Track Lighting Design That’s Smart and Sustainable

Savvy Salon Style With Grip Lock Lighting and SORAA LED Bulbs: Smart track lighting solutions for a smart design-a true story about sustainable track lighting design. Calleis Salon and Spa. Photography by Wandering Albatross Photography Concept: an Aveda Salon, Calleis Salon and Spa, wanted an image of their space to work functionally and to have…

What is Specular Lighting and When Is It Good?

Specular lighting is a reflective light which causes highlights upon the object(s) it is lighting-that bright spot that you see on the object from the reflective light is what is known as specular light. OK, so now you are asking me, “why is this important to me?”.  You might not care about the fact that…

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Lighting Your Kitchen Like Pro

Whether one is doing a kitchen remodel or starting from scratch, the lighting design is frequently the last thing considered and often the first thing to get cut from the budget. Design and planning should be phase 1 of a kitchen project whether you are starting from scratch or remodeling. If you want your lighting…

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Unequivocally, the most perfect LED MR-16 you can buy

We have all waited a long time for technology to catch up to our expectations of the perfect LED MR-16. The wait is over as the SORAA team took performances issues head on in their design and development of this bulb and conquered them all, we might add. Here are the top ten reasons why…

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Eliminate the Guesswork with Recessed Lighting Kits

You can make your next recessed lighting project less frustrating and more efficient with the recessed lighting kits that Total Recessed Lighting has put together. We find that a lot of people aren’t sure about which trim goes with which fixture and bulb, so we’ve put together recessed lighting kits in hopes of eliminating the…

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The PAR 38 LED versus Halogen Bulb-which is the one for you?

Questions. We get lots of questions. When we get a lot of questions in one particular area, this always prompts us to address it in a more global manner. Such as, the questions we get about LED Par 38 versus Halogen PAR 38-and which one is the better bulb. People want to know if  the…

What Does Voltage Loss Or Voltage Drop Mean To You?

LED lighting is the rage now that it is available in landscape lighting.  Understandably so, with the energy efficiency that it offers, this lowers your cost to run your lighting system not just by way of energy savings, but also by way of running it on smaller, less expensive transformers and wire. And you can…

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Now-A Showcase Light that Won’t Give You Meltdowns!!

Now, you can get an energy efficient showcase lighting that will not melt chocolate. Really? Really. This LED light fixture is ideal for many applications-it is perfect for all around showcase lighting needs and better still for those glass display cases that are difficult and limited in space. Remember that saying, ‘dynamite comes in small…

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The “KISS” Method: Keep It Super Simple

Many of you are familiar with the “KISS” method? Keep it super simple (well, there is another version out there-the “keep it simple s—–“, but we won’t use that language here!) Sometimes simple is the best. One of our clients that does large trade shows in the fashion industry came to us with a dilemma….