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Lighting: Brighten Up Your Small Oasis By Installing Bathroom Lights

November 29th, 2010

Our bathroom may be the smallest room in our home but we spend quite a bit of time in here. We use our bathroom in everyday of our life and it is something to take into consideration. Your bathroom lights are one of the main priorities in building your place of comfort so loosen up and get a hold of amenities that suites your taste.

Bare bulbs in pleated shades and pressed glass bulkhead lights are the thing of the past. Down bathroom lights can be used in all locations (including the shower), Semi-flush and flush fittings can illuminate the ceiling as well as the walls and floor and you can illuminate bathroom mirrors and cabinets with lights above, beside or even behind the glass and have shaving mirrors that are backlit and fog free.

Think about having more than one light in your bathroom lighting. Brighten up your bathroom a bit. A single fitting in the centre of the room will give good illumination to the centre of the room but not much else. The bathroom mirror deserves special attention and a wall light on either side will provide good illumination of the face. If you put in too much light into a room you can always lower the wattage of the lamps used.

Dimming your bathroom lights is now an option with a pull-cord dimmer. This will let your bathroom be bright and invigorating in the morning and soft and subdued in the evening. A ceiling fixture is a good idea for general lighting and many modern styles are available allowing your bathroom decor to be as unique and personally yours as any area of your home.

Any bathroom can be a wellness oasis, a place for starting the day on a cheerful note or ending it on a relaxing one. Creating the right atmosphere here is largely a task for artificial lighting – whether there is a window in the room or not.

You also have to set in your mind that there are at least two components (general and mirror lighting) needed to ensure lighting comfort in your bathroom. General bathroom lighting recommends surface-mounted ceiling bathroom lights or recessed ceiling luminaries such as down lights. What is important to remember is that the amount of light required depends on the design of the bathroom. Dark tiles reflect less light, so more luminaries or more powerful lamps are needed to achieve the same brightness as in a bathroom with light-colored tiles.

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Making the Switch to a Greener Lighting System

October 20th, 2010

Turning green and doing something good for mother earth does not always entail drastic change of lifestyle. Little things such as changing your home’s lighting can do so much for the planet. A small step like this will turn into a big thing if maintained and encouraged.

The average US household makes use of 45 light bulbs to illuminate everything from the basement up to the attic. Making the switch to a greener source of light is becoming more and more popular nowadays due to the fact that the concern for global warming is alarmingly increasing, plus you can save a decent amount of money.

Why should you change your home’s lighting? Modern homes are usually equipped with CFLs, the standard and perhaps mostly used type of light bulb. It has Phosphor which is a chemical compound inside the bulb used to convert ultra violet radiation into visible light. However, for added efficiency, CFLs are also added with the dangerous toxic mercury.

If you are about to dispose a CFL light bulb, you can’t just throw it away like how you would dispose of an incandescent bulb. There is an elaborate list of things to do if you should break a CFL bulb in your home. A broken CFL bulb will instantly disperse mercury into the air causing nausea and dizziness. On a more serious note, once inhaled, mercury can affect your central nervous system, leaving permanent damage. On a massive note, 50,000 pounds of mercury waste are dumped into landfills every year.

The future of green light bulbs may very well be in light emitting diodes or LED bulbs. Yes, these little guys may be a bit expensive but you are assured of more efficient lighting output. In fact, LED bulbs only use 2-10 watts of electricity, a third of CFLs. They can last for 60,000 hours, six times longer than CFLs. In addition, they run cool, releasing little damaging gas into the atmosphere and you can touch them without burning your hands. Recent innovations made them more durable than incandescent bulbs and CFLs.

Because LED bulbs are so efficient, they can potentially cut your energy bill by 25%. There are a lot more benefits that LED lights can provide. You may be surprised that the savings are far more notable than the lighting system you’ve been using all these years. So make the switch and turn green!

Lighting Stage To Make The Performance Excel

December 12th, 2009

In order to accommodate the complexity of this project, we first asked the hotel to send us a list of the various room orientations that they required. Dinner parties, seminars, group therapy sessions, and business presentation meetings were all included on the very extensive list we received from the client.. The conference has been renovated recently in such a way that it can be used to host a variety of functions. It has been furnished with new tables, chairs, formal dining tables and architectural lighting so that it can be used for a variety of occasions and special events other than seminars and business meeting. The hotel room was set up with the old fluorescent hotel lighting system. Now the conference room well demands a new lighting system as it has outgrown its capabilities so that it can attract rentals for all the many events for which it could now be used.

There is a need for erecting multiple switch points in order to create different layers of light in different portions of the conference room. There were a number of shows arriving at the local town showcasing products and activities that are meant to attract an older audience. The conference room demands a highly energy efficient lights so that it can host events such as coin show and other product showcases where broad and high visibility is the prime concern. The conference room also needs superior colour rendering, so another layer of architectural lighting from a halogen source would be necessary to make certain that people could clearly distinguish colours when looking through merchandise.

