Resources on Home Lighting

Home Interior Lighting and Home Exterior Lighting For Safety and Security
Article from American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) reminds seniors that as they get older, they need to add and/or increase both exterior lighting and home interior lighting. Article provides practical tips like moving chairs by windows for sunlight reading, doing maintenance on lighting to maintain illumination, and placement of both switches and lights for increased safety and security.

Using Lighting for Home Decoration
NBC offers practical home lighting tips and ideas on this website. Sections include lighting for home security, lighting for function and fashion, refreshing your home with proper lighting, bathroom lighting, choosing a light bulb, working with lighting dimmers in the dining room, installing outdoor lighting, and a gallery of options to help you use lighting to decorate and enhance the mood of your home.

Lighting Tips for Specific Rooms
A collection of lighting tips including sections on lighting for bathrooms, kitchens, trade show exhibits, dining rooms, and general home lighting. Tips for light dimmers, fluorescent lighting in the home including electronic ballasts and low temperature light sources, low-voltage halogen lighting, indirect lighting, pendants, track lighting, under cabinet lighting and xenon lighting. Sections on lighting for the aging and the health issues associated with lighting are also included.

Lighting Efficiency Ratings and Meter
Light bulb information about how to pick the right light bulb for your home lighting needs. Including fluorescent, halogen flood, metal halide and incandescent light bulb guide that also includes energy efficiency specifications of each bulb, as well as bulb life predictions. Easy to use tables present information clearly. Also included are tips to control lighting usage, including and informative meter where visitors can type in their lighting usage hours per day and the number of bulbs they use to calculate an energy bill.

Lighting Tips from SeeMyDesign.com
Illuminating ideas offers lighting tips, the most common types of light bulbs, integrating a lighting scheme into the interior design and figuring out energy costs. Descriptions of incandescent light, tungsten bulbs, and tungsten=halogen bulbs. Making the most of fluorescents is offered to produce even lighting. A lighting design planner link is offered, and all the questions you need to ask to design your lighting plan are mentioned. Finally, a section on energizing lights and choosing affordable lights is included, which states that you should use low-wattage bulbs, clean globes, bulbs and fixtures and not using a higher wattage bulb than necessary.