Do you have a buzz or hum? Here’s how to track it down and get rid of it. I want control over my light levels and I love dimmers. I have them all over the house. But one problem with dimmers can be buzz. Even if the buzz doesn’t sound like it comes from the…
I overheard a couple in a lighting store super offended about an antler chandelier. It wasn’t even natural antler, it was made from cast resin. They thought that deer had died to make the chandelier.* They compared it to killing elephants for the ivory. No, deer do not die to make chandeliers. Deer shed their…
Did you know that you can buy handmade lighting from all over the world on Amazon? I just found DEZAART handmade wood lighting. It is really cool natural wood that looks like the Modern style lighting from the Modernage Furniture store in Oakland Park Florida. DEZAART Design Workshop from Greece in Agrinio, Greece Combining industrial…
We just got some Adirondack chairs and a fire pit to enjoy in back of our new house. Nothing as ambitious as this outdoor fireplace, but I want to do something a little more than the chairs on the grass we have now. This time of year it stays light really late, but when it…
Repurposed old glass insulators are all over Etsy. People turn them into candle holders and book ends. I have about a dozen of them that I put over inexpensive solar lights. They mostly block both the light and the solar panel, but I don’t care. A number of lighting manufacturers make lighting collections that use…
Our power went out last night. I was reading the Kichler Landscape Lighting catalog that is to the trade and decided to share some of the information. Bring it all together. With the right combination of exterior lighting, you can bring outdoor spaces to life. Achieve this look by incorporating integrated LED landscape lighting with…
LBL LED Illuminated Monorail System LED Illuminated Monorail Hand-bendable Monorail with a fiber-optic band of colored LED light. State-of-the-art LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes) brilliantly illuminate through fiber optic cabling that runs through the center of LBL’s Monorail. Simply plug in a single-ended LED generator at the ends of the Monorail and you have a brilliant,…
One of the little knobs that switches the light on in our log cabin got gone. I took one from the house to replace it. (The log cabin is overnight cabin rental right now.) I swiped the knob from a lamp we don’t use very often. But, not very often is not never and I…
I found beautiful porcelain bowl pendants. They have a white body with a traditional cobalt blue pattern hand painted on. The socket set is wood and it has a wood canopy. They are suspended from cord. They are 12.5″ wide with a 60″ cord. The cord can be adjusted when the light is installed to…
Cable Lighting may look complicated, but it is actually very simple. It is all the options that might get confusing. The simplest thing to do is to start with a kit. The Tiella Accent 5-Light Cable Kit includes 5 lights and their bulbs, a 100 watt surface transformer that covers a junction box like you…
