garagelighting
I've recently installed a Lexan 'whiteboard' in my garage which works as well as I'd hoped.
I now want to use some type of lighting to light up the board in a useful/visual appealing way.
Shown below is how the board looks attached to my garage wall:
I'm thinking something like LEDs mounted at the bottom of the sheet may light it up nicely. Any thoughts or suggestions?
I just finished our garage this past summer and here are a few things I did.
I insulated the garage door by cutting pieces of rigid insulation foam to fit into each piece of the garage door. You can glue them on and then seal the edges with expanding foam or caulk.
On the side of garage door I installed weather strips and also on the top/bottom of the door so that it is sealed when the door closes.
If you have any windows I would make sure to seal them (I boxed mine in with wood and then caulked). Also depending how you finished the bottom of the garage walls, I would seal the bottom (my drywall buts up right to the cement floor, so I sealed the space with expanding foam and cut the excess away).
I would say pull the fixture off the beam itself and attach it in between the beams. Then you could get some track lighting that would hang down low enough to provide sufficient light, yet not drop below the beam line. Something like the picture here would work:
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Cool question. I have to dig back into my military (Air Force) experience to answer this one. We often used home made light boards to display equipment status and operational sortie info. We built a wooden frame that held the plexi apx 2 to 3 inches away from the wall with a black background panel. We then mounted 8 ft single florescent tube fixtures directly over the plexi, centered on the edge of the sheet, then covered the tube and fixture with a shadow board. This worked great. It illuminated the writing on the board, but blocked the light from coming into the room, creating the effect of neon light writing. We used colored grease pencils. Red, yellow, green and orange really Pops out!!! I'm sure you can find LED strips that would do the same thing, perhaps a lot more expensive than florescent however. Today I bet you can use a polish, wax or treatment on the plexi that will allow you to use dry erase markers in place of the old fashion grease pencils. Sounds like a fun project, good luck.