Light Innovations

Celebrating 200 Posts: Best of the Light Innovations Blog

2012-02-21T19:15:10Z

The Light Innovations Blog has hit another major mile marker in the blogging world: Our 200th post! So in honor of this accomplishment, we’re going to take a look at some of our blog’s most popular posts with our loyal readers! We’ve checked the official stats and found out which posts were the most read posts since we launched the Light Innovations Blog.

The Top 10 Posts on the Light Innovations Blog:

These posts were a big hit with our readers and are now even showing up on Pinterest! Tell us in a comment which post was your favorite or if you have spotted or even pinned one of our blog photos on Pinterest!

Award-Winning, Eco-Friendly Light Bulb Finder App

2012-02-18T19:54:42Z

Looking for energy efficient light bulbs? There’s an app for that! Recently announced in the January issue of Residential Lighting magazine, Light Bulb Finder is a brand new app that can help you find energy efficient light bulbs for existing fixtures based on usefulness, innovation and usability. Designed by EcoHatchery, the app was chosen by the EPA as the winner of the App for the Environment Challenge. As co-founder of EcoHatchery Adam Borut says, the app can even help you save money.

“Lighting is the easiest, fastest payback option for households to save money, so it’s really the gateway to energy efficiency for a lot of people . . . It helps people realize that energy efficiency is not the same as going organic — you get immediate savings.”

Little Rock residents can find new Energy Star labeled fixtures and energy efficient lighting options for any style interior design at Light Innovations. Browse the product catalog online or come by the showroom where we also have lighting specialists on hand to answer your energy and design questions.

Source: Residential Lighting
Image via lightbulbfinder.net

No. 1 Thing to Know About LED Landscape Lighting

2012-02-07T16:11:54Z

LED lighting is here to stay. With its energy efficiency, low maintenance, dimming capabilities, non-toxicity and cold weather resistance, LED is undoubtedly the ideal option for outdoor lighting. While we have all heard about the benefits of this energy-efficient option that is taking the lighting design world by storm, how much do we really know about using LED lighting?

With different qualities and levels of illumination, LED lighting needs to be applied differently than traditional landscape lighting. From Lanscapeforms Insite, here is the No.1 tip you need to know to achieve an effective and aesthetically appealing landscape lighting scheme.

Less is best!

A brighter landscape does not equal a better lighting scheme. The beauty of LED lighting is that you don’t need tons of fixtures to achieve the necessary illumination for functionality. This allows you to create more ambient scenes that result in a more enjoyable experience. Here is the fantastic explanation for this tip from Lanscapeforms Insite:

Because LED lighting is controllable, it is possible to design a more optimal system for a great visual experience . . . The goal of outdoor lighting should not be to turn night into day. Outdoor lighting occurs during a time when the receptors in your eyes are naturally adapting from photopoic vision to mesopic vision. Using moonlight as inspiration for a better solution, we believe that outdoor lighting should mimic the minimal glare, spectral color, and level of contrast naturally present at night.

Photo via Lanscapeforms Insite