Decorative Home Lighting

Decorative home lighting effectively combines style with function, accomplishing the all-important task of illumination, while simultaneously complementing a room's decor. Today's homeowners are taking advantage of the wide variety of table and floor lamps, chandeliers, pendants, and wall sconces available to add flair to their homes. Carefully chosen, decorative lighting is an effective way to illustrate the decorator's personality and set nearly any kind of tone.

The variety of materials used in the construction of light fixtures is amazing. You'll find everything from traditional brass to hardwood fixtures. Finishes offer as much variation, ranging from brushed and satin to bronze and brown finishes.

For traditional rooms, copper, brass, and crystal fixtures work well. Pressed glass, frosted glass, and painted china fixtures go a long way toward complementing a Victorian room, while bronze, cast iron, stone, and rust-finish metal fixtures are well used in an Old-World-style room. Track and recessed lighting is good for a minimalist look. This type of fixture also works well in a high-tech environment.

It is important to remember when choosing decorative home lighting that there are no hard and fast rules when it comes to selecting fixture styles. Today, it is considered perfectly acceptable to match opposing styles to create an interesting and surprising complementary look. What is important, however, is to choose the best-quality fixtures you can afford. Doing so not only beautifies your surroundings, but also helps to increase the value of your property. For high-quality lighting in all the latest styles, visit ALA-member, Lighting4sale’s showroom.

Celebrate Earth Day with Decorative Energy Star Lighting Fixtures

April 22 is Earth Day. Changing the earth starts with simple actions.

When you replace light bulbs or entire light fixtures in your home with ones that have earned the government’s ENERGY STAR, you help preserve energy resources while saving money and time buying and changing lighting fixtures in your home.

ENERGY STAR qualified lighting provides bright, warm light but uses at least 2/3 less energy than standard lighting, generates 70 percent less heat, and lasts up to 10 times longer.

To save the most energy and money, replace your highest used fixtures with energy-efficient models. The five highest use fixtures in a home are typically the kitchen ceiling lights and pendants, the living room wall sconces, bathroom vanity, and outdoor porch or post lamp.

The smallest things can add up to a real difference. We encourage you to change out the light fixtures at home that you use most with ENERGY STAR qualified models. If every American home changed out just five high-use light fixtures with ones that have earned the ENERGY STAR, each family would save about $60 every year in energy costs, and together we’d save about $6.5 billion each year in energy costs and prevent greenhouse gases equivalent to the emissions from more than 8 million cars.

FACT: The energy used in the average home can be responsible for more than twice the greenhouse gas emissions of the average car. When you use less energy at home, you reduce greenhouse gas emissions from power plants and help protect our environment from the risks of global climate change.

Buy Energy Star Lighting Fixtures and participate in the Celebration of Earth Day.

Ceiling Light Fixtures

Ceiling light fixtures provide good general illumination, often referred to as ambient lighting. In essence, ambient lighting provides a minimal amount of brightness, enabling people to move around and see each other easier. A ceiling light fixture can provide the finishing touch to any room and can be used in virtually any location from the living room and bathroom to the stairway and hall.

Flush-mount ceiling light fixtures are a popular choice for overhead, widely distributed lighting. Flush-mounts work especially well in kitchens, bedrooms, hallways and foyers. They are also good for use in areas in which ceilings are lower, making chandeliers and hanging fixtures impractical.

Semi-flush light fixtures offer the appeal of being mid-way between flush and hanging fixtures. Semi-flush lamps do hang from the ceiling, but only by a small amount. This type of light fixture works well in the same locations as flush-mounts and provides dispersed lighting from above, in addition to good indirect brightening.

Chandeliers, pendants, and other hanging lights provide both good general illumination and more focused lighting for specific areas, like dining room tables. Whether you choose flush-mount, semi-flush, or hanging lights, you'll be amazed by the array of styles and colors to suit all decorating themes, from traditional to retro and everything in between. Quality lighting can last a lifetime, both enhancing your decorating style and increasing property values. To ensure you get the best-quality light fixtures for your home, visit Lighting4sale.com, an American Lighting Association member lighting showroom.

