Q: I’m dealing with a concrete ceiling in a condominium. If I use LED recessed lighting, do I still have to drop a 6-inch soffit? Someone told me that LED cans take up less space than traditional ...

In the November of 2019, I wrote about a condominium project in San Francisco. It was called ‘Accent the Positive’. I talked about using accent lighting, one of the four functions of light, as a way ...

The simplest things can make or break the design of a room. You might have beautiful furniture, art and flooring, but if the ambience still feels off, lighting is the likely culprit. Light inside our ...

High ceilings add beauty and grandeur to a room but only if they're lit up well enough for you to see them. Unfortunately, high ceilings tend to suck up the light in the room like a black hole in the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... I had been away for a few days on business and knew I would come home to a house full of drama.I couldn’t wait. While I was out, a pair of electricians had ...

Decorating a room with high ceilings sounds like a dream, right? So much space and so much potential! But in reality, it's one of those things that looks easy on Pinterest but is deceptively tricky.

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