See
things in a new light
There’s
a lot going on in the world of lighting. LED technology is coming of age.
Customers are demanding higher light outputs for lower energy consumption. New lighting
makes and models are seizing these opportunities to enter the market in the
hope of outshining established rivals.
We live
in exciting times, and not just for those with a direct interest in the
lighting industry. Lighting affects us all. Like food, it’s a basic necessity
of life and, like food, it can be served up in a whole variety of styles, from stodgy
greasy spoon to exquisite haute cuisine.
Our personal
preference is for a lighting menu put together from high quality ingredients,
lovingly prepared and presented with flair, care and attention to detail. If
your taste runs to something similar, we hope you’ll find our blog interesting.
The content
comes mainly from the news emails we send out to the past and potential trade
and retail customers of our two online lighting shops – engineeringwithlight.com and stylingwithlight.co.uk. We add new items on more
or less a weekly basis, so the blog’s ingredients should always be fresh.
Outdoor lighting that shines,
whatever the weather
Our
engineeringwithlight online shop specialises in precision engineered outdoor
and garden lighting sourced from around the world. Our brands include Hunza and
LuxR from New Zealand; Lutec, designed in France and now manufactured in China;
Norlys, originally from Norway and now made in Poland; and the UK’s own Elstead
Lighting.
Taken
together, these brands provide you with a high quality option for virtually
every outdoor and garden lighting requirement:
o
ground
level spike spots
o
directional
and ambient wall lights
o
lights
for recessing into walls, steps and floors
o
powerful
uplighters
o
ceiling
lights to recess into soffits or hang from porches, canopies or pergolas
o
lights
for attaching to trees and submerging in ponds
o
bollards,
lamp posts and flood lights for lighting driveways and parking areas
They
also offer a full range of low voltage and 240 volt lighting technologies:
halogen, fluorescent, metal halide, retro-fit LED and, most recently, integral
LED light engines like Hunza’s PURE LED.
Interior lighting with a certain
style
Outside
and garden lights have to be able to withstand bleaching sun, drenching rain
and wild swings of temperature, so the materials they’re made from and the
quality of their manufacture are of primary importance. Interior lights are
different. Obviously they should be beautifully made from high quality
materials, and they should create the light effect you want to achieve. But
they also have to look as good when they’re turned off as when they’re turned
on.
Indoor
lights, in short, are part of the furniture. You have to live with them in a
way that you don’t with your exterior lights. So at stylingwithlight.co.uk –
our online shop for indoor lighting – we select lights for their luscious good
looks as well as the high quality of their craftsmanship.
Our
ranges include the evergreen Lui’s Collection, the Harlequin Lighting
Collection, Elstead’s chrome on brass bathroom lights and four new brands from
the USA available in the UK for the first time: Flambeau, Feiss, Hinkley and
Quoizel. We also feature a selection of our Hunza and LuxR outdoor LED lights
on stylingwithlight because their high IP ratings and impeccable finish make
them ideal for creating dramatic lighting effects in bathrooms, wet rooms and
swimming pool rooms.
Across our
interior lighting brands you’ll find:
· flush and pendant ceiling lights
· glamorous chandeliers
· table lights
· floor lights
· wall lights
· bathroom and wetroom lights
· lampshades
So
there’s a design to help you see every room in a new light – living rooms,
dining rooms, kitchens, bedrooms, boardrooms, ballrooms, halls, staircases…even
the smallest rooms.
The news as it happens…
This
blog highlights new developments in all our outdoor and indoor lighting brands.
Those developments might be a new light design, an enhancement to an existing
light, or a technical advance that enables an existing product to do something
new or better. If any whet your interest and you want to find out more, just
get in touch. You’ve probably gathered by now that we like talking about
lights.
Peter
Reid
Proprietor
of engineeringwithlight.com & stylingwithlight.co.uk
