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Make It Personal with Justice Design Group

Make It Personal with Justice Design Group

Have you looked and looked for the exact finish, color or glass? Justice Design Group allows you to customize your chandelier or other lighting to get exactly the look you like. Color News: Make It Personal If you believe there’s no such thing as too much matchy-matchy, you’re in luck. Brands are now letting you…

New Monorail Kits from Tech Lighting
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New Monorail Kits from Tech Lighting

Monorail lighting is a great choice for many homes. If you are looking for a simple monorail layout, a monorail kit might work for you. These kits have all of the hardware you need for most basic layouts and include pendants or fixtures. Tech Lighting now has these great new kits! Tech Lighting’s 800RAL28 Monorail…

Take a Bow: Ribbons and Bows, Timeless Motifs
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Take a Bow: Ribbons and Bows, Timeless Motifs

Ribbons and bows are not just for little girl rooms. This motif is timeless and works in Antique Reproduction Styles like English Baroque, French Country Style, Queen Anne and Queen Anne Revival and Victorian Style. It is a natural with any Country Style. Traditional includes a wide range of period styles. These classic pieces are…

Miniature Track – NSL Brite Strip
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Miniature Track – NSL Brite Strip

NSL Brite Strip can be used as miniature track lighting. It is available in low voltage (12 volt or 24 volt). This smaller track may be used as Accent lighting Inside cabinets Over countertops Shelves Display cases Wall or ceiling cove lighting Task lighting Field cuttable strip has molded sockets that can hold two, three…

Tech Lighting Multi-Pendants and Pendant Clusters
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Tech Lighting Multi-Pendants and Pendant Clusters

Tech Lighting Line Voltage or Line/Low Voltage Multi-Pendants and Pendant Cluster Canopies Create custom chandeliers and multi-pendants with these canopies that can suspend up to 11 pendants, fixtures or both. Use Line voltage, Low voltage or a mix of Line and Low voltage pendants in a wide assortment of shapes, sizes and finishes. The possibilities…

In-wall NEC rated wire types and applications

In-wall NEC rated wire types and applications Low-voltage, in-wall rated wire comes in many forms that work together to create a versatile lighting system. CM Communications General Purpose Cable General Purpose cable is best suited for common areas – the open areas in which we live and work. So, when looking for in-wall wire for…

Pineapple Lighting
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Pineapple Lighting

Pineapple Lighting The pineapple has been a decorative motif for centuries. Charles II Presented with a Pineapple c.1675-80 “Charles II, wearing star of the Garter, stands on a terrace, his left hand on hip. To the left, a man, possibly John Rose, the royal gardener, kneels before him and presents him with what is said…

Ingenious Small Spaces
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Ingenious Small Spaces

This month’s issue of Traditional home’s cover promised Ingenious Small Spaces and did they deliver! So many pictures of small houses either look completely impractical, like living in a fussy doll house or a “she shed.” Or they go to the other extreme and look like semi-glorified campers. In the feature Southern Home – The…

Pendants – “Jewelry for the Room”
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Pendants – “Jewelry for the Room”

All Eyes on the Lights “Pendants over the counter or island are a beautiful place for your eye to linger when you’re looking into the kitchen. They also act as a decoy, drawing your eye up and away from the clutter! Group three together – a large pendant adds balance and drama. Think of it…

Glossary of Lighting Terms

Accent Lighting Light that aims at something. For example recessed lights that graze a wall or picture lighting. Ambient Lighting General overall lighting. Basic background lighting. Baffle Something that shields a light or directs it. Beam Spread The width of the light aiming out of a bulb. Contrast The difference between the color of something…