Home Lighting

Home Lighting Ideas from Sylvania
This section on Sylvania's site provides a lot of home lighting ideas for the spaces in your home, both indoors and outdoors: dining room lighting, living room lighting, bedroom lighting, powder room lighting, hallway and foyer lighting, bedroom lighting, kitchen lighting and outdoor lighting. Includes information about ambient lighting, task lighting, illuminating bookshelves, home security lighting, security lighting, translucent shades, halogen floor-mounted direction fixtures, and strip lights. Links to product information on Sylvania light bulbs and more tips for home lighting.

Home Office Lighting by Staples
Staples.com provides tips for home office lighting. Many home office workers spend a lot of their time working in front of their computers. If the area around your monitor is not well-lit, there will be a contrast between the bright computer screen and the darkness of the room, which will certainly create eye strain after awhile. To avoid this situation, try "washing" the wall behind your computer with a recessed "wall washer", a light fixture that looks like a regular light that would project light down the wall, but, says Doreen Lee May Madden, a lighting consultant "the optics, or reflectors, inside are designed to kick light out of the side instead of having it shoot straight down." Variations in the color of lighting can also create an attractive effect. Different types of bulbs provide different shades and colors of light. "An incandescent lamp... has a lot of yellow in it and a halogen lamp has more bluish white to it. By mixing different types of bulbs you'll achieve an effect that is more pleasing to the eye," states Madden.

Lightbulbs Then and Now
This article traces the history of the lightbulb from Thomas Alva Edison's first incandescent bulb to today's neon and other types of lights far beyond anything that even Thomas Edison envisioned. Today light bulbs have different wattages, they can be dimmed, and come in many different sizes and shapes. The uses for light bulbs has also expanded far beyond Edison's earliest dreams. Today light bulbs are used for everything from indoor and outdoor lighting, to garden lighting, and even special bulbs for light therapy, replicating daylight and elevating mood and emotional states. The recent development of E-on lighting even helps to reduce negative ions in the atmosphere. With all the different sizes and kinds of lightbulbs there are today, fidning the perfect bulb for the job can seem like an overwhelming task. This site also covers what to look for in a lightbulb retailer and has helpful suggestions on how to make your lightbulb decisions easier.

Lighting Study of Depression During Pregnancy
This site introduces you to a new and ongoing clinical trial which provides light treatments for depression during pregnancy at Yale University, Columbia University, and the University of Pittsburgh. The study is currently recruiting participants who would like to receive treatments at home in the area of the universities for depression during pregnancy.