Summer lighting can set the tone that compliments your interior home design or give the outside of your residence curb appeal. The professionals at Yale Lighting are there to help you decide on the perfect summer lighting scheme. Choose between cost-effective lighting options or upgrade your entire lighting system with sophisticated upscale illumination. The lighting choice is entirely up to you, but Yale Lighting makes your decision easier with hundreds of options to choose from. 

What Are The Best Summer Lighting Options

If you want to cast the perfect illumination on any area of your home, upgrading your lighting is one of the quickest and most cost-effective way to accomplish your purpose including your outdoor space. Keep reading more details below on great ideas to prepare for the summer with exceptional lighting options.

Task Fixtures. Some lighting in your home is doing all the work to brighten a particular area. Task fixtures allows you to dim the lighting and still focus on a particular area. You’re essentially reducing light levels meant for areas of ambiance. Task fixtures provide indirect lighting for the areas of your home that you want to give special attention to without casting overwhelming direct lighting on that area.

Chandelier. A chandelier adds a great lighting showpiece for your dining room, living-room, or kitchen. You can balance the lighting in either of these areas with a simple or elegant chandelier from Kichler Lighting. This will provide direct lighting over the area where your family and friends gather the most. Customers have the option of choosing bright lights or lesser lighting options like LED lights to add warmth, brighten the area, and add to meal time conversations.

Deck Lighting. Add lighting to show off the hard work you’ve put into your deck or maybe you just built a deck and want to add the right lighting for summer deck parties or BBQ’s. The best lighting options to choose from for your deck are solar deck lights or recessed lighting. Recessed lighting gives you the option of making your deck appear bigger because the lighting takes up less visual space. You’re able to cast lighting over the space on your deck that’s most important to you.

Why Choose Yale Lighting As Your Lighting Resource

Yale Lighting provides sleek and affordable lighting options that will provide illumination to any area of your home, including beautiful fixtures from Kichler Lighting. Our lighting coincides with your design goals for all of your indoor and outdoor lighting needs. We specialize in dramatic, extraordinary, and simple lighting that’s unmatched by our competitors. Our team of professionals is dedicated to putting the needs of our customers first and serving each customer with personalized attention. You’re invited to contact us at Yale Lighting for bright ideas on your summer lighting options.

Lighting can give every area of your home ambiance. Improved lighting isn’t just for better visibility, it can also enhance your decor. Choose from several lighting style types that best serves your needs with the help of a lighting professional like Yale Lighting Concepts that offers the best in lighting, including fixtures from WAC Lighting.. We understand how every space is different and requires basic lighting options. The following user-friendly guide focuses on closet lighting for any size closet space including the popular walk-in closet.

How Can Lighting From Yale Enhance Your Closet Space

Does your closet require ambient, task, or accent lighting? With enough closet space, you may require all three. What is the difference between the three basic closet lighting options. In fact, when is direct lighting appropriate for your closet? 

• Ambient

Closet ambient lighting is meant to provide complete illumination. This type of lighting provides even lighting for your closet space. In most areas of your home, it’s the initial lighting for any room or space and is perfect for any size closet. Ambient lighting provides the base lighting for your closet.

• Task

Task lighting directs specific light to a particular area in your closet. Customers use task lighting to better navigate their closet and/or match their clothes, shoes, and accessories. More importantly, it enhances luminescence to improve your closet visibility. You have clear lighting options very similar to direct lighting which is ideal for your closet space.

• Accent

Accent lighting provides lighting to specific objects in your closet. Accent lighting works well for specific pieces in a walk-in closet that customers what to showcase. If you’re interested in highlighting the best features in your closet, you would go with accent lighting.

Types Of Popular Bulb Lighting:

• LED
• Incandescent
• Fluorescent
• Halogen
• Colors

What Can Yale Lighting Do To Enhance Your Closet Space

Our professionals at Yale Lighting Concepts are focused on creating visibly warm space for your closet. We focus on lighting that’s inviting and aesthetically pleasing. Look at some fantastic options, especially lighting from WAC Lighting.. You’re invited to contact us for more closet lighting details today.

A den or family room typically means different things to different people. For some, it’s an area to relax and share time with other family members. For others, it’s a quieter place where they can relax and unwind after a stressful day. Still others view a den as their unofficial “man cave” where they can spend a coveted Saturday or Sunday afternoon watching their favorite sport.

There are several important components that make a den an ideal living space for certain activities. Of course, one of them r  elates to selecting all the right furniture pieces so everyone is ensured a comfortable seat. As you’ll also see, effective lighting components can help set just the right tone in a den by allowing family members as well as friends, to feel relaxed, comfortable, and ready to enjoy a game of cards or just each other’s company.

Creating the Right Atmosphere

Generally, a den or family room works best with multiple soft lighting fixtures. A glaring overhead ceiling light does little to help make a person feel relaxed, and it offers only sparse light for fun activities such as card playing, family games, and the like. Recessed light from our friends at Maxim Lighting is often a great choice for the den. It provides sufficient light to illuminate all the areas of the room, and the brightness level can be controlled with a dimmer option. A dimmer feature is a great choice for those who like to “dim the lights” before sitting down for a fun surround sound movie night.