Eclectic Lighting

Eclectic lighting takes an artistic approach to the broadest spectrums of all lighting styles and influences from all over the world. Crystals, hand-blown Murano Glass, Olde World Irons make these mysterious conversation pieces a treasure chest wrapped in soft and hard contrasting fabrics exploding with art.

Casual Lighting

If simple scrolling lines, antique style shades and rustic elegance are your flavors then Casual Lighting just may be your cup.

Casual Lighting is generally neither contemporary nor traditional but leans more towards a modern rustic.

Casual Lighting evokes a salute to Blacksmiths and Architects but at the same time celebrates smooth alabaster, ceramics and porcelains; A wide range of handsome and uncomplicated beauty.

Traditional Lighting

Anyone looking to make their living space more hospitable and inviting, Traditional Lighting is the perfect style. Fixtures of this appearance tend to tell a story all their own and thus add to the mood already present in any space.

Traditional Lighting is thought to be more of a decorative style than practical. While Contemporary Lighting tries to blend into the home, Traditional Lighting stands out as something to behold in its own right.

Traditional Lighting tends to have elaborate globes, shades and candlesticks. If you’re looking for a warm, timeless feel, Traditional Lighting is for you.

Rustic Lighting

Rustic lighting fixtures bring to the mind images of antlers, trees, fish, forged iron and the old west. Rustic Lighting can enhance the décor of your cabin, country cottage or farmhouse. A fine-looking rustic lighting fixture in a home lends a warm soft glow for any space.

Some other popular rustic lighting themes might include a wagon wheel chandelier with rawhide or leather lamp shades or a bear scene featuring a mother bear walking in the forest followed by her cubs. Rustic Lighting fixtures on which these scenes are often depicted typically feature forged iron against a glowing mica shade.

Bathroom Vanity Lighting

Lighting the bathroom vanity is especially important because it has a dramatic effect on how you see yourself. Tasks like applying makeup, shaving, and styling hair are much harder to accomplish with a poorly lit vanity. In this area, good color-rendering lights are necessary to enable you to see yourself in a natural light while reducing shadows on your face.

When it comes to bathroom vanity lighting, overhead lights are simply not good enough. When light shines only from above, you will see unsightly dark shadows under your eyes and the texture of your skin will be accentuated. Frontal lighting is necessary to reduce both contrast and shadows.

Sconces, typically one on each side of the mirror, provide even lighting for both sides of your face. A row of vanity lights across the top of the mirror can be used with wall sconces to provide good, even lighting and give your bathroom vanity a coordinated look. You could even place theatrical lighting strips around your vanity mirror to see yourself the way the stars do. In addition to lighting for the vanity mirror, good general lighting is of maximum importance. A ceiling fixture is a good idea for general lighting. For extra warmth on frosty mornings, consider adding a recessed infrared heat lamp as well.

Bathroom vanity lighting doesn't have to be boring. Today, you can light your bathroom vanity with wall sconces and bathroom bars in an amazing range of styles, with settings ranging from Venetian bronze to brushed nickel. Likewise, ceiling fixtures offer excellent variety too, allowing your bathroom decor to be as unique and personally yours as any area of your home. Ensure you get the best-quality light fixtures for your home. Visit, ALA Member, Lighting4sale's showroom for lighting that is stylish, high quality, and made to last.

Transitional Lighting

The effortless curves and solid foundation of the fixtures of the Transitional Lighting style make it an attractive choice with designers these days.

Unifying the smooth, flowing lines of the Contemporary Style with the embellishment of the Classic Style, Transitional Lighting has become the all-encompassing buzzword to describe and sell fixtures that don’t fit conveniently into any formal design style.

Those wanting a “cheerful feel” in their homes typically choose the Transitional Style as it has a warmer feel than the Contemporary Style but not quite as ceremonious as the Traditional Style.