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I hadn't given a lot of thought to the installation of the roof. In my head it went something like "put the ceiling on, put the extra beams on top, slap the roof on, whallah."   Wallah, HA!  (That's fun to say...whallah ha...whallaha....WHALLAHAHAHA...he he he.)

I was sitting in my chair, staring at the roof, deep in thought, when my husband walked by, looked at me oddly, and asked "what are you so mad at?".  At that point, since trying to formulate a plan wasn't getting me anywhere but angry, I decided to just start already, and figure it out as I go.  I'm almost done now, I need to find a piece of wood to cut down for the fourth side, I'm hoping husband has something in his stash in the garage, because I don't have anything large enough in my stash.

During the moments I was waiting for glue to dry I made and installed a couple of lamps.  They're nothing fancy or complicated, I threw them together quickly from parts on hand.  The wiring isn't finished, I have to solder them to the battery connection wires and figure out where in the back of the closet I can squeeze in the 9V battery and switch.  Retrofitting is a pain. 

The advantage of having a modern room is that the lamps didn't have to look conventional.  The first is nothing more than a rectangular plastic cap glued to a piece of walnut with a hole drilled in it.  The second was made from a pen cap, black drinking straw, and a couple of rubber o-rings.

I'm still thinking about adding an arc lamp over the dining room table, I'm going to put all the stuff in the house to see how it looks first.  The light from the range hood shining through the glass bottles I'm going to put on the counter may be a lovely effect that an overhead light would ruin.