There are three main types of lighting that need to be considered as you plan the lighting in your home:
General Lighting provides an area with overall illumination. This is also known as ambient lighting. General lighting is basic form of lighting that replaces sunlight and enables one to see and walk about safely at night. By radiating light at a comfortable level of brightness, general lighting is fundamental to a lighting plan. This can be accomplished with chandeliers, ceiling or wall-mounted fixtures, recessed or track lights, and with lanterns outside your home.
Task lighting helps you perform specific tasks such as reading, sewing, cooking, homework, hobbies, games, or balancing your checkbook. Task lighting should be free of distracting glare and shadows and should be bright enough to prevent eyestrain. It can be provided by recessed and track lighting, pendant lighting, and portable lamps.
Accent Lighting adds drama to a room by creating visual interest. As part of a decorating scheme it is used to spotlight paintings, houseplants, sculpture, and other prized possessions. It can even be used to highlight the texture of a wall, drapery or outdoor landscaping. Accent lighting requires at least three times as much light on the focal point than the general lighting around it. This usually is provided by track, recessed, or wall-mounted fixtures.
As always we at Starry Night Lights can help you with any of your lighting needs
Give your home a ‘face-lift’ change your lights! There are so many styles and forms of lighting today that finding the exact lighting that you want is easy. Find your indoor and outdoor lighting at Starry Night Lights, the night sky friendly lighting specialists.
Serve as an excellent way to draw attention to a wall or highlite an area. All wall scones sold by Starry Night Lights shine light downwards or on the area which needs to be lit and not into neighbors homes. They come in various styles such as; copper, aluminum, brass, ceramic and stainless steel and also in many different finishes.
Lanterns are an interesting outdoor form of lighting which are both appealing and functional. All the outdoor wall lanterns which can be found at Starry Night Lights are night sky friendly and can be easily placed at the most desirous location. Starry Night Lights lanterns come in many different shapes, sizes and patterns.
Pendant lights are great! They are a lot of fun, they come in many interesting forms with many interesting colors. They also really bring a presence to a room and area.
All forms of landscape lighting which can be found at Starry Night Lights are both neighbor and night friendly. They are designed to be both attractive and durable. Landscape Lighting is an excellent way to light your walkway, or specific areas of your yard. This way you may light the areas you seek to have lit, and not over due the amount of lighting you need.
What’s great about architectural lighting is that not only is it an excellent source of outdoor lighting, but it also allows people to move around safely and securely without worry. Architectural lighting serves as a wonderful to get a good amount of light, while also respecting neighbors and the environment.
These lights and many other great and fun types of lights can be found at Starry Night Lights. And all the lights that can be found at Starry Night Lights are guaranteed to be both neighbor and night friendly!
Starry Night Lights works hard to ensure that one can choose, both interesting and economically friendly lighting. It is our hope that individuals will consider the negative consequences that certain lighting options have on the environment and will instead pick responsible options when lighting their homes. In order to give our customers as many options as possible, we offer many forms of lighting from many different brands. These brands include: GlareBuster, Justice Design, LSI Lighting Solutions, Sea Gull Lighting, as well as:
For all the brands sold by Starry Night Lights please go to the ‘lighting by brand’ section on our webpage.
New and modern forms of lighting are one of the greatest and cheapest ways to give your home a ‘face-lift’. Interesting lighting serves as an excellent way to draw attention to your home, porch and garden. Also, with products purchased from Starry Night Lights, you are receiving efficient and sky friendly lighting. As a result, feel free to ‘lighten-up’ your home with Starry Night Lights forms of lighting and be guaranteed both cool and environmentally safe lighting.
Your shadow will follow you anywhere but into a dark room. But as it follows you into your favorite, well-lit room, your shadow (and the overall shadow of the room) doesn’t have to be so present. Direct light, that is, light straight from the light bulb, will cast distinct, definite shadow. Ambient light, on the other hand, softens the edges of shadow, and if the lighting is even enough and ambient enough, shadow disappears almost entirely, considerably softening the mood and atmosphere of that favorite room.
