Lighting schemes should match the season, for reasons of cost, safety and optimal design.
Everyone is familiar with stringing Christmas lights. Around December, displays of multi-colored lights decorate houses both inside and out, as well as many office buildings. But Christmas is only one of the many occasions when people use lights for decoration. And, decoration [...]

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!
Depending on the shape and style of your deck you can provide just a few accents, or you can go the whole way with post lights, [...]

Dimmer switches are a great convenience. They help save electricity and allow you to adjust the atmosphere of a room. Sometimes you just don’t want to be blasted in a pool of light. But many people are intimidated away from installing one where a standard switch already resides. Others have fluorescents and worry the dimmer [...]

So many people are used to thinking about wattage, they forget that word doesn’t measure brightness, but power consumption. They think of needing a brighter bulb, so they seek one that’s a higher number of watts. But that relationship only holds for incandescent bulbs (and, to a degree, halogens). When, as is more and more [...]

Want to install a dimmer switch, replace incandescent bulbs with CFLs (Compact Fluorescent Lights) or LEDs, or perform many other home lighting projects? If so, it’s helpful to know a little bit about what drives them all: electricity.
Two of the most basic concepts needed are ‘voltage’ and ‘current’. Current moves down a wire, pushed by [...]

Your five-year-old son is going to be the next Picasso, you can already tell. You want to hang his latest masterpiece on the wall and make it the focal point of the room, but how to achieve the effect?
Track lighting, of course! Track lighting offers the opportunity to much better control the mood and emphasis [...]

You may be a “do it yourself” (DIY) expert, having installed countless ceiling fans in numerous homes—both yours and those of various family and friends. However, even though you have the basics down, every DIYer knows: there’s always another trick out there to make the process a little easier. So although the following is not [...]