Apartment Mood Lighting

11Apr07
by Greg

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Modern Self has a comprehensive article on how to properly light the dim corners in any bachelor pad. Eric, the article author, uses his experience as a set lighting technician to guide the modern man into simultaneously making his apartment and himself look better.

The article starts with an accurate assumption of most men’s first apartment.

So, you finally made it out of college, got yourself a job and an apartment in your favorite urban setting. You’ve scraped together all your cash and pimped out your new pad complete with furniture, half-ass painted walls, and a more than complete bar set. So why are you still using that one lamp you stole from your dorm room, and calling your laptop screen “mood lighting?”

The article continues offering more knowledge than you can probably consume in one sitting.  It covers a broad range of topics including:

  • Basic Types of Lighting
  • The Different Functions of your Bachelor Pad
  • Light Type and Temperature
  • Light Fixtures as Art
  • Do-It-Yourself Electrician
  • Lamp Buying Guide
  • Lighting Examples

Check out the full article at Modern Self (which btw guys, great site) and thank Goat for the wonderful suggestion.  Actually, send Goat the bill.  I now have an almost uncontrollable urge to spend my whole pay check on cosmetic gels, artistic lamps, and dimmer switches.


7 Responses to “Apartment Mood Lighting”  

  1. 1 cash

    Damn good advice.. I need to make a list.

  2. 2 cash

    Gawd, that modern self site is a gold mine.

    This thing reminds me of that wall in the new wing of the Denver Art Museum with the cool blue digital numbers.

  3. 3 goat

    oh no, i’m not taking the fall on the bill this time. fool me once shame on you. fool me 788 times and dammit maybe i’ll have learned by now.

  4. 4 Greg

    Cash,

    Check out the comment on that page…

    “This reminds me of an exhibit at the Dallas Museum of Art. There were a bunch of digital numbers that were tiles on the floor and they kept on flashing random red numbers.”

    Haha!

    Goat,

    Ok, ok. How about just a blue light or a pack of cosmetic gels?

  5. 5 goat

    how about i just buy you a glass of beer if you’re in the area and you can look through that for coloured lighting?

  6. 6 Greg

    Yes!

  7. 7 cash

    I’ll drink to that.

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