A room-by-room guide for illuminating your home
Choosing proper lighting for one's home is an ongoing challenge for The Lighting Gallery's interior designer Amy Vetter and sales manager Debbie Maples.
Tips for creating illusions with mirrors
You can give any room in your home a quick, inexpensive update with the addition of a mirror, decorators say.
How to Buy a Better Lightbulb
Contrary to rumor, the incandescent lightbulb is not going away--at least not right away. New U.S. regulations, starting January 1, cap energy consumption of a roughly 1,600-lumen bulb (equivalent to a standard 100-watt incandescent bulb) at 72 watts--which means the workhorse of home lighting will have to become about 30 percent more efficient overnight. The law will expand in the next two ...
Watts up
How many electricity consumers does it take to change a light bulb?That one’s easy: all of them.Naperville’s Smart Grid Initiative isn’t the only current event affecting the way electrical power is used in the city. The way we buy, use and even dispose of light bulbs is changing, too.On New Year’s Day, the light-bulb business felt the first impact of the Energy Independence and Security Act ...
Changes in law makes way for energy-efficient light bulbs
How many electricity consumers does it take to change a light bulb?That one’s easy: all of them.Naperville’s Smart Grid Initiative isn’t the only current event affecting the way electrical power is used in the city. The way we buy, use and even dispose of light bulbs is changing, too.On New Year’s Day, the light-bulb business felt the first impact of the Energy Independence and Security Act ...
