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Your patio is one of the most used outdoor areas of your home.  It’s really an extension of your house and functions more as an additional room than as a part of your yard.  Your patio can be used to cook up a barbecue, entertain people, eat your meals, or just as a tranquil place to relax after a long day and read a book or sip some drinks.  With myriad ways you can use your patio why would you want the sun to dictate when you can and can’t use it?  Using some great patio lighting ideas, you can brighten your patio area and give it a character of its own at night.

When you’re trying to come up with great patio lighting ideas you need to first take into account the size of your patio.  How many lights will it actually take for the patio to be lit?  Also think about what type of mood your want to set and what you are going to be using your patio for.  If you’re planning on having romantic dinners the lighting that you’ll want to install will be much different than if you were planning on reading or setting up an outdoor bar.  If you are planning on installing an bar, the outdoor bar guide is a great resource for setup and lighting options.  Once you’ve decided what level and color of light that you want, you can move on to installing the light fixtures.

The Top Patio Lighting Fixtures

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If you are expecting a new addition to the family, you are probably planning your baby nursery design. While most parents-to-be are hectic figuring out the best colors or the overall design scheme, they may forget about an important aspect of the room: proper lighting for the nursery. Lighting is an important consideration when planning a nursery. Poor lighting may result in minor or even major accidents for your baby! A well-lit nursery with the right level of indoor lighting at the right time of day will do wonders for your baby’s sleep routine, and as you might already know, promote growth and brain development.

Your baby’s first year is an important and critical stage in life. This is why so much emphasis is placed on having a wide range of nursery light fixtures. It’s good to have light fixtures for ambient lighting, area lighting, subdued nursery lighting and en route lighting installed pre-delivery.

Ambient lighting serves to brighten up an entire nursery. The most popular lighting fixtures are nursery chandeliers, mini chandeliers, recessed baby ceiling lighting, hanging nursery lamps, children’s ceiling fans, wall baby lamps and wall sconces.

For specific tasks performed in the nursery, such as feeding and diaper changing, area light is necessary. You will want to shed a bright, concentrated light on a specific area without flooding the whole space with glaring light, or you might stimulate your sleepy baby’s senses and cause him to wake up. To give you that bright ray of light, you may want to use wall sconces, baby floor lamps, floor chandeliers or table nursery lamps.

There will be unavoidable moments when your baby will need you in the middle of the night. As parents, you will need a soft nursery light to guide you as you are moving around the room. Additionally, a soft light will not wake up your baby, nor will it aggravate him. Your choices for soft nursery lights range from a ceiling light with a dimmer switch, plugged-in night lights, a night light lamp, fairy lights, paper lanterns with lights inside, a teddy night light, a monorail that comes with a night light, or a soft light show. (more…)

Technology moves along ever faster, and that means continual improvement for eco friendly solar panels and LED light bulbs, both of which are key components to all exterior solar lighting.  It has gotten to the point where a high quality solar light fixture using an energy-sipping LED light bulb can last for eight or more hours per charge, often at strengths that approach conventional lighting.

If the weather has you thinking about installing an outdoor lighting system in the garden, solar garden lights may have a part to play if you’re looking to save energy.  Here are four kinds of solar landscape lights you can expect to find:

Lighting up your landscape with Best Solar Path Lights

You have surely seen these before–they line many a garden pathway.  Available in all kinds of shapes, sizes and colors, they now come with a dusk to dawn sensor that tells the light when to light up and when to recharge the battery.  Not only can you opt for short lights with a spike you put into the ground, but also other options such as hanging lanterns, and they all suit the same purpose of providing a lighting aura to assist you in finding your way along any pathway.

Solar Post Lights

Think of the romantic Victorian gaslights that used to line the streets before electricity made them obsolete.  Available in all kinds of materials, such as aluminum, brass, or iron, among others, these large LED solar post lights recreate the nostalgia of years gone by in a far more energy efficient manner. Not only do they bear a solar sensor and rechargeable battery, but each fixture will likely also have a series of reflecting plates to magnify the available light.  These lights are understandably much more expensive than other options, but if you have the budget and the right spot in your garden to put them, they can make a marvelous addition to light your yard at night.

Solar Spot Lights

If security or a spotlight on an object is more your concern, solar LED lights have something for you, too.  Either way, you need a powerful light that can be brought to bear on either your beautiful fountain or that burglar lurking in your bushes.  The joint feature these lights share in common is that they are actually comprised of multiple LED bulbs.  A security light may have 80 or more of these tiny bulbs that together make for an overpowering light that will stop illegal activity in its tracks.  A spotlight to highlight a garden feature or tree only needs about three or so bulbs to achieve the intended effect.  Solar security lights have the added benefit of coming with motion sensors, which will turn the light on exactly when it is needed.

Solar Specialty Lights

The last category catches everything else that can be grouped generally under the term of “decorative lighting”.  Only your imagination limits what you can choose.  You can find tiny pinnacle lights, stepping stone lights, water feature lights, little lanterns, and a multitude of lights in various shapes and colors to make your garden shine at night–but you will need something else for more powerful guiding or spot lights. (more…)

Lights outside the front of homes used to be a very expensive affair, and an elaborate outside lighting setup was really reserved for those people that were in high paid jobs and had some cash to spare.  However, with recent advances in technology, it is now possible to light the front of your home for very little cost indeed.  Lighting outside the front of your home does not only look great, but it also provides a very effective deterrent to thieves and other people that may be up to no good.  Here are a few of your options when looking at lights for the outside of your home:

Porch lights

Porch lights go next to your front door and are essential for you to see who is at your front door and what they’re up to, as well as to help light the way to your front entryway at night.  You can get lights that are motion controlled if you prefer, so they only come on when people get near your home.  These are a great way to save electricity because you don’t have to remember to switch them on and off and they don’t remain on for long extended periods of time.

Driveway lights

These are another good way of lighting the front of your home.  Solar powered driveway lights are very easy to install, as they require no cables.  They produce a dim, but useful, light and will allow you to see where the lock is on your car and will also help guide your car up and down the driveway.  They’re also very handy for highlighting the silhouettes of people, and so again will provide a useful deterrent against thieves. (more…)

The blend of LED and light has resulted in numerous rewards to the human race. The lighting solutions that perform based on the LED technologies are considered to be far superior as compared to the other alternatives accessible in the industry these days. You can now use super bright LED and light up your home beautifully.

There are innumerable benefits offered by the LED light bar as compared to other options like xenon lamps and halogen light bars.

LED lamps are also way far better compared to incandescent and CFL lights and can be utilized to replace them everywhere. What makes these LED lights so valuable is their power efficiency with excellent luminosity for low wattage. Thus, you can make do with a 4 – five Watt LED lamp exactly where even a 20 Watt lamp of one more range wouldn’t suffice.
The improved lighting output in lumens makes it possible for you to light up your home, both inside and outside with out actually worrying about the power bills. This becomes especially valuable when you want to maintain the lighting in your driveways, on your stair railings, in the gardens and around the poolside on for long hours.
You can use LED and light the exteriors of your home without really worrying about the climate. This is one more critical benefit of LED lamps. LED lamps and light bars typically come in very dependable and sturdy ABS, polycarbonate or die cast and extruded aluminum housing.

The polycarbonate bases and UV inhibitor domes supply excellent encapsulation which also keeps the LED lamps, moisture and corrosion resistant. In reality, LED light bars can also be created vibration and high impact resistant, which enhances their longevity to a excellent degree. (more…)