Lighting can make a big difference in how you feel about your home.
It helps you perform tasks more easily, makes you feel safer and more comfortable, and allows you to enjoy your home to its full potential. Lighting adds beauty and drama to a room. It can make a small room look open and airy, […]
General Lighting provides an area with overall illumination. Also known as ambient lighting, general lighting radiates a comfortable level of brightness, enabling one to see and walk about safely. It can be accomplished with chandeliers, ceiling or wall-mounted fixtures, recessed or track lights, and with lanterns outside your home. A basic form of lighting that […]
A good rule of thumb would be anywhere between 24″ and 30″ inches from the counter or island top. Factors you should take into acount would be:
How much of the bulb is exposed?
What and how much light does the fixture give off?
Can your kids reach them? (Some fixtures get really hot and can be fragile)
This is referred to as voltage drop. This occurs when the landscape lights are placed too far relative to the transformer. It is recommended that you use a magnetic transformer for landscape low-volatge systems, however, when the circuits run extra long (50+ feet) voltage drop can still occur. In order to fix this problem, you […]
The number of lights you can have depends on the wattage of the bulbs in each lamp. The wattage used per lamp correlates with the wattage of the transformer.
For example: You can have 15 lights at 20 watts each, or 6 lights at 50 watts each.
Outdoor fixtures enhance the beauty of your property, make your home safer and more secure, and increase the number of pleasurable hours you spend outdoors. And they are an investment that pays off handsomely in the value they add to your home.
Recessed Lighting can provide general, task, or accent lighting inconspicuously. Installed in the ceiling with only the trim showing, recessed fixtures can be used anywhere in the home, including outdoors under eaves. They are available as downlights, adjustable accent lights, and wall washers in both standard and low-voltage current and a choice of incandescent, tungsten-halogen, […]
