I completed a project recently where I made a track light for my living room. I had Hue Bloom lights on the fireplace mantle and every time my wife would swap out the decorations and pictures we would talk about how nice it would be to have a track light on the ceiling instead of the Bloom lights on the mantle.
But I didn't want to give up the color and control the Hue Blooms gave us. I shopped for track lights and didn't find any that would take a full-sized Hue light bulb, so I decided to make one myself.
I hade never done anything like this! I've made a couple of things with wood, but they usually turned out looking like an amateur made them. I didn't want that for my living room so I tried some new things.
I got a 4-foot board and some can lights, cut a groove down the middle of the board for the wires, and then spray-painted the board black. I got an electric box and spray-painted it black, too, and then mounted it on the end of the board to hold the plugs going into an extension cord.
Everything came together ove the course of a month. I thought it looked pretty good, so I showed my wife and we agreed that we could hang this in the living room.
As usual my brain kicked into overdrive trying to convince me that I was messing up. The chant in my head went on and on about how the ceiling was going to fall out, about how the lights would burn up, and how this was all going to fail. When I got the track light up against the ceiling and was ready to put the screws in to hold it up there my pestering inner voice was at full volume trying to stop me.
But I didn't stop. I hung the track light, then ran the extension cord the way I wanted to run it. Everything turned out like I envisioned, and nothing caved in at this point.
I'm glad I've learned to press through the noise in my head and get things done.