Justice Design Group offers a thorough line of indoor lighting fixtures built around this principle: ambient light will warm a room, not heat it. The large wall sconce pictured scatters light evenly, as opposed to flooding its surroundings with direct, shadow-casting glare. The warmth of the light generated by the fixtures in the Ambiance Collection works with existing color to create a glow in the atmosphere of your indoor space. A room becomes more comfortable as it is surrounded and filled with light.
The Large Ceramic Wall Sconce from the Ambiance Collection is easy on the eyes in two ways: it keeps the lighting warm and soft, and the sconce itself is styled to fit just as well into your room, whether the lights are on or off. By allowing the light to be diffused through the ceramic body, and bounced and spread across the wall, the entire wall becomes your light, not just the bulb. Offered in a variety of finishes, this sconce can also be ordered in the pictured ceramic bisque, which well receives stains, paints and other finishes to be matched to the interior design scheme of your living space. For more information on this sconce, other light fixtures from the Ambience Collection by Justice Design Group, or products from a host of other vendors, check out StarryNightLights.com.
Virtually every house in the country has exterior light fixtures at the doors and/or garage. Typically, very little thought goes into their selection. Builders and contractors have so many decisions to make in the process of building a home that the exterior lights are often chosen on a basis of price and availability. So, if a fixture is cheap and in-stock at the electrical supply house, its likely to be installed on your home. This makes lots of sense from the contractors point of view, but is absolutely silly from the homeowners perspective. The lights on the exterior of your home will be often be seen by an incredibly large number of passersby. If you leave your lights on at night (you don’t, do you), an even larger number of people can see these as light travels great distances with ease. If you’d like the night time look of your home to be as warm and inviting as you are, an upgrade of your outdoor lights just might do the trick.
Residential lights come in a wide variety of shapes, sizes and colors. The only ones you should even consider are the night sky friendly ones. Non-friendly fixtures should be banned from production…. just as many communities have banned their installation. Night sky friendly lights (as a refresher) put light on the ground where its needed to allow you to move about safely after dark. They don’t shine wastefully up into the night sky or thoughtlessly across property lines. These are two places where residential lights definitely don’t belong. Night sky friendly lights are generally classified as full cutoff fixtures. Don’t let this technical term scare you. It simply means that no light shines above the horizontal position. You can vary the throw or distance that a fixture casts light by varying the angle at which the light come out… or by varying the mounting height of the fixture. There is no need to light to the end of your property… or even to the end of your driveway. Cars have headlights. They can easily navigate the end of your driveway. Its when people get out of the car (typically near the house) that light becomes a requirement. Aim to light this area… and this area only and you’ll save money… save the environment… and make your neighbors much happier.
So, you’ve decided to choose some nice, sky friendly fixtures. Wonderful! Now, where do you start. At this point, its more of a personal preference. The look and materials used on the exterior of your home can offer suggestions… as can the surrounding environment. Natural materials like wood and stone often work well with metallic fixtures like brass, copper, aluminum or steel. Adobe or stucco homes very often combine nicely with ceramic fixtures. Pictured above is the JDG-1300W from the Justice Design Group. The fixture is shown in “unfinished bisque” but is available in dozens of really beautiful finishes.
Dry climates are easy. Everything (except people) holds up well when its dry. Damp, salt climates, like those found in coastal area are much tougher. You’ll definitely want to make use of a durable material. Again, brass, copper and ceramics are virtually unaffected by mother nature.
Starry Night Lights is excited to announce the addition of the CandleAria Collection from the Justice Design Group. Offering the rich golden glow of candles with a contemporary style. All of these fixtures come with candle-like shades that will add considerable light, warmth and charm to any room. The Dakota grouping of fixtures is also available with a choice of flat rim or melted rim shades. This collection of fixtures is available in four metal finishes.
Justice Design is the undisputed leader in the ceramic decorative lighting category with one of the finest reputations in the industry. Their ceramic light fixtures are cast by hand, carefully inspected, and individually hand finished to insure satisfaction. From concept to order fulfillment, Justice Design offers uncompromised attention to detail, coupled with unparalleled service.
Starry Night Lights offers a wide selection of attractive ceramic light fixtures from the Justice Design Group
