How to Design & Install an Exterior Landscape Lighting System | Home Guides

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Create spectacular effects with landscape lighting. Ryan McVay/Lifesize/Getty Images Low-voltage landscape lighting brings your yard alive after dark. Designing and installing exterior landscape lighting requires planning and creativity. As a general rule of thumb, fewer lights are better. Highlighting some landscape features, providing safety and creating ambiance are just a […]

Luxury Furniture, Designer Homeware & Lighting

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Landscape Lighting 101 – Bob Vila

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Photo: kichleir.com Landscape lighting can turn a visitor from feeling wary to welcome. It can change the rest of the yard from Nightmare on Elm Street to Some Enchanted Evening, all with the flip of a switch. The first step in this transformation is to educate yourself about the possibilities. […]

Landscape Lighting Design CT – Alexia Lighting Design

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Landscape Wall & Post Lanterns Driveway/Pathway/Step & Stair Column Mounts Deck/Gazebo/Trellis Pool Area Lighting Water Gardens & Ponds Patio & Grill Testimonials I have had several companies service my residential outside lighting over the past 10 years and after most of them became less and less reliable, I stumbled upon […]

Lighting Design | WBDG – Whole Building Design Guide

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Introduction History While observing lines of dirt and debris frozen in a glacier, the British physicist, John Tyndall noted in 1860 that more light on an object did not necessarily increase its visibility. Despite this observation, cheap and abundant electricity led to lighting design in the mid twentieth century that […]

Exterior Lighting Design

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Simon Dove     A computer-generated image showing proposals for the illumination of the old Corn Exchange building, Manchester (Image: Hoare Lea CGI) The majority of our historic buildings existed long before Edison had even thought about his lamp. Today, however, artificial lighting is indispensable both within these buildings and […]

How to Use Lighting as an Interior Design Element

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Home & Garden Decorating How to Use Lighting as an Interior Design Element By Katharine Kaye McMillan, Patricia Hart McMillan You don’t have to know everything about lighting or spend tons of money to make rooms look light and lively. You do need to know the basics of functional and […]