My shop!!

[Tamper84]

Well I have purchased my first house and it has this pole barn next to it. A previous owner put a loft on one side and left the other open with a garage door. Anyway here is a picture

[/IMG] The part that has the sliding door and the loft is my man cave. Its 21'x26'. The bad part is it has 7' ceilings in it. I have to finish out the electrical and insulated and finish it all. I was going to raise the ceilings, but I dont work on cars, besides our daily drivers. I am more of a metal worker. I would show pictures of the inside, but its a complete disaster from when we moved lol.

But I do have a question, since I have 7' ceilings, I would like to flush mount lights. What would you guys recommend for flush mountable? I have researched and I am thinking T8s. I have seen that lowes has them, but Im not sure if there is anything better out there or not? Any input on that would be awesome!!

Thanks,
Chris

 

[NUTTSGT]

Welcome to GJ. We need more pics of the new shop. You have to have a starting point somewhere.

I have some T8 strip lights in my garage, a 4 bulb fixture . . . 8' long, two bulbs end to end.

 

[Toolman12]

Hi Tamper84 welcome to Garage Journal and congrats on your new home looks like you will have a great shop/garage/cave when you are done and the T8 strip lights are great.

 

[John in OH]

Welcome to GJ. We need more pics of the new shop. You have to have a starting point somewhere.

I have some T8 strip lights in my garage, a 4 bulb fixture . . . 8' long, two bulbs end to end.

I installed the same 4 bulb, 8 ft. T8 strip fixtures (8' long, two bulbs end to end) in my new shop and love them. The strip fixtures are flush mounted to the ceiling and, although I can't get you an actual measurement at this time, I doubt that they extend further down from the ceiling than 4 in. See Posting #91 of my build thread,
http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=98038