OK, Bingo… found these for slightly less. They come in LED and regular incandescent (lower price) in white. Reviews say the LED light is a strange color and incandescent provides better light. But I’ll probably get in trouble for installing incandescent with California building requirements.
ooops , here’s the link
looks good- what color are you buying?
Those are very nice, and budget friendly. I think having those along the stairway is fabulous!
I need to purchase the white because it will match the switches and outlets in the house. But, I am tempted with the brushed nickel 
The louvered ones will project the light down, where the flat panel ones will provide more light on the space. It’s not a movie theater-you’re environment, so I wouldn’t think you’d want louvered ones.
Go for the brushed nickel!!!
The brushed nickel will make the fixture more visually appealing, IMHO. I’d think white would be too blah.
The brushed nickel would look fine, even though you have white outlets and switches.
The point isn’t anything aesthetic; it’s purely functional. Do you want anyone to even notice them as they’re going down the stairs? I’d vote for the white. I think. This is not a make-or-break decision.
Oh lordy!!! Concrete guy came back with $9 grand for basic concrete 2 inch overlay down on parking patio and two front walkways. Yikes!!
Need to get some more estimates quick. Landscape designer told me about $8 sq ft. My calculations come out to about $2,500. Plan B may be coming quick, whatever Plan B is
I hope you can work it our quickly! Rooting for you!
Oh, brother. I haven’t paid close attention to the finer details, but might it be cheaper to lay some wood-look decking on that lower parking once inspection is completed? I’m guessing it’s a dumb idea, but figured I’d throw it out there since I can hide behind the anonymity of the web!
How level is the parking patio? What size is it?
That estimate makes no sense at all.
A parking patio that can park 2 cars will be at least 400 sf and the walkways could be around 100 sf total, so even at $8 per sf, the total will be $4000, certainly not $9000 but should be some where between 4 and 9, because $8/sf is probably too low.
500 sq ft at 2 inches thick is only 3 yards of concrete. With delivery that should be less than $500. $8500 to spread it out and put a pattern on it is ridiculous.
I think parking patio should be at least 4 inches thick, not 2 inches.
This is how to calculate bags of concrete needed. at 280, 80 lb bags, the material costs $2000+, not sure how much from the concrete truck.
The parking patio is 16’ by 13’ and front walkway is about 8’ long by 4’ wide with 3 steps. The sloped walkway from driveway is probably going to have to go. Also included saw cutting 13’ wide to put in long drain to catch all water running down steep driveway when it rains.
Bid included about 70’ of short little tiered planter walls. Those are probably going to have to go, even though it was a cool idea. Unless I can find someone to use up the red brick and build brick walls that I will paint
And there is a stupid sewer clean out right where I want front walkway that we need to camouflage
cb, did the fellow provide details about why his estimate is so high?