Dream studio details...

[Patricia Joyce]

Hi Beth,
Good luck setting up your studio. I am just getting mine together and yesterday installed lumichrome lighting over my north windows - just started with two bulbs instead of Marvin's five. I also have a lumichrome over my easel. So last night I was happy as can be working away in my studio, listening to my tunes and working on a commission (Heaven on Earth!!) when everything went black.

I blew a fuse. Seems that while I got the windows I wanted, two north facing, the stationary sink, hot and cold water, vaulted ceiling for my "future" portfolio, etc., I did not get the proper wiring. I was fuming when I called the builder and left a less than pleasant message on his VM.

[Marvin Mattelson]

Patty, sorry to hear about your blackout.

The Lumichrome lamps are only forty watts each, so having three on is using only 120 watts worth of power. If your wiring can't tolerate that little, your contractor really screwed up so you were more than justified to blow your fuse.

[Patricia Joyce]

I know. and from what little I know, looking at the electrical panel, they went as cheap as they could. But the contractor is meeting Jack at the house tomorrow, hopefully to fix the problem. the time it has taken to get the studio set up has been so frustrating. It seems, anymore than a day or two and I feel all disconnected if I am not drawing or painting - geesh can't these non-artists get that about us???!!