Black Light Buyers Guide
Black lights serve a number of purposes from enhancing the style of nightclubs and bowling alleys to checking beds and tables for infection or infestation. Still, like any piece of electronics, some...
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Can Island Lighting Be Used Over a Dining Room Table?
In the dining room and the kitchen, lighting is one of the most important elements. Light fixtures help create a mood or echo a design scheme in a room, as well as provide important ambiance or task...
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Guide to Creative Lighting
Lighting your home doesn't have to be an afterthought, yet many people concentrate on choosing furniture, paint colors, curtains and accent pieces without thinking about the light that makes those...
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Bathroom & Lighting
Most people begin the day in the bathroom, showering and performing daily care to get ready for school or work. This makes the room's lighting a crucial part of getting a good start on your day. The...
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Residential Lighting Design Guide
Your residential lighting design is perhaps one aspect of interior design and decorating that you don't consider as often as other elements. The thing to keep in mind is that how your home is lit has a...
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What Kind of Gas Is in a Fluorescent Light Bulb?
The gas that fills a fluorescent light bulb is mostly argon, with traces of mercury. This is the case with both the classic fluorescent tubes and modern compact fluorescent lamps, or CFLs.
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Bathroom Lighting Recommendations
Your bathroom is where you prepare for the day and then prepare for sleep when the day is done. The lighting you have in your bathroom can help or hinder you in both of these tasks. Make the tasks...
View Article1940s-Style Lighting
The lighting styles of the 1940s drew their influences from sources as varied as Egyptian art to the geometrical art of Pablo Picasso. However, the lighting style during that era was just as much a...
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Types of Supplementary Task Lighting
Task lighting supplements your home's general lighting by providing a separately controlled light source that focuses on a single area. The term comes from the idea that the single-area focus helps you...
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Light Fixtures in Bathrooms
When considering light fixtures for your bathroom, your first concern must be safety; water and electricity can be a dangerous combination. Once you ensure that your lighting scheme is safe, then you...
View ArticleHow to Install a Grundtal Light in an Ikea Cabinet
Ikea sells furniture and home accessories in its stores around the globe. Ikea sells its furniture in knocked-down form, and the purchaser must assemble it. This enables the company to sell its items...
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Information on Chinese Lanterns
Chinese lanterns are decorative lighting fixtures that are used around the world to brighten up homes. They usually consist of a bulb or candle surrounded on all sides by a translucent shell made from...
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Ideas for Specialty Shower Lighting
Shower lighting is both a safety issue and an aesthetic one. To be safe, shower lights should provide enough illumination to allow you to see what you are doing and observe the floor and walls clearly...
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How to Light Your Home With Diodes
Conventional incandescent light bulbs transform a lot of the energy they use into heat, so many people have become interested in using alternative forms of lighting such as skylights and fluorescent...
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Lighting for a Sea Anemone
A reef tank setup is not complete without sea anemones and clownfish to live between their jelly-like tentacles. Successfully keeping anemones in tanks requires matching the lighting system with the...
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How to Build Your Own LED Light Panel
An LED (Light Emitting Diode) light panel is a square (although it can be other shapes), flat panel that has LED lights covering one side. LED lights are durable, produce little heat and consume a...
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External Lighting Guide
Exterior lighting can be utilized for a number of functions ranging from the purely decorative to ones that enhance your safety. Your design for exterior lighting involves aspects of home ownership...
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How to Make a Square Paper Lantern
Paper lanterns were used in festivals and ceremonies throughout the history of China and Japan. Although they were mainly used for lighting, they also decorated the area with the variety of designs and...
View ArticleHow to Make a Drum Shade Pendant
Drum shade pendant lights are decorative and functional additions to any room. They provide overhead illumination anywhere you want accent lighting. Pendant lights generally cost hundreds of dollars,...
View ArticleHigh Pressure Sodium Bulb Illumination Vs. Quartz
Both high-pressure sodium and quartz halogen light bulbs offer increased life over standard incandescent light bulbs. Both produce a white light and operate at high temperatures.
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