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Lighten Up Your Life: Top Residential Lighting Trends for 2024

April 3, 2024

Lighting is an essential element of any home, both for function and for setting the mood. In 2024, residential lighting trends are all about creating a comfortable, stylish, and functional atmosphere. Here’s a look at some of the hottest trends to inspire your next lighting upgrade: 1. Layering and Functionality Gone are the days of […]

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Human-Centric Lighting Is Not a Product. It Is a Design Responsibility.

July 8, 2026

Human-centric lighting is becoming one of the most discussed topics in architecture, interior design, and wellness-focused spaces. But it is also one of the easiest topics to oversimplify. It is not just a “healthy LED.” It is not just warm-to-cool tunable lighting. It is not just high CRI, full-spectrum technology, or a control app. At

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The Hidden Gap in Custom Home Lighting Design

June 18, 2026

On a custom home, lighting rarely gets designed by one person. The architect defines the ceiling intent — coffers, coves, apertures.The interior designer selects the decorative fixtures — pendants, sconces, statements.The electrician resolves whatever wasn’t fully decided — in the field, mid-construction, under schedule pressure. No one owns the whole problem. That’s not a critique

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I visited an award-winning kitchen to understand how lighting performs in real spaces

June 12, 2026

Kitchen design is often beautifully resolved.Kitchen lighting is often assumed. But task lighting isn’t just about fixtures — it’s about where light actually lands when someone is standing at the counter. I visited the award-winning kitchen at Atlanta Design Group Studio to see it in person. Thanks to Michael Schluetter for hosting me — the

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Nobody is doing the lighting.

June 12, 2026

Lighting design is one of the few project disciplines that can fall between every scope and still touch all of them. The engineer owns code compliance. The rep owns their product line. The EC prices what’s on the drawing. The GC coordinates what’s in the contract. None of those roles are wrong. But none of

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The fixture had a great beam angle. The glare complaint came anyway.

June 12, 2026

Here’s what happened. High-ceiling space — fixtures mounted over 12 feet. Tight beam angle, controlled distribution. All looked right on the photometric file. What the file doesn’t show: field angle. Beam angle is where 50% of peak intensity falls. Field angle is where 10% falls — the outer edge of the light cone. On the

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