Resources for Home Lighting

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.

Useful Information from Philips Lighting
A light bulb can change a room, and this site features information about soft light and bright light. Lighting photographs in the Living with Lighting section highlight various bulbs and their appropriate uses and locations in homes. A Philips Lighting website, the page offers information about lighting promotions, a questions and answer section and tips for lighting.

Types of Lighting Explained
On Cascade Lighting, Inc.'s site for contractors, you'll find brief definitions of the various types of lighting in the "Creative Ideas" section and a "Landscape Lighting System Service Information" listing under "Tips and Techniques."

Light Therapy
A holistic approach to the benefits of proper lighting is defined in this thorough web site. In-depth information about the body's responsiveness to light, including how light affects organs and overall health. Light therapy safety, side effects and sources of illumination are noted. The benefits of light therapy to ease seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is also mentioned. Includes benefits of light therapy for assistance with jet lag, insomnia, bulimia and lupus.

Choosing the Right Lighting For Your Home
Decorating Country Home offers pointers for choosing the right lighting for your home by explaining the value of using the right bulb and incorporating chandeliers, pendant lighting, mini-pendant lighting, track lighting or ceiling fan lighting into your room's lighting design. Links to related articles on designer lighting and on revamping an old lamp also are provided.

Homelighting.com: Where the Professionals Go
Homelighting.com is an on-line magazine dedicated to the decorative lighting industry. Of particular interest may be the search engine which allows the visitor to locate lighting manufacturers, lighting parts suppliers, and stores, as well as shows, market centers and associations.