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Contemporary Lighting Tips
This informative site offers articles with information, ideas, and advice on a variety of lighting design topics including landscape and exterior lighting, low voltage lighting, ceiling fans, chandeliers, highlights, dimmers, interior lighting, art and architectural features. There are links to extensive articles and links to manufacturers of fixtures, lamps, and designs.

Tips For Bathroom Lighting
Learn how to mix general bathroom lighting with task lighting and accent lighting to truly highlight your bath in an article from RealtyTimes, which provides real estate news and advice. Included in the ten tips for bathroom lighting is the use of dimmers, table lamps, wall sconces and a decorative light fixture from the ceiling to enhance the space and use of your bath.

Good Lighting Should be Both Practical and Decorative
Lighting designers Shelia Bridges and Eric Cohler have teamed up to produce a website covering the beauty of lighting and how the proper lighting can affect mood in a positive way, while the wrong lighting design, or the wrong type of light bulbs can actual destroy one's inner peace. For example, they discuss the proper angle for track lights and ways to highlight crown moldings properly. They discuss lighting placement to break up the lines of a room and to show off details in the kitchen. They discuss the best kind of light for task lighting and the best way to accent pictures and add drama to a room. Chandeliers are discussed in-depth, including the proper size chandelier for a dining room and for a living room. If you are interested in light as a way to make a personal statement, then this site clearly has you covered.

Crafty Idea For Patio Lighting
AZCentral.com featured article from The Arizona Republic that offers a crafty idea for how-to decorative patio lighting.

Landscape Lighting
This site provides an introduction to artful landscape lighting, including light zones. Up-lighting accentuates shapes, while backlighting or silhouetting emphasizes the form of a tree or sculptural object. Shadowing uses a spotlight in front of plants that stand against or near a tall wall, and makes short plants appear longer. Grazing takes advantage of walls that have rugged, textured surfaces. Wall washing is similar to grazing but the light source should be farther from the wall and use a frosting diffuser. Also explains down lighting, moonlighting and path lighting. Sections on hidden sources, low-voltage outdoor lighting, and more tips from the pros including low-voltage, in-door switch, corrosion and power.