For Outdoor and Indoor Home Lighting

Home Lighting Tips
This article overviews lighting basics, including task lighting, accent lighting and general lighting. Includes tips about how to choose the right lighting for homes, light placement, and measuring lights. Instructions for installing chandeliers is also included.

Seasonal Depression and Light Therapy
This article discusses the pineal gland and biological clocks as well as the use of light to combat seasonal depression. Light exposure and light therapy is used regularly to treat sleep disorders and can also help the effects of jet lag and changes in shift work schedules. Depending on the light intensity, as little as half an hour each day causes the worst of the symptoms to pass, the author says. The mood lifts, and energy returns. Again, it is light through the eyes which matters. Some studies, but not all, show that patients with SAD have a less pronounced cycle of melatonin secretion than people without SAD, and light therapy appears to restore a normal pattern.

Lighting Tips for Specific Rooms
A collection of lighting tips including sections on lighting for bathrooms, kitchens, trade show exhibits, dining rooms, and general home lighting. Tips for light dimmers, fluorescent lighting in the home including electronic ballasts and low temperature light sources, low-voltage halogen lighting, indirect lighting, pendants, track lighting, under cabinet lighting and xenon lighting. Sections on lighting for the aging and the health issues associated with lighting are also included.

Residential Lighting Magazine
Residential lighting is a magazine packed with ideas for lighting, product information and more. Site includes market news, articles on medieval lighting, fixture lighting, track pendants, bath fixtures and recessed lighting. Upcoming features including crystal chandeliers and other decorative accessories. Includes a section on trade show calendars, accessory merchants and a lighting product directory.

A Glossary of Lighting Terms
This is a site with a glossary of lighting terms, provided alphabetically. Just click on a letter and get explanations and information on lighting terms such as dimmers, task lighting, track lighting, recessed lighting, fluorescent, halogen, incandescent, flood lighting, chandeliers, low voltage lighting, sconces, types of fixtures, bulbs, lamps, etc.