Wall sconces are another great option that can help add soft lighting to the den, in addition to providing some decorative visual interest to the wall(s). For those who need additional lighting over a special chair, perhaps one set aside for reading or knitting, there are many gorgeous options of ceiling pendants that add both focused lighting, as well as great appeal to the overall décor.

Track lighting is an option for those who want to highlight sports memorabilia or other family treasures placed in the room. In addition, homeowners with built-in cabinetry in their den may want to consider fitting their upper cabinets with lighting features either inside or above. This is a great way to highlight a home library, family photos, and/or decorative artwork.

If you need help in creating the perfect atmosphere in your family room or den, please contact us and also check out our products by Maxim Lighting on display.

Chances are that you take pride in the appearance of your home and want to enjoy it as much as you can, even when the sun goes down. So, perhaps you are considering patio lighting. Adding lighting to your home’s patio can enhance safety by brightening walkways. It can also create dramatic looks and effects in your home.

Whatever the reason – amplifying the beauty of your home, creating a secure environment, or simply relaxing and entertaining – proper planning can help you get the most out of your patio lighting.

Use Different Types of Lighting

Consider a couple of different types of lighting to provide ambiance as well as safety. Accent lights are usually space saving and low voltage. They can be mounted on posts, railings, or steps that focus light downward, increasing visibility. Outdoor rated holiday lights or rope lights can be used on your deck year-round to create a relaxing atmosphere. Cast shadows on walls or other flat surfaces by placing lights in front of trees, fixtures, or sculptures. Accent lights placed at the base of a tree or in the ground can create a dramatic highlight.

How to Do It

Begin the planning process by sketching out your patio. Ideally, the best time to install lighting is while you are landscaping, but it can be added at any time. Keeping safety in mind, decide the amount of lighting that you want. At a minimum, you want to light steps and dark areas. Before purchasing lighting, try out some of your ideas at night with a flashlight. You will also see that you have ambient light coming from other sources that you should note. Consider a mix of standard voltage lighting for a brighter, more illuminated area and low voltage lighting for mood and accents. You might even want to try solar.

Don’t overdo it. Less is more. Lighting comes in all shapes and sizes – suspended, mounted on your home, under eaves, on poles, and in the ground. Do some research, and decide what works best for you. With the proper lighting, not only will you be able to maximize the use of your home and patio, you’ll be able to show it off – literally. Contact us to get started.

There’s a reason why security lighting packages are becoming so popular. As many hidden cameras have shown, drive-by thieves are sometimes incredibly bold, coming right up to a home’s front doorstep or garage area to prowl around for packages left behind by mail delivery or valuable items left outside. To ward off these types of invasions, many homeowners are turning to security packages that feature both smart cameras and smart lighting fixtures.

Prevention is Key

Of course, security cameras can do a great job of capturing important information if a theft does occur, but security lighting can help prevent a theft from happening in the first place. It’s no secret that would-be thieves are likely to move on to another target when they encounter a well-lit property. By being proactive and lighting up a home, either with motion-sensing lighting fixtures or security lights that come on automatically at dus k, homeowners can lower the risk of an unpleasant, and perhaps even dangerous scenario.

Security – Inside and Out

Security is not just for the outside of the home either. A good security light package will include mechanisms to provide indoor security lighting features that make it look as if the homeowners are present, regardless of whether they really are or not. As the summer months approach and homeowners begin to plan their summer vacations, they should ask themselves if they feel comfortable with the current security measures surrounding their home. If not, now is a great time to adding a comprehensive security plan that includes lighting up key parts of both the interior and exterior of the home.

Checking for Vulnerabilities

Homeowners should look for areas around the home where a thief could gain entrance or could have access to valuable items. Of course, a good security lighting package will include coverage for all entranceways into the home and garage, as well as any exterior building(s) such as a garden shed or barn. Large shrubbery that provides dark cover around vulnerable windows would be an ideal spot for adding some in-ground flood lights. On the surface, it may appear that in-ground lights are being used to highlight landscaping, but they serve an additional purpose by adding protection around vulnerable parts of the home.

If you would like to know more about how to protect your property with security lighting, please contact us.

Many homeowners put a significant amount of thought into the lighting they use in other parts of the home, perhaps adding a chandelier to make a grand statement for the entrance of the home, or installing overhead pendant lighting to illuminate a kitchen island. As an afterthought, they might use a standard overhead light, along with a lamp or two in the bedroom. However, there really is so much more homeowners can do with lighting fixtures to make a bedroom feel like a relaxing oasis at the end of the day, in addition to fulfilling some practical functions.

What’s your Style?

In order to set the right tone in the bedroom, it’s important to consider one’s perso  nal style. Using a favorite décor style will set a more positive and comfortable feeling in an area where people want to spend some relaxation time, rather than trying to adhere some strict decorating rule.

