walmart for $42. I've picked up several now and love the light output. Hopefully they last a long time.

Sams club has them a bit cheaper I believe.

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Lights-of-...light/46808020

[Spdu4ia]

SAMs or Costco has the led fixture lights really cheap. That's what stu got for his room from me just ask him how bright they are.

[HoneyBadger]

the light quality goes further with LEDs. You ever see people with grow lights that have them right on top of the plant? That's because while the lumen output is high, it degrades wiggly over short distance. The quality light goes "further," imo, than with a regular florescent bulb.

Are you high??

[Tim K]

I'll look into all those ideas. Shawn, does this look right?

http://www.homedepot.com/p/Lithonia-...-205854941-_-N

[Joe_K]

I'm stuck and I need some help. I can't figure out what to do about the lights. I have a bunch of ceramic single bulb fixtures on the ceiling. I can leave them, but they're ugly. It's also under-lit since I removed the even uglier fluorescents. I'm thinking I'll do some track lighting in a couple of places, but what I'm really after are some fixtures I can use to replace the ceramic fixtures that will put out a lot of light. When I first built this room I had 200W bulbs. They were bright, but expensive to replace. I'd like something more modern like LED if possible. Of course, I'm also out of budget, so cost is an issue.

I need a clever idea. Lay one on me.

http://m.homedepot.com/p/Lithonia-Li...0-M6/204648154

Put 3 of these in my house and they are bright without the headache. They also make higher lumen output models. Install was easy.

[Tim K]

Great input, guys. I put up 6 LED fixtures tonight. Wow. I have space for 7 more. I'll probably do one 4' fixture over the loading area, and maybe 4 more of the square LEDs. It's crazy bright now, but I wouldn't mind just a bit more light.

Over the weekend I put up the base and case molding. Caulked it in Sunday.

I also built a new base for my grinder to match the countertops. OCD is a relentless taskmaster. I hung my compressed air hose reel, as well.

My wife bought me a couple stools, which are pretty nice. I might like two more.

Finally, I moved some speakers and a subwoofer in. I built these a couple years ago purely as an exercise in the woodworkers art. They are a very popular design called the Overnight Sensations. I changed up the cabinet design using transverse laminated curved boxes. I also built a subwoofer to go with them, but I can't recall the name. My pair made the designers website, which I thought was pretty cool. The combination sounds terrific, though the room is too live with all hard surfaces.

https://sites.google.com/site/undefi...htsensationmtm

Tasks remaining are painting and rehanging the doors to the kids play room, adding the additional lights, adding another vise to one bench, getting a TV on the wall, and then lining the drawers with rubber matting and filling them up.

Here are some photographs.

[asmo]

Finally, I moved some speakers and a subwoofer in. I built these a couple years ago purely as an exercise in the woodworkers art. They are a very popular design called the Overnight Sensations. I changed up the cabinet design using transverse laminated curved boxes. I also built a subwoofer to go with them, but I can't recall the name. My pair made the designers website, which I thought was pretty cool. The combination sounds terrific, though the room is too live with all hard surfaces.

So, honestly, how do you like the OSMTMs? I have thought off and on about building a couple but I have yet to ever hear them.

[Irving]

Looking great. Love that stool. Need something high like that for my bench.