Has anyone used the LED rope lights? I was thinking of using them in the barn I’m building.
My barn is super tall on the inside with no loft the center aisle goes up 25ft. Looking for lighting suggestions. I also want to keep warm lighting throughout. Thought about doing rope light around the parameter and maybe some type of coach lights by each stall
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Check this barn out - half way down the page. I’m getting pretty set on soft party lights hanging from the rafters.
https://cotedetexas.blogspot.com/2012/01/tuscan-dream-in-mississippi.html
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My previous boarding barn had party lights in the aisle. They were cute and provided sufficient lighting for dark pm feedings, night check etc. They weren’t sufficient for grooming or stall cleaning though. They had them on a dusk to dawn timer. Interestingly that was enough light to inhibit my horse’s yearly transformation into a wooly mammoth!
I love ALL pix of beautiful barns! However, usually if I go back and review ‘again’ without stars in my eyes I find things to question how it would really work for anyone without a large income and barn workers, etc. How do these ‘party lights’ fare with dust and cobwebs? 
and the two lights on the walls in the foreground of this aisle…seem horse head height scarey to me.
Me too, practical for real horse living and work with them comes first.
Another that scares me is all the unnecessary wood in barns.
Barns used to be out of wood by necessity.
Today we can use concrete/rock and metal and make them look great too, with minimal flammables in there.
All the framing and coverings to framing out of wood makes such a beautiful barn.
Sleeping at night knowing all that can easily go up in flames is not a good trade-off for some.
All barns can and do burn, there is much flammable in there that can’t be helped.
Where we can, maybe we should reconsider what to use when building new or remodeling, so as to avoid as much of that as possible.
Yes, those lights hanging off the walls there in that narrow aisle seem to possibly be a hazard when leading horses thru that space.
Lights there are in a good location to see horses well illuminated from the side, better than overhead ones do.
Lights there should be more flush with the wall, not sticking out in the way, as those are.
We never know what those awesome pictures are in person.
The light in question may be way up there, other precautions taken that we don’t know about.
Maybe the builders are weighing other we are not aware of for what they do.
Horses are accident prone, we can only provide for so much, then it is up to luck helping a bit to keep them safe.
I bet the owners of the beautiful barns in pictures we get to enjoy admiring are happy with them and that is all that matters.
Walking into such beauties would make anyone happy.
My widdle ghetto barn was to be / have a sign saying ‘Tin Lizzy’ 
old converted boat shed! all tin exterior and roof. however: real wood was added of COURSE to line walls…for safety and no kick thru the thin tin. so there is wood inside. my hay barn is across the driveway in a different building. No hay more than 6-8 bales stored in feed area, and none ‘overhead’. anyway. Did what we could! I’m just saying some of the beautiful barn pictures don’t really look like a horseman’s barn to me. But I sure love seeing them!
