Leon wrote:
"Doug Winterburn" wrote in message
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I finally finished the Murphy bed. Did a test sleep last night - good
results :-)



Very nice Doug.

I have a few questions. I have been in the process of building all new
master bed room furniture for our home. I started off with 2 night stands
that I refer to as towers, one on each side of the head of the bed. They
are about 1/8" short of being the height of a door way. I just completed
the under bed storage except for the 18 drawers that will accomplish the
storage and I have finished 90% of the head and foot boards. All pieces are
being used now.

Now to the question. I plan to put a "light bridge" between the two towers
similar to what you have done. Did you research lighting placement or type
of lighting? How does your lighting placement work out for you, is it good
enough to read by? Can you control each light individually, can you dim
each light?

Thanks

Leon



I used the Rockler Murphy Bed light set - about $70 and just followed
the instructions for placement.

http://www.rockler.com/product.cfm?p...31965&pn=31965

To place, I drew a center line dividing the two sides, then drew an "X"
on each side from corners and ends of centerline. Plan called for a
2-7/8" hole for the fixtures, but a 3" hole saw worked fine.

It has a touch dimmer with three light levels + off. The one controller
controls both lights. You may be able to spot the brass knob on top of
the headboard. It's plenty of light to read by in the medium and high
settings. Just a touch on the knob goes from off to low to medium to
high to off again with each touch. I suppose you could see if Rockler
would sell the controller separately if you wanted individual controls.
They did send two control knobs which was kind of strange as there is
only one control wire. Each light has a male and female plug to string
more than one - up to six of the eyeball light fixtures. The cable from
the controller is in a groove from floor to the top of the unit on the
back edge of one vertical, and the control knob wire runs in a groove up
the middle of the headboard.

Mine is a queen size - 60" wide and I think one light on a side would
spill a lot of light to the other side, so I'm not sure it would be
worth the trouble of individual controls unless you find a fixture with
a narrower light spread.

The bookcase lights, which I didn't install as I didn't go with glass
shelving, have a push switch that mounts in the top of each bookcase.

- Doug