Tyler Macdonald

What is Layered Lighting? Transform Your Home with Style and Functionality

Layered lighting reimagines how you illuminate your space. Any light or set of lights that are controlled together is a lighting layer. For example, a kitchen may have a primary light and an under-cabinet light. Each lighting zone is controlled individually as its own layer. However, lighting layers don’t have to be exclusively functional. Harmoniously …

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Ketra D2: An Evolution in Premium Residential Lighting

Fixtures / By Tyler Macdonald

Ketra is regularly found pushing the boundaries with residential lighting. It’s already set the benchmark with its tunable light, precise 0.1% dimming and high color accuracy over various color temperatures. However, Lutron is bringing Ketra to another level with the D2. Taking Aesthetics To A New Level D2 takes everything we love about the recessed …

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An Inside Look at Philips Hue: Smart Lighting Benefits and Limitations

Fixtures, Lighting Control / By Tyler Macdonald

Embedded Fixture Control Systems like Philips Hue are fixture-based. This means that the smart functionality only works in areas where you install Philips Hue fixtures or bulbs. They sell about 300 different fixtures for the inside and outside of the home. However, if you don’t like the fixtures for some parts of your home, the …

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Color Accurate Fixtures: How It’s Measured and Why It Matters

Fixtures / By Tyler Macdonald

In the world of lighting design, the importance of color accuracy cannot be overstated. From enhancing the ambiance of your home to ensuring accurate representation of your artwork, color accuracy is paramount. In this article, we delve into the intricacies of color-accurate fixtures and explore how they are measured. How Color Accuracy Affects The Appearance …

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What’s the Difference Between Flush Mount, Mud-In and Bezel Light Fixtures?

Fixtures / By Tyler Macdonald

It can be difficult to wrap your mind around the difference in light mounting styles. There are so many variables that differentiate one light fixture from another that it’s easy to get lost in all the terminology. There are a couple of primary styles for mounting your light fixtures: Flush mount and bezel. In this …

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Your Guide to Residential LED Lighting

Fixtures / By Tyler Macdonald

LED home lighting has become the new fixture of choice for residential lighting. They offer a number of benefits over traditional lighting. As people renovate and build their homes, questions about the safety, appropriate usage, and efficiency of LED lighting begin to surface. If you’re new to LED lighting, this comprehensive guide aims to address …

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How Performance Lighting Can Improve Your Home Life

Fixtures / By Tyler Macdonald

It’s easy to get tempted by cheap fixtures when looking at light fixtures. All you need is some light in your home; who cares if it’s $30 or $130? Trust us, we wish it was that easy too. There are numerous benefits to picking performance LED lighting for your home over budget LED lighting. This …

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Exploring Wall Lighting Techniques: Wall Washing, Scalloping, and Grazing

Design Elements / By Tyler Macdonald

Lighting a wall is an easy way to make a space feel big and spacious and eliminate that creepy “cave effect” a home can have with dark walls. However, there are a few different techniques you can use to illuminate your wall to give it a unique aesthetic. In this article, we’ll review the three …

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Do You Need To Aim And Focus Your Lighting?

Design Elements / By Tyler Macdonald

As you customize your home lighting plan, you may come across the terms aiming and focusing. But does it even matter for your home? Does your recessed lighting need to be aimed or focused? The good news is that not all lighting needs such precision. For example, ambient lighting rarely needs to be adjustable. However, …

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How CRI Affects Interior Lighting and Your Space

Design Elements / By Tyler Macdonald

Home lighting is more complicated than you’d think. There are over a dozen different parameters to each recessed lighting fixture in your home. There are multiple designs, beam styles, colors and bezels. So, among all these lighting specs, what is CRI? What is CRI? CRI stands for Color Rendering Index. The CRI rating dictates how …

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What is Layered Lighting? Transform Your Home with Style and Functionality

Ketra D2: An Evolution in Premium Residential Lighting

An Inside Look at Philips Hue: Smart Lighting Benefits and Limitations

Color Accurate Fixtures: How It’s Measured and Why It Matters

What’s the Difference Between Flush Mount, Mud-In and Bezel Light Fixtures?

Your Guide to Residential LED Lighting

How Performance Lighting Can Improve Your Home Life

Exploring Wall Lighting Techniques: Wall Washing, Scalloping, and Grazing

Do You Need To Aim And Focus Your Lighting?

How CRI Affects Interior Lighting and Your Space

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