Last seen: Dec 10, 2018
Table lamps and floor lamps with bright coloured shades can be a great feature in your rooms.
It should be noted that setting up smart lights is a bit fiddly, but once they are set up, you never have to fiddle with them again.
Ideally each office table should have a desk lamp so that the worker can improve their lighting above and beyond the overhead lights. A desk light s...
Since others have amply covered both the initial cost of an LED bulb and its advantage over time, I’ll go the other way: times it makes sense not to g...
Because LEDs do not have a filament, they hold up extremely well to bumping.
You will notice that LED lights are a bit pricier than the regular ones. This is because LEDs are more expensive to manufacture, but the benefits of g...
LED lights contain no toxic elements. Most offices currently use fluorescent strip lights which contain noxious chemicals such as mercury. This will c...
Make sure you don't forget dimmers. They are fantastic for mood and entertaining and very expensive to install later on.
Whatever colour temperature you use, one of the most important things about the light is the color rendering index (CRI). This measures how good the l...
For outdoor garden lights, 12V is much better than 240V as you can put the cable underground just slightly beneath the surface and there is no danger ...
A critical thing for safety (both outdoors and indoors, now that I think of it) is wattage rating. A light will have a sticker on it like "maximum w...
"The bottom of a pendant light should be 30 to 36 inches above a kitchen island. "The bottom of a chandelier should be 66 inches from the floor in a d...
The invention of incandescent light bulb by Thomas Alva Edison and his team, was one of the greatest invention in the history. After continuous resear...
LEDs are so small they can be used in virtually any application you can think of. They can be combined in bunches for a traditional bulb, used in isol...
Bad lighting can lead to eye strain, which in turn can lead to irritated eyes, dry eyes, headaches etc.
Huge number of cheap LEDs (ie LED lights with low quality drivers) on the market, which will have a high failure rate.
Good lighting absolutely critical, which is why top hotels will invest massively in it. First impressions are very important and created instantly, ...
Old fashioned fluorescent tubes, particularly if they are slightly flickering, is a major cause of eye strain.
LED high bays these days are incredible engineering machines! You can even get IP rated high bays that can be installed outside.