Choosing Correct Light Bulb for Your Lighting Needs

Choosing the correct lighting can be difficult, but critical in creating the correct illumination for your home decor projects. There are a wide variety of bulbs, each having their own unique characteristics. Illumination of horizontal and vertical surfaces can impact the depth and perception of your interior decorating projects.

Type of bulb consideration should be decided by matching bulb coloring and the coloring of walls, furniture, ceiling, floor and other accent pieces. When matching color try using two widely different bulb color rendering. If the color matches under both of these sources they will problably match under any source of illumination.

Warm sources of illumination should be used at lower levels, which can be acheive with dimmers. At higher levels use a cooler whiter bulb, warm color schemes sometimes can be overwelmingly warm with a warm source. You might want to add at least one warm source of ambient illumination for effect.

When illuminating wall hangings or art you might want to choose a brighter more intense bulb with precisely controlled beam spreads, giving it a more dramatic effect. By using a 30 degree angle on a flat picture or glossy wall hanging will help illuminate glare.

I will try to give you a little information, tips and applications that might help you decide which bulb would best fit your home projects. Keep in mind the bulbs of choice might change depending on the fixtures you are using.

The size of the electrical service connected to a home or building is measured in amps, service in a typical home is 120 volts. Keep in mind if you intend to use 110 low voltage system you will need a transformer to cut voltage down.

Incandescent bulbs have a wide range of types and shapes, from standard A medium bulbs, reflectors, halogen and xenon ect. Incandescent bulbs can be filtered to almost any color because of their wide spectral distribution. Color filtering can be obtained by coating, booting or by using external filter. Incandescent A bulbs or standard medium base bulbs produce 20 lumens per wattage of electricity. To learn more about efficiency search www.sylvania.com on the Web.

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