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Show Room Style: Lighting Wall Art So, you’ve managed to take the plunge and dive headfirst into art collecting. Congrats! It’s a pretty great hobby and investment, or at least that’s what people always say it is. Right? Anyway, the trick with art is the all-important...

Looking Forward: Commercial Lighting Trends for the Future While we like to talk a lot about the value of good lighting in the home, there’s still plenty of space out there to talk about the value of a quality commercial lighting solution.  Audio Visual (AV) companies...

Light Up The Grill with These Backyard Lighting Tips Lighting for the outdoors is a surprisingly tricky task because it’s often a question of balancing security with utility. Not to mention the fact that most outdoor lighting has to brave a whole slew of different...

Pendant Lighting: Tips For the Kitchen Let’s all be honest here for a second. There has to be more to kitchen lighting than simple downlights, right? I mean, everybody seems to have them, and they’ve been “on trend” for what feels like the past twenty years.  Oh,...

Light and Health: Investigating the Benefits It goes without saying that lighting has a significant effect on our lives. We’re creatures designed to operate in daylight, so it makes sense that how we organize our lives is largely dependent on what time of the day it...

It should come as no surprise that the world of lighting has a few funny aspects to it. Often we talk about lighting fixtures and shades as though they are the most important aspects of light. In many ways, they are. But a lot of what makes a light a light really...

A Little Revolution: Lighting for a Tiny Home The “tiny home” movement has gone far beyond being just a trend. In a world of mass-market consumerism and an ever-growing appetite for the biggest and latest devices, the tiny home movement has moved away from that idea...

Home Lighting Trends for 2021 With the rise of remote work amid the COVID-19 Pandemic, homeowners become increasingly concerned with their own homes. As a result, the increase in home modification in the past year has risen dramatically. Home Lighting is often where...

Caffeine Fix: Lighting for Coffee Shops Coffee is more than just a drink in the US; it’s a way of life. From the west coast to the east, coffee is consumed by Americans to such a degree you’d think we were running out.  In fact, the opposite is true, with coffee in...

Galvanized Steel: A Deep Dive One of the options we have for treating our lights at Steel Lighting Co. is a process known as “Galvanized Steel.” For the most part, it’s a similar alternative to powder-coating and provides a level of protection to the steel that would...

Lighting for the Laundry Room Recently, we’ve spoken a lot in our blogs about creating the proper lighting setup for a variety of different rooms and spaces, both in the home and business. However, there’s still one room in the house that hasn’t quite gotten the...