Thread: A street light defeated for Halloween

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Many years ago it didn't matter what I did w/ my decorations ...I had way to much light....yep next to my driveway was this bright light for my dark night


After a couple of years of trying to figure out how to put a toggle switch on it I finally just gave up on my quest for darkness.

While reading a book one night I noticed I would be able to see better if that lampshade wasn't on the lamp oh how this inspired me....I needed one of these for my street light!

I went to the craft store and bought some of the foam type art boards....did my best to measure the light and started cutting out images....Once they were cut out and the box was made I glued some colored plastic films on the inside and I had my nemesis defeated

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Yep just another cheap fix....
Peace

That looks awesome! Would love to see it all lit up! I live right next to a street light too however I don't have much lighting in my yard as I'm not electrical inept and I have big trees that block out a good portion of it!

If city owned, will you have legal problems? I have one near my house too, but it would not be as easy to cover up. It comes off the post at a 90 degree angle.

Here are some night shots....

Awesome. How did you get it up there?

That is beautiful! I'm also interested on house you got it up there!

I would say use a bosun's chair (from sailing) but I don't know if I would trust those little nubs sticking out!

The city has yet to complain....as a matter of fact one of my neighbors convinced me to build him one

The install was actually pretty easy....I have a painters extension pole and I just fashioned a hook out of an old metal light support (from a decoration of some sort) and taped it to the end of the pole! (you may notice the purple rope that's attached to the top of the shade in a pic)

That could be the neatest thing I've ever seen

Very cool! I have a very similar light about 25' up and this year I climbed up a ladder and taped a black garbage bag to the sides facing my yard. Worked very well and took it off the very next day. Even so this might be a neat project for next year.