Home Improvement

For those of you who are looking to start updating the look of your home, consider starting with the outside first. After all, the exterior of your home is the first thing that visitors see as they approach your house. What better way to greet visitors and let them know that you’re available than with outdoor lighting? Whether it’s a post mounted lantern, porch lights, or ceiling mounted lights, outdoor lighting is an ideal way to give your home a fresh look.

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March 17th, 2008 | Tags: bathroom lighting, chandelier, floor lamp, home decor, interior decorating, lighti, outdoor lighting | Category: Home Improvement | Leave a comment

Novelty lighting is one of the best ways to add personality into any individual room or home without compromising on the actual purpose of the lamp, which is to illuminate your home. But what’s funny is that not too many people consider purchasing a novelty light for fear that it may clash with their current décor or may even come off as tacky. This doesn’t always have to be the case; as long as you’re just as choosy in picking your novelty lighting as you are about your furniture, house, car, you know, you’re life basically, then you should be okay.

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March 3rd, 2008 | Tags: bathroom lighting, chandelier, floor lamp, lamps, lighting, outdoor lighting, sconces, table lamps | Category: Home Improvement | Leave a comment

When setting up a pool table in your rec room, basement or garage, consider this: it’s not easy playing pool in the dark. Skilled as you may be, playing pool without the proper lighting just isn’t feasible! The solution to this easily avoidable mishap: island lights. Some of you may already be familiar with island lighting since it’s usually used over the islands in your kitchen. In fact, most new homes already come with island lights, if not track lighting. Occasionally, bars and buffets in dining rooms are sometimes equipped with such lighting for both aesthetic and utilitarian purposes.

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February 28th, 2008 | Tags: bathroom lighting, chandelier, Chandeliers, floor lamp, home, interior decorating, outdoor lighting | Category: Home Improvement | Leave a comment

Have you ever watched an episode of the “Fabulous Life of…” on VH-1 or even “Cribs” on MTV and have grown progressively more and more bitter because your house doesn’t look as flashy and expensive as that fabulous celebrity’s? Or do you sit there and wonder what you can do to your home so that it looks just as good as theirs, but without the major price tag? Instead of throwing cookies and your remote control at the TV, why not try and achieve that celebrity style? Easier than you think, the first thing that you can do to change the way your house looks is by investing and installing some new lighting.

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January 30th, 2008 | Tags: bathroom lighting, Chandeliers, floor lamp, home de, interior decorating, lighting, outdoor lighting | Category: Home Improvement | Leave a comment

If you’re from a major metropolitan area such as Los Angeles or New York, then you’re surely familiar with all the bright lights that illuminate every busy intersection, billboard, department store and street. With the populous amount of lighting that turns any large city ablaze light pollution becomes a major problem. Light pollution is one of the culprits as to why we can’t even see the infinite amount of stars in the night sky; the other major culprit being air pollution. Combine the two together and you have a recipe for a smoggy, hazy atmosphere that blankets the city.

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January 20th, 2008 | Tags: bathroom lighting, chandelier, floor lamp, home, interior decorating, outdoor lighting, table lamps | Category: Home Improvement | Leave a comment