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What’s New With Kitchen Lighting Design?

What's New With Kitchen Lighting Design? Kitchen lighting ideas are seemingly endless, but this is definitely where you get to make your own design statements, so offering prescriptive advice would be somewhat pointless and counterproductive. However, while all these different types of ...

Introducing LED Kitchen Lighting

LED Kitchen Lighting Clearly, most kitchens map quite well to the concepts of functional (task) and aesthetic (decorative and accent) areas and so assigning the right types of kitchen lights to the right spaces shouldn't be terribly complicated. Where a lot of kitchen lighting ideas tend to fall apart though is through failing to either understand or implement decent ambient lighting. Too much and everything ...

Contemporary Kitchen Lighting Ideas

Contemporary Kitchen Lighting Ideas The main lighting groups for kitchens draw on much the same design principles found in regular home lighting ideas: task, ambient and mood lighting. Incidentally "mood lighting" is a term that covers aspects of what are otherwise known as feature, decorative and/or accent lighting. Also, there are no hard and fast ...

Replacing Halogen Lamps With LED Spotlights

Replacing 12v Halogen Lamps 3) or GU24, dichroic or non-dichroic) will save you big money down the line as energy prices just keep on climbing. Not only that, home LED lighting opens up a new world of lighting ideas that were until recently simply not possible. You don't have to make huge sacrifices to save on household energy bills or to reduce your carbon footprint. Energy saving LED ...

LED Garden Lighting Basics

LED Garden Lighting Basics You can light something from above (downlight), below (uplight), behind (backlight) and from in front. The latter has a number of further variants since you can obtain quite different effects depending on whether the light is used to "wash" over the subject, place it in relief or casting shadows, or to catch it at an angle. So how to choose from so many lighting ideas? Well, many features in a garden themselves suggest the best approach, simply by their very nature. If you have, say, a reasonably large tree that has an interesting structure then a powerful uplight will really bring this to life at night. You might, according to the size of the tree, need 100 ...