DIY – Lighting – Track Lighting

For a time, track lighting was a fairly cheesy choice. But that was never inherent in the design. Any form of lighting can look poor when the lighting scheme and fixture design are weak. It’s also true that overuse of any one style will get old when it becomes overwhelmingly common.

But new styles have brought track lighting back to a well-deserved prominence in lighting design schemes.

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DIY – Lighting – Exterior Lighting Ideas

The three aspects of lighting – ambient, task and accent – apply to exterior lighting just as they do for interior illumination. But the way they’re implemented will be very different.

Where an interior room angle is, say, 90 degrees the outside corner is also thought of as 90 degrees. But, measured the same way, it’s actually 270 degrees. That difference produces just one of the many wrinkles inherent in an exterior lighting scheme. Add to that the presence of bushes, trees, few if any enclosed hallways or spaces and you have a decidedly different environment to illuminate.

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DIY – Lighting – Solar Lawn Lights

Edison’s invention is about 100 years old. It’s about time we thought about using something a little more up to date.

Actually Edison didn’t invent the light bulb. He improved it, devising one in 1879 that burned for 40 hours, achieving 1,220 hours a year later (a number a little better than modern incandescent bulbs, 750-1,000 hours). GE patented tungsten-filament bulbs in 1906.

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DIY – Lighting – Illuminate the Garage

Garage lighting often gets little attention. An incandescent bulb or two, maybe a fluorescent fixture and it’s considered finished. But a garage can have many uses and lighting is often poorly designed for most of them.

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DIY – Lighting – Lighting Your Decks

Don’t limit your deck lighting scheme to a paltry porch light. Deck lighting should encompass more than just a little bit of necessary illumination. It should make your deck shine!

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Learn all About Outdoor Lighting Systems

An outdoor lighting system is as integral to the functioning of the household as the lighting system being used inside the house. Hence, while buying an outdoor lighting system, it is important to research the matter carefully and completely before investing in the lighting system. Read more

Learn all About Portable Work Lights

Portable work lights have become extremely popular. Let us understand the working of the portable light system. A portable work light has an outer shell which helps to characterize an aperture in the structure. Read more

All About Under Water Lighting

Under Water Lighting:

Under water lighting is another type of lighting which is mainly used either  for decoration purposes,  or for underwater explorations and related tasks.  In swimming pools,  which are very deep,  provisions are made for under water lights for the safety of the swimmers. Read more

Everything You Need To Know About Halogen Track Lighting

Halogen Track Lighting:

Track lighting is a method of making long continuous chains of lights.  In this method, Light devices or fixtures are attached to a long track device.  This track device should be continuous.  All the lights which are joined to the continuous track device are connected to each other and to the source through a conductor (usually wires).  Hence from this method,  Many lights can be connected together and lighted from the same source or power supply,  instead of lighting each light separately. Read more

What You Need To Know About Landscape Lighting

Landscape Lighting:

Landscape lighting Is more used for decoration and aesthetic purposes than for the sole purpose of Lighting.  Since its main use is in decoration,  a lot of care and importance should be given while selecting the color,  design and the position of such Landscape fixtures,  while decorating.

For example: While decorating a garden,  the colors and the design should blend in with the aura of the garden.  That is, For decorating the plants and leaves, appropriate colored lights should be chosen,  which should be bright in color resembling the color of the flowers and for decorating the Garden gates and walls, other colored lights,  which are not as bright can be selected.

Other light sources,  Like other LED lights,  etc.  should be kept dim and their brightness should be minimal so that they remain in accordance with the landscape lighting.  The main reason for keeping other light sources dim is that they should not cause light pollution or glare, and also the beauty of the landscape lighting remains maintained.

Near the cooking and Eating areas,  fancy candles can be used for decoration.  Other small temporary means of lights like small lamps and shades,  small candles,  etc.  can also be used.

Using deep blue light for decorating the Pool,  water fountain may also look neat and creative.  The light level indoors should not be the same as the level outdoors, in order to observe the real beauty of Landscape lighting.  The light levels should be varying.  Indoors,  it could be dim,  while outdoors,  it could be made bright,  or vice versa,  according to our needs.

The landscape lighting sources should be kept obscure from the visitors and must be kept near ground levels,  for the purpose of safety of the people.

Many such small lights, placed and decorated beautifully near yards or gardens can really create a warm,  flamboyant and inviting atmosphere.

Solar lighting or low voltage lighting are easily available in the market and are not very expensive.  These can be easily purchased and installed.  Where as the exterior lightnings,  which gets powered by the household current itself,  are very expensive to purchase and install and consume a lot of electricity.

But, whether you use exterior lights or low voltage lights,  you also have to purchase the wires, accessories and other lighting tools and fixtures for the purpose of establishing a lighting circuit outdoors.  And you must decorate and fix the light outdoors in presence of a professional,  experienced and qualified lighting installer,  and must follow all the general safety norms especially if you want to power the lights through the household electric current.

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