Outdoor Living Space: Choosing Your Lighting Wisely

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Choose lighting for safety. You should be able to see your way clearly from the garden entrance to your front door. If there are any steps that are difficult to navigate safely in the dark, good lighting will greatly reduce the risk of accidents. However, do not install intense, isolated lights, such as spotlights, [...]

Lighting the Future

Light-emitting diode (LED) LEDs are essentially tiny light bulbs that fit into an electrical circuit, but they are lit solely by the movement of electrons in a semi-conducting material. LED lighting consumes 50 percent less energy than traditional sources. It is four times more energy efficient than regular light bulbs because more of the energy [...]

The Green Home

Going green with your home can be easy if you look at your house as a system. You save money and improve performance when you take cost-effective measures that reduce building loads, and then install systems and appliances that are the right size to meet the reduced loads. In general, over-sizing worsens performance and increases [...]

Lighting the Home Office: Balancing Comfort, Function & Style

Are you setting up a business at home? You’re going to need a proper home office. Why? Simply because you’re going to be spending a lot of your day there and it’s really important to plan your working environment and design a home office that works for you and with you. You probably had to [...]