Outdoor Living Space: Choosing Your Lighting Wisely

Step 1
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, [...]

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 [...]

Colored Walls and Lighting for your Apartment

If you don’t already know this season’s color is turquoise, last season yellow and before that it was green. Why am I telling you this? Obviously color is in for decorating your apartment. When you live in an apartment many people do not put any color on the walls, do not hang any pictures and [...]

The Kitchen Overhaul: Lighting Choices

Why You Need a Kitchen Overhaul?
Getting a tax refund soon? Maybe its time to tackle that kitchen renovation you have been waiting to do. In most homes the kitchen is where your family gathers when they come home; eating, cooking, entertaining, doing homework, the home office and any else you can imagine. Being that it [...]

Makeover the Living Room: Floor Lamps

It is the start of the new decade and it is time to update your living room to welcome the decade in style. Here are some really sleek designs for your living room and some floor lamps to match each design style. Let us know what your favorites are at eco-lights.com .
Living Room #1 Modern [...]

Small Apartment Decorating: Creating Different Moods

With the recent major hits in our global economy many people have had to downsize their homes to apartments. Moving to a smaller space often requires some major adjustments to your decorating. So how do you keep the high style you have become accustomed to in your new small space?
First you must realize that different [...]

Craftsman Eco-Lighting for Home

The American Craftsman Style, or the American Arts and Crafts Movement, is an American domestic architectural, interior design, and decorative arts style popular from the last years of the 19th century through the early years of the 20th century. As a design movement, its popularity remained strong until the 1930s and continues to experience numerous [...]

Lighting Choices for Nurseries

Planning and preparing for a new baby is exciting, scary and a lot of work! One of the many fun tasks is decorating your nursery. The trend these days is to have a one-of-a-kind designs and look to your baby’s room. Many soon-to-be parents spend lots of time picking out the prefect wall color, bedding [...]

5 easy tips on cleaning your chandelier

You might think that cleaning a chandelier is a tedious affair but if you take care of certain things then you can actually enjoy the process. Once your chandelier is clean the lighting in your room will improve by leaps and bounds. While cleaning any light fixtures that are attached to the ceiling, make sure [...]

How to Choose the Best Lighting When You Remodel Your Home

Most people don’t pay enough attention to lighting when they’re designing their home. Usually, it’s all about the paint or wallpaper, the furniture or curtains. It’s important to realize that all of these features can look inviting or distasteful depending on what light they’re placed in.

Here are a few pointers to help you [...]