It’s a mini spotlight that operates off a remote (or you can just turn it on with the click of a button) and 3 AA batteries.

A couple of quick tips for timers like these. You want to see how many prongs your outlets accommodate. We live in an older home, so some of our outlets have two prongs and some of the outlets have three prongs.

Each candle operates on 2 AAA batteries. You can use the remote or simply switch them off and on at the end of the candle.

So I ordered them and shared them with all of you and the emails I got about the lightbulbs were amazing. Here’s just one that I got from a sweet reader named Lisa:

Until I found these dusk-to-dawn lightbulbs. They are one of my favorite finds EVER and the perfect lighting hack. You just screw them into the lights, turn the lights on and they automatically come on when it gets dark in the evening and turn off in the morning when it gets light. I’ve had this set for over a year and a half and they’ve never let me down yet. One quick tip—I like the warm white lightbulb instead of daylight. It’s just a prettier light.

Hi there! Love this post. Just wondering about the taper candles. I have several but so many have a light that is almost orangey. I like a natural light and wondered what the actual color of the light itself is.

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With the Z axis, this was easy, since I could simply subtract the z height of point a from the z height of point b, which would give me that positive/negative value.

I’d forget to turn them on at night and I’d come home to a dark porch or I’d forget to turn them off in the morning and they’d stay on all day and waste electricity. I tried a couple of solutions—motion lights, or lights with dusk-to-dawn settings, but none of them worked that well.

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Love the ideas. Found about the dusk to dawn light bulbs years ago. Electrician wanted to put it light which cost $150.00 + his fee. I got a set of 4 for $20! Worked perfect! Thanks for sharing the other ideas🌻

I appreciate the idea, but this doesn’t really solve what I’m trying to accomplish. For what I am doing, line AB will already be moving in the same direction as/ will be parallel with the vector I am referencing. What I need is a way to make the measured distance between AB a positive or negative value, depending on where B is relative to A. Hopefully this sketch makes it a little more clear what I mean. You can see that the measured distance between the two points should be either a positive or negative value, depending on which one is “up” relative to the vector. With the Z axis, this was easy, since I could simply subtract the z height of point a from the z height of point b, which would give me that positive/negative value. 20230529_1649081920×1080 36 KB

I have mentioned these so many times before, but I’m going to keep sharing because they have changed my life. We have two lights on either side of the front door.

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We have those candle bulbs on the back porch. I bought both sets of light bulbs over a year ago and never had to replace them!

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Only a thought-Having a light on all night will reduce the number of lighting bugs. They can't find each other if there is too much light. I love reading your articles.

They are battery-operated and have a remote and you can set a timer with them and you can also adjust the flame to have it flicker more or less.

As for me and my house? We are not really about anything that shines light from above. In my house, overhead lights cast weird shadows and make my skin (and my rooms) look completely uncute.

They are the prettiest lighting hack. They have a swirled pattern with real wax (that looks and feels so real) and the flame flickers and looks so real.

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Putting lamps on timers is one of the easiest ways to create a warm and welcoming space whenever you enter a room in the morning.

The light is pretty bright for a lamp of this size and the finish looks so high-end and it’s on sale right now for 40% off.

The challenge with this desk is that if you want to add a lamp to the top, there are cords everywhere that have to wrap around the desk to plug in to the outlet in the back. And then when you want to sit at the desk you have to remember that there are cords there.

The candles come in different colors, but the living room is blue and white so I ordered them in white. I love that the white is a true pretty white (I’ve ordered others that were a little creamier and I like the bright white for the holidays).

(total aside: when you are in the room the lighting difference is even more pronounced—sometimes it’s hard to capture the difference in a photograph.)

For Context, my ultimate goal is to create a perfect sound-reflecting surface projecting from any relatively flat surface I choose, though I am currently limited to using surfaces built in the x-y-z planes, like in this examples here. If I were trying to generate a reflecting ceiling surface, for example, I take the distance between panels in the z direction and move them towards each other to close the distance, which is my process of creating a smooth reflecting surface. To get that Z-distance, I can use the deconstruct points component to take two points’ given z heights and subtract them from each other. The reason why it is important to measure against the z-axis in this case and not simply use the distance component is because it gives me up/down directionality of the distance, whereas the distance component only gives the absolute value of the distance. That directionality with the positives/negatives is important since some panels need to be adjusted either upwards or downwards. 11182×636 131 KB 21098×598 339 KB So now that brings me to needing to measure distance like this relative to the direction of any provided vector. If we subtract given points a and b, for example, I need the resulting distance to be either positive or negative, depending on whether point b was in front of or behind point a relative to the directionality of my provided vector. This would allow me to generate the type of surface I am looking for, using plane surfaces of any orientation I choose. The script for my workup of sound reflections is quite large and messy, but I’m providing here a sample of the type of data I am trying to measure/organize. it has a provided vector and a set of curves which I would need to measure the distance of according to their directionality. 32721×1444 259 KB I could probably logic this out and come up with a complex working solution that will bog down the speed at which my script works, but I was first wanting to see if anyone had any ideas on how to do this in a fairly straightforward way that I’m missing. As a note, I would appreciate assistance with doing this with grasshopper components, given that I am not familiar with Python coding. If you need any other information, please let me know. sample.gh (15.3 KB)

I wish someone would come out with candle bulbs on timers. I have looked and nothing is out yet. We have them in our outdoor lights. They don't make light sensor bulbs yet either. Maybe someday when I'm not thinking about they will appear

I plan to try the color change bulbs! Thank you! I use a LENMAR 5 in 1 Battery Charger for all rechargeable batteries including D cells though it's not a quick charger and takes over night to charge. Walmart online sells it. The OVER LITE by Sensor Brite stick on Motion Activated light uses 3 AA's and is quite bright.

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Ah, thats perfect. I can integrate it into my system very easily as well. Thanks, I wouldn’t have thought that there was such a component.

Every year I discover more. Like yesterday—I solved a problem with lighting in the living room. See that fiddle leaf fig in the corner? It’s all lit up now without any plugs.

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Love all of these ideas!! Especially the taper candles - very pretty. Also, congratulations on the magazine cover!! Beautiful hutch display!

By the way, if the reference vector is unitized, this is exactly the dot product of AB with the reference vector, which eliminates all the geometric construction.

I love the tree spotlight. I have used most of your ideas. Except my spare bedroom motion closet lights are USB rechargeable. No wasted batteries. They hook to a magnet for easy removal to recharge. Thanks for the ideas.

I have also purchased motion detector lights for my lamps inside the house. They light the path as I walk through at night. They also light up when the pets walk through at night, making it appear that someone is home at night, even when your not at home.

I especially like the rechargeable light option. Our living room is oddly shaped and that would be helpful for adding additional lighting. I've also seen people add puck lights to sconces to avoid having to hire an electrician, and I think that's a great idea.

Take point A, move in direction of vector B with a factor. Now you have a third point C and you can drow a second line AC. Find the nearest point “D” on of B on the segment AC. Distance between A and D is the lenght you want.