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I have a "flex" room in the house which is basically a dining room but they don't want to call it that apparently. It's the first room you see

Posted by sycor Oct 17 '23, 09:27

when you walk in the front door. There is a pendant light near door in what would be an entryway if there was a divider. There is no overhead lighting in the "flex" room and it bothers me. We will likely use the room for a larger dining table for holiday times so I have to figure out how to light the room enough to enjoy a meal.

Maybe I need to borrow some tools and make some crown molding coving lighting around the room. I dislike the idea of having lamps all around the room but that's another idea. I also toyed with the idea of string lighting around the room but that seems more an outdoor thing but I think it could work.

Just thinking out loud really.

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put a pool table in there -- nm - decline Oct 17, 09:41 12
- That's what our next door neighbor did, in what was the "living room ". Our living room is now the dining room. The dining room is now the library. -- nm - zunk takes things literally Oct 17, 09:51 3
  - I bet this really makes playing Clue exceptionally difficult. -- nm - Qale Oct 17, 10:06 2
    - Clue: Cold Case Edition -- nm - Beryllium Oct 17, 10:18
    - oh snap! tremendous joke -- nm - rollo Oct 17, 10:13
- Not sure the room is quite big enough. - sycor Oct 17, 09:44 7
  - A friend of mine has a scotch room. He has a small room with a bookcase that showcases his bottles of scotch (some of them are backlit) with a chair - Roger More Oct 17, 09:59 2
    - I could do this with my bourbon collection and it's still on the list. It would make needing more lighting less of an issue. -- nm - sycor Oct 17, 10:08
    - *adds to his wishlist* -- nm - znufrii, vice president Oct 17, 10:04
  - Library with book shelves along all the walls? -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Oct 17, 09:53 2
    - FUNKO room! -- nm - Flavor-izm Oct 17, 09:56 1
      - that just happens gradually -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Oct 17, 10:18
  - just cut holes in the walls for the pool cues -- nm - decline Oct 17, 09:49
Once it might have been called a Sitting Room. -- nm - Spawn Oct 17, 09:35 1
- Yeah probably. We considered just getting a pool table or setting up a bar and a game table. But honestly we don't entertain that much. - sycor Oct 17, 09:42
What would people in scifi do? Or when jules verne describes an electroluminescent light that comes from everywhere, and nowhere, - Beryllium Oct 17, 09:33 3
- I think that's the crown molding and cove lighting idea with today's technology. I can use some RGB LEDs so I can set the room to Red Alert! -- nm - sycor Oct 17, 09:35 2
  - I have a siri shortcut for that, but because i don't believe in IoT, it only turns the phone red. - Beryllium Oct 17, 09:36 1
    - You should look into Home Assistant and build pretty much everything locally. They have even recently released updates for local voice control - sycor Oct 17, 09:40

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