Of course, people typically admire a variety of different styles including contemporary, industrial, glamour styles, rustic, mid-century modern, coastal décor, and more. Fortunately, lighting options have come a long way in recent years. Whatever style a person is drawn to, there are lighting fixtures that will either match or blend with their particular style.

Where to Add Lighting

An overhead light fixture is the classic area to add “wow” factor to a bedroom. Some people like to add a touch of glam by installing a small chandelier overhead, whereas others want to create a relaxed beachy feeling by adding a lighting fixture with a ceiling fan. This latter choice of course, looks amazing in a room decorated with a Coastal/Hamptons feel.

To fulfill practical needs for illumination, some might want to add focused pendant lighting for a corner nook where they can read or knit. Others might want to consider adding a pair of sconces near the bed — great for reading before bedtime or to use while watching TV.

Contact us today to learn more about creating the perfect bedroom space in your home.

It won’t be long before the chilly temperatures and gray, cloudy days of the winter season will soon be forgotten. Springtime will arrive right on schedule and with the new season, many homeowners will turn their attention to their outdoor landscape. With all the effort that people will put into making their yards look beautiful in the upcoming season, it’s important to consider how the right lighting features can highlight all that hard work. Outdoor lighting also serves other important functions such as supporting security measures against nighttime prowlers, along with providing su  fficient illumination to keep homeowners from stumbling around in the dark and fumbling for their keys after they arrive home.

Illuminating Outdoor Features

Many homeowners use their backyard as a staycation throughout the spring and summer seasons. When families are too busy to get away from it all, it’s nice to know they can relax on their back porch or deck, invite friends over for dinner, and perhaps relax by the pool or hot tub. Of course, it’s important to have all the necessary lighting for these types of outdoor activities. Lighting manufacturers now offer spectacular options in wall sconces, and beautiful pendant lighting specially designed for the outdoors. Path and walkway lighting options offer features that serve not only to illuminate an evening stroll through the garden, but they themselves add a decorative note as well. Landscape flood lights are a great option for those who want to highlight a beautiful bed of flowers or a miniature decorative tree.

Adding Security to the Home

Adding security lighting features to key points around the home, including all entrance points, is a known deterrent for discouraging criminal behavior. Motion detector lighting not only can help prevent break-ins, it can also help discourage nighttime critters from foraging in the yard and digging up flowerbeds and vegetable gardens.

Personal Safety

It’s important for both family members and guests to have sufficient lighting as they traverse walkways and paths and other areas around the home. Fortunately, there are a multitude of lighting options available to ensure just that. There are in ground well lights that help illuminate walkways, deck rail lights, baluster lighting, post lighting, and much more. Even homeowners who don’t spend a lot of time outdoors in the evening, still appreciate having a clear path to entrances of their home, as well as an overhead light or wall sconces at every door so they don’t have to fish for their keys in the dark.

If you would like to know more about adding security, style, and safety features to your outdoor areas, please contact us!

In many homes, the kitchen area is often the main hub of the home. This area typically houses activities such as food preparation and cleanup, and often works as a gathering place where families can meet after work or school to discuss their day. Some kitchens may house a mini-office area where homeowners sit and work on a monthly budget, or children use as a place where they complete homework. The kitchen is probably the primary area in the home that requires multiple lighting sources in order to properly illuminate a variety of tasks.

Defining Function

When investing in lighting options for the kitchen, it is important to consider all the ways in which the area may be used. Most ho  meowners have counterspace either underneath overhead cupboards or on an island where they do most of their prep work for meals. Of course, it’s not uncommon for food preparation to require the use of sharp knives, and other equipment such as blenders and choppers that use sharp blades, so it is really important for these areas to have clear, focused lighting for potentially hazardous tasks.

Some kitchens need focused lighting for areas where homeowners have set up a mini-desk area for computer tasks, meal planning and budgeting. Countertops typically serve as food prep areas, but some may also play a dual role as a lunch counter, where family members can draw up a stool for a quick bite to eat. In some homes, parents may have set up a small play area in a corner of their kitchen so they can keep an eye on young toddlers while they prepare meals.

Lighting Options

Home lighting options have exploded in recent years and there really is a perfect lighting solution for every area of the kitchen. Recessed overhead lighting offers instant illumination throughout an entire kitchen area, much more so than a single overhead light. Where bright focused lighting is required, there are plenty of track lighting options to choose from, as well as pendant lighting. There are also lighting options that can be installed underneath cupboards to illuminate countertops used for food preparation. Mini-chandeliers can offer a touch of glamour and style to any kitchen, and pendant-style lighting looks spectacular over a kitchen island or lunch countertop. Some homeowners also like to add lighting strips inside glass cupboards or near ceiling height, to show off special kitchen décor, or just to add a soft glow during the evening hours.

If you would like more tips on how to select the perfect lighting options for your kitchen, please contact us!