Adding a chandelier may be just what you need to bring sophistication, style or just plain fun to any room in your home.
Your dining room may simply not feel complete without a chandelier over the table.
If you’ve decided that a chandelier is the perfect accent to your dining room, kitchen, or any other room in [...]
Ceiling lights are probably the most commonly used light fixtures in the home.
The reasons for this are clear: Ceiling lights come in a wide variety of styles to suit any room; they light a wide area, and they don’t take up valuable floor space.
Whether you are planning a new home or remodeling your existing home, [...]
With today’s kitchen lighting options, it can be a daunting task to design your kitchen lighting system.
Gone are the days of the seventies and eighties, when standard kitchen lighting was nothing but a recessed space in the ceiling with several fluorescent fixtures covered by cheap translucent plastic panels!
Unfortunately, kitchen lighting is still one of the [...]
Tiffany lamps were the creation of Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848 to 1933), a brilliant American designer, best known for his work in stained glass.
Tiffany is most associated with the Aesthetic and Art Nouveau movements, and was affiliated with the Associated Artists, a collaborative group of designers that included Samuel Colman, Candace Wheeler, Lockwood de Forest [...]
Outdoor lighting has really come along in the last ten years.
It used to be that you had very few choices to brighten your home exterior.
Now, you have myriad outdoor lighting options from which to choose.
Outdoor lighting for porches patios and decks has become one component in the overall lighting design of a home today.
Lighting and [...]
The garden is one place in your home where you can express your creativity.
You can do this by improving and working on your garden’s landscape. The addition of lighting completes your landscaping, providing illumination for spending evenings outdoors and enhancing your property’s security.
The right flowering and ornamental plants for your garden should be used. You [...]
Decorating is a very personal endeavor and creating your own unique style is hard work, but adding accents is like putting icing on the cake. And accent lighting can be one of the most visual elements in any home decor.
Wall sconces are an elegant and stylish accent lighting element. You can choose electric sconces if [...]
Track lighting is a simple way to add lighting to an entire room or provide accent lighting to highlight special features such as artwork.
This type of lighting is installed on a mounting track fixed to your ceiling.
The track can be custom configured to fit into the area desired and involves little or no remodeling since [...]
We’re all familiar with fluorescent lighting in one form or another.
Almost all of us have worked in offices where the glow of fluorescent lights hummed overhead! In recent years, however, compact fluorescent bulbs that can be used interchangeably in sockets originally designed for incandescent light bulbs has brought the use of functional and decorative fluorescent [...]
Many of us do not consider the importance of good bathroom lighting. The bath is usually one of the smallest rooms in a home and yet it is used by every family member numerous times a day. This area needs proper lighting for applying makeup, shaving, styling hair and daily hygiene tasks.
There are three types [...]
