Category: Illuminations USA News

Explaining Common Lighting Terms

Outdoor Lighting

When you’re shopping for new lighting fixtures for your home, it’s important to find the best fixtures that will reflect your taste in style and affordability. When exploring the different lighting options, you also want to be sure that the lighting you choose provides enough light to complement your surroundings. Often when you’re shopping for… Read more »

Celebrating Halloween With Spooktacular Light Displays

Celebrating Halloween With Spooktacular Light Displays

October is here, which means it’s time to head to your basement or garage and dig out your Halloween decorations. From gravestones and skeletons to spooky spider webs, there are so many ways to enhance your yard and front porch for the holiday. If you plan on spending an afternoon transforming your home into a… Read more »

Raise Your Property Value With Landscape Lighting

Garden Outdoor Lighting

There is a sense of pride that is associated with the aesthetic of your home. From clean siding to groomed landscapes, there are many aspects that go into making your house the best looking one on the block. There is a simple trick however that will benefit your home on many accounts – landscape lighting…. Read more »

Environmental Benefits of LED Light Bulbs

Fall is a great time to complete some home improvement projects before winter arrives. If you are in the process of installing landscape lighting outside of your home, consider doing using LED lights. Not only will it help your home and your yard look their best, but it will also provide you with a ton… Read more »

Benefits of Using Timed Architectural Lighting

Benefits of Using Timed Architectural Lighting

Have you ever come home after a night out and stumble up to your steps, or drop your keys because you couldn’t see your doorknob? These are common problems that can be easily resolved with architectural lighting. Architectural and landscape lighting are great ways to add beauty and security to your home or business. You… Read more »

Protecting Your Home While on Vacation

Protecting Your Home While on Vacation

Summer is peak season for vacations and traveling, which means more time leaving your home unattended. Whether you plan on being away from home for a few nights or you’re going on a month-long trip, there are a few things you can do to make sure your property is safe while you’re gone. If it… Read more »

How to Lower Your Home’s Energy Consumption

In today’s age, it is important to be mindful of your energy consumption and carbon footprint. Your carbon footprint is the total emissions that you individually cause. With the current state of our environment, now is the time to work on decreasing the amount of energy you consume. Here are some tips to help lower… Read more »

LED Bulbs Decreasing in Price

LEDs help the environment

It’s no secret as to why LED bulbs are more popular than ever; every year they decrease in price but don’t decrease in efficiency. That’s important. At this point, we can only expect them to continue to decrease in price making them more affordable and accessible to all members of society, from top to bottom…. Read more »

Safeco Field Is the Latest Baseball Park to Install LED Lights

Illumination USA - Outdoor Lighting

One of the major beneficiaries of LED lights is America’s sporting stadiums, including baseball parks, those legendary symbols of Americana. There are a number reasons why a baseball park would install LED lights, with number one being the energy costs. LED lights are considerably less expensive than older systems of lighting. However, they offer specific… Read more »

To the Light Bulb Victor Goes the Spoils

In the last post, we discussed LIGHTFAIR® International. The conference helps to guide the lighting industry, “light the path” so to speak, as we head into the future. The future, it seems, has already been decided; there is a winner in the light bulb wars. For the past few years, fluorescent, halogen and LED bulbs… Read more »