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Fire-Rated Recessed Lights: When Required

Fire-Rated Recessed Lights: When Required

Every recessed light starts with a hole cut in the ceiling, and if that ceiling is a fire-rated assembly, the hole is a problem. A fire-resistant ceiling is designed to...

Fire-Rated Recessed Lights: When Required

Every recessed light starts with a hole cut in the ceiling, and if that ceiling is a fire-rated assembly, the hole is a problem. A fire-resistant ceiling is designed to...

Canless vs Can Recessed Lights Compared

Canless vs Can Recessed Lights Compared

Recessed lighting used to mean one thing: a bulky metal can set into the ceiling, fitted with a separate trim and a bulb. Then thin, integrated LED fixtures arrived, no...

Canless vs Can Recessed Lights Compared

Recessed lighting used to mean one thing: a bulky metal can set into the ceiling, fitted with a separate trim and a bulb. Then thin, integrated LED fixtures arrived, no...

How to Size a Chandelier for Any Room

How to Size a Chandelier for Any Room

A chandelier is the fixture people most often get wrong, and the mistake is almost always the same one: buying too small. A fixture that looked substantial in a showroom,...

How to Size a Chandelier for Any Room

A chandelier is the fixture people most often get wrong, and the mistake is almost always the same one: buying too small. A fixture that looked substantial in a showroom,...

Best Color Temperature for Commercial Spaces

Best Color Temperature for Commercial Spaces

In a commercial building, color temperature is a business decision as much as a design one. The right Kelvin value keeps office workers alert, makes retail merchandise look fresh, sets...

Best Color Temperature for Commercial Spaces

In a commercial building, color temperature is a business decision as much as a design one. The right Kelvin value keeps office workers alert, makes retail merchandise look fresh, sets...

How Many Recessed Lights Do I Need per Room?

How Many Recessed Lights Do I Need per Room?

Recessed lights, also called can lights or downlights, sit flush in the ceiling and give a room clean, even illumination without any visible fixture bulk. The trick is getting the...

How Many Recessed Lights Do I Need per Room?

Recessed lights, also called can lights or downlights, sit flush in the ceiling and give a room clean, even illumination without any visible fixture bulk. The trick is getting the...

Best Lighting for Parking Garages

Best Lighting for Parking Garages

Parking garages are one of the most demanding lighting environments in a commercial building, and one of the most commonly done badly. The lights run around the clock, the ceilings...

Best Lighting for Parking Garages

Parking garages are one of the most demanding lighting environments in a commercial building, and one of the most commonly done badly. The lights run around the clock, the ceilings...