At a Lowe’s in Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood on a Wednesday night this spring, around 50 interior design bloggers and influencers gathered for light bites and insight on lighting design from ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Terri Williams is a journalist covering housing trends. When designing or decorating a home, much thought is given to the colors, ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The key to cultivating a certain mood in your home is intentional lighting. If you solely rely on overhead lighting, you're doing yourself a ...

Few things can ruin an otherwise successful interior like ill-considered lighting, whether glaring, shadowy or just inadequate. It’s not simply a matter of aesthetics or function; it’s psychological, ...

Over time, the kitchen has ceased to be considered only as a workspace and became a meeting and leisure area. For many, it is the heart of the home. Therefore, it is necessary to design an ambiance ...

Most lighting designers would agree that asking the right questions from the start, knowing how to integrate designs with electrical engineering requirements, and understanding how to convey the ...

Lighting a brownstone or row house presents a unique challenge. Homeowners must figure out how to illuminate a long, narrow space that usually has no natural light coming from either side. There are ...

Are you a big light person, or a lamp person? Your answer is more important than you might think, if the realms of social media are anything to go by. Those who prefer the light of a lamp are ...

As the heart of the home, kitchens have different lighting needs than other rooms. There's the practical matter of creating enough task lighting for people to prepare meals, but also the need to craft ...

There's nothing like clumps of wiring and pools of open cables to completely tank the otherwise beautiful design of an outdoor space. Be it your patio or your porch, this is one eyesore you'll want to ...

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