Do-it-yourself Home Lighting Projects

How To Install a Dimmer Switch
This web page gives detailed instructions and offers pictures and diagrams for a step by step tutorial on installing a dimmer switch for your light fixture. This is perfect for the do-it-yourself home owner. It provides directions in nine steps, as well as a list of tools and materials needed.

Building a Light Saber
A website for Star Wars fans with an interest in bulding light sabers. This site contains instructions, drawings, photos, and parts lists for building your own light saber prop. It is not a working light saber, but more of a fun idea. The design developed contains, for the most part, parts that are very easy to find and quite inexpensive. Parts include a chrome tube or pipe, an extra canister vacuum cleaner attachment tube, a PVC coupler, high-density foam weather stripping, and latex paint.

Lighting Articles and Tips
The electrical and lighting section of This Old House features solutions to wiring problems, installing and using dimmers, suppressing light surges, burnout busters, installing recessed lighting, ambient lighting, task lighting, accent lighting, adding cables, lighting for aging adults and choosing light bulbs. An online video gallery features lighting installation demonstrations.