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Designers are increasingly imaginative in creating fixtures
that use energy-efficient LED lights — using strips of LEDs
that reflect light into the room, hiding LEDs under the lip
of a fixture so only the reflected light is visible, or putting
them inside an old-fashioned bulb that is tinted slightly yel-
low to give them a retro look.
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"Energy efficiency is top on a lot of people's
lists," Silva says. "When you're dealing with
many pot lights in a home, sometimes up-
wards of 50, it's definitely a benefit to be
able to use a 15- or 20-watt LED vs a 90
watt."
Leigh Robinson, executive vice-president
at Robinson Lighting, was also impressed
by the variety of style trends on display at
the massive Dallas show.
"What's coming is a lot of matte brass fin-
ish, mid-century modernism, a lot of natu-
ral wood finish," she says.
As in other aspects of a home, lighting
combines function with fashion and it
changes as styles evolve. The industry con-
tinually adopts new looks and develops
new takes on old looks. At the same time,
it's driven by technological advances. Rob-
inson sees how LED technology is chang-
ing lighting in a number of ways.
One new development is using round
disks of LED lighting in place of the popu-
lar recessed halogen lights.
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