Back when I replaced some unaesthetic light fixtures, I bought four lights identical to the two on the garden shed for the studio building. In December 2024, two more joined the club: Agent Smith put one outside the sliding doors of our bedroom, and one outside the kitchen. (Sadly, I didn’t get a before shot of the kitchen one.)
Here’s what was outside the bedroom before, and what’s there now.
Unlike their siblings on the studio building, these two don’t have smart bulbs–their switches are easy to reach, so there’s no need. The studio light switches are another story: to flip three of the four switches, you have to go inside the building, which became a problem when they kept getting switched off. My fix? A bit of electrical tape that “holds” each switch on and visually reminds people not to touch it. I even taped the fourth switch, outside where we store the trash cans, because its waterproof cover flips down and can turn the switch off.
Sidenote: tape isn’t the only thing on our switches. We have some crazy banks of four and five switches that I’ve had to label, but the labels are fading and I need to look for prettier options. Suggestions welcome!