Outdoor lighting

In the future, but probably not this year sadly, I’ll be wanting to sit outside on the patio at the rear of the house with the outdoor lights on as the night draws in. I was always a bit concerned that the lighting that I built into the design of the house might be inadequate and having spotted the ‘cheapie’ LED bulbs in Carrefour yesterday, that they also might not be sufficiently bright.

My fears about their brightness were somewhat allayed after trying two of them yesterday in the front of the house so today I went back to Carrefour and bought four more. Having just seen the results a few minutes before typing this, I’m now totally happy that the house’s outdoor lighting will be perfectly adequate. The photos speak for themselves.

I wish I could say the same about the system indoors. I found out more about the living room lighting today that I can now make work on two of the three wall switches that are connected to them. I won’t bore readers with the details but I’m now led to believe that either the system is bedevilled with faulty components or it was a bit too complex for the electrician to install given the number of weird things that are happening. I’m sad to say that I’m inclined towards the latter. 🙁