Modern Outdoor Lights
Modern design isn’t what it was years ago. Previously, a home that was described as modern referred strictly to its looks. It had modern lines or a modern look to it. It had all the features you’d expect. Very little (if any) thought was given to efficiency. In our time of global warming, modern homes are starting to take on a much more environmentally friendly and environmentally conscientious approach. Modern homes still have the cool lines and look they’ve always had, however they now use the most energy efficient designs, appliances and features. This only makes sense as not a day goes by that we don’t hear about the destruction we’re heaping on our poor planet. Does your modern home have what it takes to be modern in this day and age? Let’s take a look…
You designed your home to be a bold statement of who you are. No detail was overlooked. Or was it? In many instances, the outdoor lights chosen for a home were almost an afterthought. ‘Oh, yeah, code requires that we put some exterior lighting in. Let’s see what’s available at the local lighting store’. If this describes your home building experience, you know how limiting that can be. Most lighting showrooms focus on interior lighting. The outdoor lights that they display are what everybody is buying. Face it, display space is expensive. No lighting store is going to be able to display everything under the sun. So, what do they do, they pick what’s been popular. Which is very likely the same as what was popular last year (since they can’t know what people will buy if they don’t display it in the first place).
Starry Night Lights offers a huge selection of night sky friendly outdoor lights for your home or business. Building something on the modern side? We have a large selection of modern outdoor lights that are as distinctive as the homes they’ll adorn. Checkout the SPJ 601-DL from SPJ Lighting. This distinctively modern outdoor light fixture is hand crafter from stainless steel for years of service. It has a closed top (hence the ‘DL’ designation) so no light will shine wastefully up into the night sky while it’s solid sides ensure that you won’t be keeping your neighbors awake at night. Night sky and neighbor friendly are two requirements that most nicer communities have or will soon be adding to their outdoor lighting codes. Even if yours doesn’t yet have one, wouldn’t it be better to make more efficient use of the light your producing? Of course, it would.
The downward facing nature of this and many other fixtures offered by Starry Night Lights is an ideal candidate for the directional light produced by LED light bulbs. LED’s can be aimed. They emit the vast majority of the light they produce in the direction the are pointed. Since this fixture ‘aims’ the light down, LED lights work quite well with this fixture to illuminate the ground beneath them (which is where you need the light in the first place). They’ll also cooperate in efforts to reduce light spill into areas that should not be lit (like the night sky or your neighbor’s bedroom).
Modern living has some new requirements that earlier generations rarely if ever had to think of. Energy efficient light bulbs are an easy to meet some of these new ‘lifestyle guidelines’. These will consume far less energy thereby generating far less global warming / green house gases. They’ll also save you a considerable sum of money over their life spans. Energy efficient is typically a win-win situation.
This entry was posted on Monday, December 3rd, 2007 at 2:43 pm and is filed under Fluorescent Lighting, LED Light Bulbs, Outdoor Lighting, Stainless Steel Lights, Starry Night Lights, environment, neighbor friendly lighting. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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