Sample Resources on Lighting Design

Lighting Sources and Suggestions
This site offers tips about light and color tips, as well as the four types of bulbs: incandescent, halogen, full-spectrum and fluorescent. Wall sconces, chandeliers and lamps are mentioned as lighting sources. Built-in lighting can be used to enhance artwork, and soft lighting and candlelight are also listed as decorative lighting sources. The article ends with information about how to use daylight to enhance a room, including which colors work with natural daylight.

Outdoor Lighting Concepts
Outdoor lighting essentials are discussed on this Fine Living website. Lighting guru Greg Kay shares tips to create cozy, romantic, and vibrant outdoor lighting concepts. Tips include how to light statues, lighting trees and outdoor walls, making ponds glow, using dimmer lights to welcome guests, and using motion-sensor lights for added security. Includes set of links for more information about lighting concepts.

Let Better Homes & Gardens Help You Light Up Your Life
Lighting is so important to creating the correct mood for any room, any home. This helpful article from Better Homes & Gardens discusses various types of lighting and the best ways to achieve them. First is a discussion of General Lighting and the best ways to achieve a general overall brightness to any room, but most especially the kitchen, through a combination of lighting sources including a central ceiling mounted feature, properly spaced can lighting, and recessed spotlights around the perimeter of the kitchen. Task lighting, especially as it refers to the kitchen, is best achieved, according to this article, through a combination of ceiling or wall mounted fixtures, under-cabinet lighting, and small sized fluorescent bulbs and halogen track lights. Accent lighting can be used to spotlight a kitchen's best feature and is best achieved through a mixture of track lights, wall mounted lights, and recessed lights which are brighter than the general lighting. The use of a dimmer can add mood. The article is rounded out with a helpful discussion of bulb types, including incandescent, fluorescent, and tungsten-halogen.

New Lighting Designs
This online site for Contract Lighting magazine, catering to contract and hospitality lighting, allows users to view the latest in creative interior lighting designs, locate lighting shows, seminars and conventions or search for manufacturers, architects and lighting representatives as well as view select articles from the latest issue of Contract Lighting.