Tales From the Box

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When we moved into The Box some 39 months ago, we were beset from would be vandals who decided that our newly purchase abode would be the best place to scribble their poorly spelled thoughts and feelings. So we purchased some rather crude lightning to light up underneath and around the house to stop this; and it worked. No graffiti or vandlism since.

Fastforward 35 months to renovation when the builders had to remove the lighting to continue the renovation. Almost as soon as it was down the odd little thing started happening (bottles in the front garden, graffiti on the neighbouring lightpole). So that made us think seriously about lights and lighting our house. Its something that isn’t always thought about when doing a reno but a considered lighting scheme can really lift the nightime appearance of a house. So we went for some funky lights at the front door (up and down lights 240v) and some regular downlights under the deck upstairs. The upstairs lights really lift the colorbond which we have added on the front facade and spill out to light up the front yeard quite nicely. However its still too dark to play night cricket. Maybe some flooodlights are in order….