Hey this is Mike the Miniature Schnauzer guest blog posting.
Recently I had to help my humans add additional lighting to Tierney’s studio (the former main bedroom, see post A “New” Studio). Since it was a former bedroom, it was not set up for studio lighting, so the humans thought adding a two sets of track lights – one over Tierney’s ironing station; and one next to her design wall would help.
The above photo is the studio during the day and if you look for the faintly drawn green arrows on the ceiling you can see where the track lighting was planned.
So first of course I had to go to the home improvement store and supervise the humans while they picked out tracking lighting and supplies for installation:
What would the humans do without me?!?!
John installed the track lighting. He had to get into the attic (via the main bedroom closet) and drill the hole for the lighting box as well as set up the wiring.
The attic has layers of insulation so John got very creative on how to try and decrease the amount of attic insulation coming onto the floor of Tierney’s studio by attaching an aluminum pan to the “hole saw” attachment he had or his drill:
After a couple hours of drilling, wiring and lighting installation, Tierney’s studio was suddenly filled with light!
I was of course exhausted after all that human supervision and it was time for a nap:
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nice to meet you as this is the first time I have seen you and you are a very beautiful mom. Sch. I was very much in love with a silver and grey one like you. It is obvious from your post that you are very sensitive and intelligent as well as fitted with such a beautiful silver coat. need to do some things now; just wanted to say hi and let you know you have another fan living in Green Valley. Stay well, lovely one. love ❤️ Gregor
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Thanks for stopping by and Mike says woof (thanks)!
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Hi Mike, what a good boy you are 🐶😉
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He agrees and says I need to now reward him, ha!
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It’s great you’re there to help, Mike! The space looks much brighter!
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Thanks so much 🙂
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Mike, what a great supervisor you are! The lighting looks fantastic!
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Thanks so much for stopping by and thanks for your comment 🙂
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You look so focused at the home improvement store, Mike! I hope you thanked John for his creative approach to catching all that icky insulation from floating down to the floor. You might have been tempted to chase, bark at and maybe even taste (bite?) those invaders to your space – not a good thing.
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Mike is very focused, especially while napping. He thanks you for your thoughtful comments and he did stay away from that weird stuff coming from the ceiling 🙂
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Mike, I will pay you in doggy treats if you send your humans my way. I can’t see a thing in my cave-like office and could use some of those bright, shiny things.
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Ha! The bright shiny things can be quite helpful, thanks for the smile 🙂
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What a clever idea! I am so envious of your big new studio space….and that you have such a cute supervisor to make it all work!
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Hi Anne! Great to hear from you, thanks so much 🙂
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Let there be light! Woof, woof, Mike! Oh, and John did a pretty good job too!
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Thanks so much and a woof from Mike too 🙂
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HOpefully you’ll let me know how that track lighting works out. I’ve got a bunch of big LED “shop lights” in my studio.
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It is working very well so far! I am surprised I did not rotary cut off some fingers in my previously non lighting – ha!
Big LED shop lights sound awesome, I did consider that at first but the way the ceiling was set up under the attic the smaller profile worked better.
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Hi Mike! Did you enjoy your ride in the cart? Tierney, how wonderful to have the lighting in your studio. It can make such a difference.
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He loves his ride in the shopping cart – he has a whole routine and his box he sits on inside the cart. Thanks I am so happy with the lighting – didn’t realize how much I needed it!
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Oh Michael! I just hope your humans realize how hard you work at keeping it all together and running smooth. Saint Michael…you deserve more naps😴
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Ha! Yes he is working so hard and napping hard too! 🙂
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Mike, I think you need a vest to wear when you are out at Home Depot that says “Human Supervision Underway.” It looks like Tierney and John did a great job carrying out all your suggestions for this project.
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Mike and I think that’s a brilliant idea!🤣😂🤣😀😀😀
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awesome post Mike
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Mike says thank you for your readership 🙂
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Wow. Tierney must be delighted.
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She is very happy 😃
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So good to hear from you, Mike! My goodness you have been busy supervising your humans 🙂 Well, you had a great idea – those lights look great in the studio, and I’m sure Tierney will be happy with all that great light to help her create 🙂
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Mike says to tell you thanks so much for reading his brilliant musings, ha!
I am very happy with the additional light 🙂
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