Thread: Anybody have good ways to hide flood lights?!

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I have like 6 flood lights, what are the best way to disguise the light holders?

i stick them in trees, under the eaves of the roof, behind tombstones. anywhere i have a spot can be used for lights. stuff on the lawn usually gets a spike lamp holder.

I take a piece of foam and make a little light blocker out of it. I score it so it folds into a three section piece which makes the sides adjustable for where I want the light to go. Sometimes I also hide them behind a tombstone or other prop

I used clamp lamps which have silver hoods, I simply hit them up with a 99 cent can of black spray paint.

All the above. Just remember the heat produced when concealing them.

Make thicker tombstones with a hollow back behind them, to tuck the lights into. I glued plastic sheeting over the back of mine to keep rain from falling directly onto them.

Also, sometimes you don't really need flood lamps. None of my lamps out front are any stronger than 15 watts, cuz I want that doom and gloom darkness, not super bright and revealing. It's fun to have the visitors to take their time studying the props.

I use old black plastic flower pots, the kind you get when you buy shrubs. I found a bunch in the trash one night. I can't claim the idea as my own since there's a great cemetery haunt down the road from me and I saw that he used them. You just have to get the right size so that the flood and folder sits inside.

After covering with a black hood (like the flower pot suggested above), I placed some plastic greens around mine. I already had these 2 old matching plastic plants that are full, and they look like a bush from a distance.

I use some stake lights with empty paint cans attached. I paint the paint cans a flat black to help conceal them. Works great. I even have some quart size for my smaller LED Spotlights. I will post some pix tonight.

Someone on here posted (sorry - I don't remember who) about making little boxes with scrap wood. They're just four pieces of 2 x 4 or whatever with one open side and then you can spray paint them black or cover them with moss or whatever to camouflage them. A project I need to do!