Shining Lights Cont’d from page 105
“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. Cont’d on page 108
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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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