Commercial & Residential Lighting Information

Two barn pendants and one gooseneck barn light on a country porch. Image from Cobblestone Farms.

In recent years, barn lights have emerged as a hot lighting trend. Their sustained popularity suggests that they're here to stay. What is a barn light, and why might you choose it for your home or business?
Broadly defined, a [...]

These three glass pendant lights add style to a traditional kitchen.

A kitchen island often serves as the heart of the home, and pendant lights over the kitchen island add extra illumination to this important spot. Once you've decided to hang pendant lights over your kitchen island, how do you make sure they look [...]

As the Kelvin color temperature goes up, light gets more blue.

As we move away from incandescent light bulbs and toward energy-efficient options like fluorescent and LED, light temperature is getting a lot more attention. Not how hot or cold the bulb feels to your fingers, but how warm or cool it looks to your [...]

A CFL bulb with an integrated ballast. These are also called "self-ballasted" CFLs. Image from EE Times.

As efficient lighting design continues to evolve, more and more projects use alternatives to traditional incandescent lamps. The easiest and most common option is the compact fluorescent lamp, or CFL. Along with a transition to CFLs comes a [...]