My wife is a painter and like many painters has a couple of rails of track lighting running over the ceiling of her studio.
However, the tracks are not optimally configured and as a result she is plagued by a strip of vertical shadow that runs up one wall.
We would like to fix this. Fixing it the "right" way -- getting in a contractor to put in a third rail of lights -- would be expensive, on the order of $2500 (the ceiling is very high and the contractor would have to build access structures).
We are looking for alternatives to explore. One possibility might be some kind of lantern that could be suspended from the ceiling. In the ideal case it would be battery powered and come with rechargeable batteries. My wife would use them for about six hours a day, swapping in charged batteries as needed.
Is this idea ridiculous? What should we be bearing in mind? Anybody have a product to recommend??
However, the tracks are not optimally configured and as a result she is plagued by a strip of vertical shadow that runs up one wall.
We would like to fix this. Fixing it the "right" way -- getting in a contractor to put in a third rail of lights -- would be expensive, on the order of $2500 (the ceiling is very high and the contractor would have to build access structures).
We are looking for alternatives to explore. One possibility might be some kind of lantern that could be suspended from the ceiling. In the ideal case it would be battery powered and come with rechargeable batteries. My wife would use them for about six hours a day, swapping in charged batteries as needed.
Is this idea ridiculous? What should we be bearing in mind? Anybody have a product to recommend??
