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Illuminating Your Bathroom to Maximize Potential
Your bathroom is utilized every day for many different tasks. In the morning, the bathroom is where you get ready and at night, it’s where you wind down after a long day. In comparison, you want a completely different atmosphere for each time of day. To accomplish this, you need to have a proper lighting…
Oversized Fixtures: A 2016 Lighting Trend
It used to be an unspoken rule that the fixtures and decorative accents in your home had to be proportional to the size of the area, otherwise everything would look off balance. Now, in 2016, it is a trend to do just the opposite! Oversized fixtures that make a bold statement is the latest craze…
Save Energy in Style
The introduction of light-emitting diode (LED) bulbs is nothing new, but their use in exterior lighting products is a relatively fresh concept. Just as you may have replaced incandescent bulbs inside your home to cut back on energy costs, have you considered doing the same outdoors? If you’re adding exterior lighting to your landscape to…
How to Use String Lighting
The summer months are a popular time for outdoor barbecues and relaxed, indoor dinner parties on cool evenings. Do you have the proper lighting to create the atmosphere you want in your indoor or outdoor living space? You may have plenty of fixtures installed, but too much light or not enough can impact your ambiance….
How to Properly Light Your Kitchen
There are three types of lighting that should be incorporated into every kitchen lighting plan; ambient, task and accent. Your kitchen serves several purposes on a daily basis that all require a different kind of illumination. How can you best light the different areas in your kitchen to create the perfect atmosphere for every activity?…
Lighting Trends of 2016
Spring is the perfect time for a lighting upgrade; no more snow from winter and the heat of summer is still months away. Trends come and go all the time, but we can see some of the ones forecasted for 2016 getting big! They can also be accomplished easily with our products. We outline five…
Keeping Your “Nest” Safe & Secure
On Wednesday, May 25, Connecticut Lighting’s Vice President, Todd Director, appeared as a guest on CT Style to discuss the Nest Home Security System. What is Nest? Nest Home Security is a Wi-Fi system that revolves around thermostat, cameras and CO/smoke detectors. You can pick and choose whether you want one, two or all three…
Selecting the Right Lighting for Your Bedroom
The main purpose of your bedroom may be for sleeping, but it is also used for other everyday tasks, like folding laundry, getting dressed and reading. You might not realize the amount of time you actually spend awake in your bedroom until you notice the poor lighting. At night and in the early morning hours,…
Keeping Your Kitchen Up-To-Date & Bright with LED Lighting
Vice President of Connecticut Lighting Centers, Todd Director, made an appearance on Better Connecticut May 17. He was interviewed by Scot Haney about light layering and the latest advances in LED, featuring Sea Gull Lighting. Under-Cabinet Lighting As Todd explained, the Sea Gull Ambiance Glyde LED Module evenly distributes light from the back to the…
Selecting the Right Ceiling Fan
Taken aback by the spring temperatures that came upon us so suddenly? We can only hope this means that we’re in for a beautiful summer! While the warm sun can be a pleasant change from blustery winter weather, the heat can sometimes be too much to bear. A stylish ceiling fan can not only save…