What types of directional accent are available?
Directional accent lights are classified as either high voltage or low voltage. Both offer key benefits depending on where they are used. Commercial clients almost unanimously favor high voltage accent lighting systems because of their ability to support HID (High Intensity Discharge) fixtures. As it is especially necessary in many corporate facilities to use light as a unifying force between architecture and nature, brighter directional accent lights play a big role by clearly showcasing fountains, atrium's, walkways, and even lakes on larger commercial campuses.

Are low voltage lights just as good as high voltage lights?
In smaller areas they are not only just as good, but even better. The average residential lot requires more color and affect than high intensity luminosity. Private homeowners tend to prefer a low voltage system for this reason. Also, low voltage directional lights save money simply because they require less power to operate. Considering as well that many residences decorate extensively with gardens and pathways, low voltage offers a greater level of control over color and effect—two very key aspects to this science that cannot be emphasized enough. Many residential accent lighting fixtures also feature dimmable lights that can be altered to create mood as well as effect simply by raising or lowering the level of output.

How do I know which fixture to choose?
Weather conditions and atmospheric saline content should be foremost in your mind when you choose directional accent lighting fixtures. Aluminum is the most cost effective material for both homeowners and companies on a fixed budget. Plastic composite, copper, and brass fixtures are ideal for atmospheres, which contain high levels of salt, such as those, found along the American Gulf Coast. Selecting directional accent lights in this fashion makes it simple to develop an outdoor lighting system that keynotes all the important elements of a facility or yard. The only remaining determination to choose is that of light source itself.

Am I limited to one bulb type as my only source of light?
Not necessarily. It really depends more on the subject being illuminated and the wattage vs light output needed to properly accent that subject. First determine what matters most to you in your landscape, then use the guidelines below to choose your light source.

Fluorescent Lights
Fluorescent technology creates a stable, bright light that makes for an excellent floodlight for either emphasizing larger areas of the landscape or for security lighting around the perimeter of a property.

Halogen Lights
Halogens cast a slightly golden “aura” around the subject, making them ideal low voltage effect lights for pathways, atrium's, and gardens.

Incandescent Lights
Incandescent lights are ideal for decorative commercial and residential accent and directional lighting and can also operate on timers and dimmer switches for varied lighting effects.

Mercury Vapor Lights and Metal Halide Lights
Commercial clients should strongly consider lighting perimeters with these HID, or Intensity Discharge lights. They are extremely efficient in the amount of light they output versus the actual wattage required to produce that light. They are excellent for highlighting tree lines and keynote architectural characteristics of buildings.

Click here to study our online inventory for detailed product specifications on every light source and fixture we carry. You may also call 800-239-2939 for assistance or help selecting a fixture.

Impeccable living room lighting consists of layers of illumination carefully deployed to draw attention to walls, decorations, adjacent furnishings, and congruence with interior design. This is not as difficult as it sounds if you break down lighting the living room into simple matters of luminance level, color, and distribution, then choosing the appropriate fixture and knowing where to position it follows naturally almost as a logical matter of course.

Pay attention at all times to all furniture, bookshelves, and even fine art take when choosing RLLD living room lights, and avail yourself of our complimentary consultations if you feel you need a specialist’s help in developing your plan for installation.

What fixtures make for a good eclectic or avant-garde living room lighting design?
Compact fluorescent living room lights are ideal for both eclectic decorating and functional lighting in living rooms of any size. Their power energy efficiency is second only to LED, and new ballasting technology now makes it possible to install them on dimmer switches. Our fluorescent compacts feature geometric shapes of all kinds to counterbalance curvature of furniture and angle of the room. They are ideal for the avant-garde and eclectic in taste.

What fixtures work well on dimmer switches?
Contemporary living room lighting fixtures work very well with dimmer switches, and are often the best friend of the innovative and trendy living room lighting designer. This section of our inventory alone has over 400 fixtures from which to choose—and it continues to grow daily. Contemporary living room lighting also offers glare free task lighting and even decorative colored lighting to match any interior design theme conceivable.

What is the best light source for a living room in a large custom home?
Crystal lighting in a living room lends a sense of sophistication, classicism, and refinement that simply cannot be outdone. Not only do the fixtures themselves appear more ornamental and skillfully wrought, but the quality of light produced by crystal has a much more unique and vibrant quality to it as well. Crystal refracts light like a prism, casting it simultaneously in all directions at once. Our crystal living room lights feature hand craftsmanship that equals that of chandeliers, and clients looking to mount a pendant or chandelier as a centerpiece light in the living room may therefore want to consider decorating with a primarily crystal theme.

What type options do you have that will create an Art Deco look?
Rustic and iron living room lighting fixtures lend themselves well to any Art Deco, Spartan, or less-is-more approach to design. For smaller living rooms, consider hand-made, single light sconces to go along the walls. Light bars are another hot item to be found in this section. Hanging suspended from the ceiling, they make excellent keynotes above doorways leading to hallways and kitchens. Colored lights for the living room abound in this section as well; so decorators looking to add a frontier or colonial look to the environment have much to choose from in this category.

What do you have that is truly unique?
Transitional living room lighting, which, as its name suggests, represents the “middle ground” between classic and contemporary styles. For homes with unique floor plans, this often proves to be a preferred style because it brings tradition to the table reminiscent of larger custom homes and simultaneously adds elements of the innovative and futuristic. In this section, find up lights and down lights in fine glass work fixtures that create unique and varied patterns of lighting along walls, eclectic 3-D art, and modern furniture.

Contact Us to look in detail at our many living room lighting fixture options, and be sure to talk to a lighting designer by calling 1-800-239-2939 today.