Dimming and masking another LED light

Crawling back in from the gardening that’s been so needed this last week or so, I finally got around to dimming the tilley style lamp in the second attic/loft space.

This space

Slotted in place – an odd shaped room box as the second half of the box room

I should have added this to the last post. It’s a view of the room box/box room when it’s slotted into the roof framework – roof slopes yet to be added.

The very bright light, but the roof beams worked out quite nicely.

Other items now gone into loft storage include a sadly broken, though rather frightening Mr Punch/Jester in the box and an old photo.

Though a rather bilious yellow, painting the lamp casing has reduced the glare. I have been dabbing the paint on the bulbs in other over-bright lights but haven’t managed to get in to where the bulb is yet in this lamp.
Have also added a little more red to this side of the space with a non-working lamp and used it to mask some of the LED tilley.

Need to get back to what is left of the garden.  It’s all burnt out and am trying to rescue various plants in the hope that when we eventually get back to some rain, they’ll still be usable one way or another.  Have had them in buckets and bowls of water and now am trying to build up the moisture holding capacity of the soil so they can go back in asap.

(Was just hunting out a link to a definition of asap when came across these, I don’t know if you’ve seen them before?  Who knew there was such a variety of possibilities these days?.)

 

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Box room or room box

Lots of bits done but a little hard to describe.

In the belief that it would make more sense if I work from the end result here is one of the more complete bits I’ve been working on.

The first attic space, the one with the wardrobe and wireless, has a bit chopped off because of the slice of house.
This remaining section I’ve sort of dedicated to memorabilia, such as ration books, helmets and the no longer needed cot.

The riddle goes as follows

Now, one could say that this is what used to be described as a box room but, because I’ve still got an itch to be able to get at some of the hard-wired electrics, I’ve also made it as a slot in room box.  I chose this way of doing it rather than creating a removable section in the roof slope to get access.

This attic space lives under the heavily slopped hip on the side of the house, so I started there, building supports for the hip to use

Then other radiating supports were added, including one that should support the hip and the edge of the remaining piece of front slope.
If you stare into the gloom of the attic section on the other side of these beams and look through that doorway you can just about make out the other attic room, which I’ve also started

This view, when the slice of house is removed, shows the shape of the would-be attic space, with electrics running to the space on the far right

where I can still get my hands in to fiddle with a couple of wiring extensions and could add further or replace some.

The slot-in spot

The box has a dangling front edge using ‘L’ shaped moulding so that it can be fairly easily removed from its slot-in space

Parked and awaiting items for storage.

The blank walls, just visible on the right, are the third attic space and you might be able to make out a right-angled decorated section between the room box and the blank space to fill in the gap.

Once I’ve checked again and doubled checked once more, I’m heading towards sticking down the roof slope over it, hoping to get it to match the half of front slope already in place.

Between times, if my never won’t let me glue down that piece of roof yet, I’ve the other attic space, through the doorway, to decorate and dress.  Plenty to nibble on.