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Around The House
This Old House Magazine
|Summer 2023
What's happening in the world of This Old House
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IT'S (ALMOST) A WRAP!
Details, details
In the final, weeks of TOH's Ipswich project, we caught up with the team as they put the finishing touches on the 1720 house, rebuilt ell, and garage addition full-court-press
Lighting that says, "Look up!"
HOW TO HIGHLIGHT the beauty of a vaulted ceiling lined with 300-year-old wood-without detracting from it? That challenge kept Heath Eastman busy for days. Recessed cans definitely wouldn't do. So after some experimentation, TOH's master electrician hit on the elegant solution here: LED strips along the tops of the exposed timber-frame beams to illuminate the ceiling and add ambient light-and three carefully placed pendants over the island to provide task lighting for the kitchen below. "With the ceiling so steep, it took time, planning, and a little luck-not to mention lasers-to pinpoint exactly where to install the junction boxes," says Heath. The results: just brilliant.
This story is from the Summer 2023 edition of This Old House Magazine.
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