Help my husband not hate me this winter.

Post date: 2020-09-18 10:30:40

Now that it's dark again while I'm getting ready for work, I need to light my bedroom enough to get dressed. My husband sleeps later than I do, and I try not to wake him by turning on the bedside lamp. Help me figure out some infrastructure that works better than the flashlight on my phone.

I have two lighting scenes I'd like to improve, if possible.

Scene A: my chest of drawers serves as a nightstand, so it is next to the bed, and in a corner so there is wall space both behind it and perpendicular to it. I'd like enough light to see what I'm pulling out, without illuminating the wall/room. What I'd like, in theory, is some sort of downward lighting. In my head I've envisioned the equivalent of stair tread lighting; something dim and downward pointing that I could put on the wall next to the drawers, or maybe something on top of the drawers that shines down?

Scene B: we have a run of sliding doors for our reach in closet that faces the foot of our bed. We had some motion activated closet lights that were helpful, but they were a) too bright and b) tripped even when the doors were closed. The doors to the closet have enough gaps that motion activated lighting is not ideal. I'd like something that has a different trigger- magnets? A switch? And again, is fairly dim.

Constraints: I'd prefer not to do any wiring for this project, as our household DIY docket is currently full. We also may reconfigure the closets in the future. Open to throwing some money at this, but cost effective is nice. Smart home options are welcome; we're a HomeKit family but have been known to hack together solutions with homebridge when necessary.

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