The hotel asked us if we could install hotel lighting by the small stage in the conference room where speakers and musical guests periodically performed. Hotel equipment is not our normal forte, but we told the hotel we would commit ourselves to developing a solution as part of the overall conference room hotel lighting system. Our project would not have been so effective without using our photometric software. Using IES files on a number of different fixture options, we were able to model dozens of hypothetical architectural lighting

scenarios for the conference room’s many possible uses. This allowed us to develop not only a precise equipment list for the hotel, but more importantly, a plan for hotel lighting control in the conference room that would allow management to change the levels and type of light in the conference room quicker than they could change the setup. Placing the main light is, of course, our first decision. It is the simplest thing we could draw to convincingly represent a ball; without the highlight and shadow, it could just as well be a ring, a hole, or a disk. This new system now allows event coordinators to either turn all lights on at maximum capacity when high lux levels when required, and to turn off fluorescent hotel lighting and precisely adjust incandescent sources and sconces to architectural lighting levels specifically appropriate to respective functions.

Impress Your Guest With Home Lighting

October 3rd, 2009

Our client was a large hotel on the East Coast looking to completely replace the existing lighting design system in one of their conference rooms. The conference room had recently been renovated creating a clean, open space that could be setup for a variety of functions. With the addition of tables, chairs, benches, or formal dining tables, the conference room could be used for a variety of occasions and special events in addition to seminars and business meetings. The problem was that as soon as renovations were complete, hotel management quickly realized that the conference room had now outgrown the capabilities of its primitive fluorescent lighting system, and that it would require a more advanced source of light in order to attract rentals for all the many events for which it could now be used.

In order to accommodate the complexity of this project, we first asked the hotel to send us a list of the various room orientations that they envisioned. Dinner parties, seminars, group therapy sessions, and business presentation meetings were all included on the very extensive list we received from the client. This indicated to us immediately that we would need to install more than one source of conference Hotel Lighting in order to fulfil all of the client’s expectations. We would also need to create multiple switching points to create different layers of light in different portions of the conference room. Mood setting was not the primary goal here, but practical use instead. There were a number of shows coming to town that featured products and activities that tended to attract an older audience. The conference room lighting would need the brightest and most energy efficient lights to host events such as coin shows and other product showcases where detail and high visibility were of the utmost concern. There was also a need for superior colour rendering, so another layer of lighting from a halogen source would be necessary to make certain that people could clearly distinguish colours when looking through merchandise.

The conference room also had a small stage where speakers and musical guests periodically performed. The hotel asked us if we could install Home lighting here. Stage lighting equipment is not our normal forte, but we told the hotel we would commit ourselves to developing a solution as part of the overall conference room lighting system.

We simply could not have done this project so effectively without our photometric software. Using IES files on a number of different fixture options, we were able to model dozens of hypothetical lighting scenarios for the conference room’s many possible uses. This allowed us to develop not only a precise equipment list for the hotel, but more importantly, a plan for lighting control in the conference room that would allow management to change the levels and type of light in the conference room quicker than they could change the setup.

This new system now allows event coordinators to either turn all lights on at maximum capacity when high foot candle levels were required, and to turn off fluorescent lighting and precisely adjust incandescent sources and sconces to lighting levels specifically appropriate to respective functions.

Studio Lighting For Your Protection

October 2nd, 2009

The solar collection cell can then be located a distance away, for example, on the roof where it will get plenty of sunlight. Before purchasing outdoor Flood lights, ask yourself a few questions such as where do I need light outdoors and for what purpose do I need this outdoor light? Remember that too much glaring light improperly directed is worse than no light at all and that light that is too weak defeats the purpose of installing outdoor Flood lights. Try to get it right before going to the trouble if installing outdoor lights.

We have all seen them, maybe while trick or treating or just walking home from the neighbour’s house at night. Outdoor security light helps keep your home light during the hours of darkness. Most of these outdoor lights provide motion detection and will turn on automatically when something or someone moves in the vicinity of the exterior of your home. Security lights are very cost effective and a great addition to any home security system. They flood the exterior of your home with light at the slightest detection of movement. There are many reasons why you should look into adding outdoor security lights to your home security system.

Outdoor security lights help to prevent crime, how you ask well let’s just say that you are a burglar and you have picked the house you were going to burglarize. You step onto the lawn or the driveway and whoosh you are flooded in light. Wouldn’t you run? I know I would. You can’t break in to someone’s house in the light without the fear of being seen and then recognized. Chances are the burglar is going to pick a house where they can break in undetected under the cover of darkness. Security lights also provide and added safety benefit to you the homeowner who gets home late after dark. Your security lights will come on the second you walk up to your door, letting you see in the dark and getting you to your front door safely. Unless you are a teenager trying to sneak in your house at night, this is a great alternative to trying to see in the dark.

Outdoor security lights also save you the homeowner money. The lights only come on when there is movement, instead of having your porch light on all night long. The police even recommend that you get Studio lighting for you home, saying that they are a great crime deterrent for keeping criminals away. Also a little added benefit for having outdoor security lights is it scars away pests such as cats and rabbits and if you live in the mountains, deer and raccoons. This is great if you have ever woken up to garbage everywhere because a raccoon decided to go through your trash in the middle of the night. Now you know the many benefits of outdoor security lights and how they can keep your home safe. If you have a security system and you want to protect your family and your home, think about adding outdoor security lights to your home security system today.