As we move throughout our Asheville home we keep finding or at least I do, things, rooms and furniture, and lights which we should change. I spent most of my Saturday very cleverly figuring how to and executing an excellent lighting design.
All of this for a mudroom. The house is odd in a way, in that there are some rooms which are critical because the room(s) are very much part of the day. Mudroom implies a space with some cuddies for shoes and a place to hang coats and sports gear. Our particular “mudroom” is attached to the garage but is also attached to a guest room, and then a hallway leading to our tv room and Tina’s office.
Having nothing really better to do and all, is me. The retired guy. The design began with built in cabinets and some pictures on the wall bracketing the room and adding personality to the space.
The construction element of the space was having cabinets made and Justin did a wonderful job. I will be hiring him again. There was a entry door to a closet in that room which I closed in and relocated the door to the hallway side, out of sight.
The wall of pictures has now become “the gallery” because, if we do this right, it’s going to be beautiful. We have decided to choose the pictures from special, unique, exhilarating, and humbling moments and experiences.
There was this crappy light that just needed to be replaced. As an aside, I had to open up the hallway ceiling and from that opportunity, I was able to see all across the structural part of the mudroom ceiling and realized it would not be to terribly difficult to put in recessed lights. It would fix a lighting mess.
Our designer came up with a solid and well thought out lighting design after meeting with a local electric supply company about some logistics. The design would include several strategically placed recessed lights and a track of these micro led track heads to illuminate the framed photos. We can control angle, eliminate shadows, and adjust color temperature which will allow these moments of our lives to be a crazy cool finish to a mudroom.