The Galaxy Star Ceiling

Rich in detail, and highly textured, the Galaxy with its sculpted constellation graphics will be the focal point of any room where it is installed.

This fantastic new product is available now direct from Starscape. Order on line or by phone. For more information visit the Galaxy link under star ceilings main navigation bar or click here.

 

 

Project 1 Colourwash light bar

In this project we make a colourwash light tube or light bar. This simple-to-make accessory will create subtle moody light wash effects on walls and floors. Perfect for bathrooms, showers and bedrooms - in fact anywhere in the home.
Components laid out on the workbench prior to starting the project. The components you will need.
Starscape Custom Star Kit or fibre on the spool,
PVC Conduit or bar and
rigid tube to act as fibre support.
Buy tube with an inside diameter just sufficient to hold the number of fibres required for each light point. In this early project we used multiple 0.75mm fibres per point, contained within a GRP tube with an inside diameter of 2mm, outside diameter 4mm. However, now we'd recommend using single strands of 2mm fibre.
Coloured glass beads (optional).
Tools for the job - drill, Stanley knife, and hot melt gun or other glue.
The tools you will need.
Drill
Glue (super glue or hot-melt gun)
Knife
Measure the spacing between light points accurately for a good finished effect.
Measure the conduit and mark the positions of the light points. Cut the required number of lengths of tube. In this demonstration we opted for six light points, each with 25 optical fibres, but now we'd be more inclined to recommend a larger number of light points, each consisting of a single 2mm fibre.
Holes are drilled through the conduit. Take care here,since this is the visible surface of the light tube.
The GRP tubing is cut to length.
Drill the holes to accept the short lengths of tube. The holes should be sized to fit the outside diameter of the tube.
The short sections of GRP tube are fitted to the conduit to match up to the holes drilled earlier.
Press the tubes into the holes in the conduit ..
Use an appropriate glue to fix the short tube sections in place.
..and fix with an appropriate glue.
Hot melt glue is good if you're in a hurry!
Once the tube sections are secured in place the fibre can be fed into the tubes.
Divide the fibre optic harness into the required number of smaller bundles and fit these into the tubes. Trim the fibres to length.
Fit the back onto the conduit and turn on the lamp!
The fibre optic harness comes out of the end of the conduit, and then passes through a hole in a wall to the lightsource. Alternatively, the fibre could be bent to come out of the back of the conduit, with the end sealed with a cap for a neat finish.
The white phase of the colour wheel provides the greatest degree of illumination ....
..but red may be more romantic ...

Three images of our light bar installed in a bathroom.
... and green may well work with an avocado suite!
..and in a bedroom with the bar mounted to the back of the headboard with double sided tape.
Here, the colour wash bar is out of sight behind the headboard, so the level of finish is less critical.
The number of bright spots corresponds to the holes in the bar.
If you complete a successful project why not send us some photographs. Your ideas and innovations are welcome.

 

 

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