Lighting

Mon - August 15, 2005

dimmers and low voltage UC lights and such

RE: Advantages of low voltage UC lights?

* Posted by: Snoonyb (My Page) on Wed, Aug 10, 05 at 5:42

Basically, when a dimmer is added, you are adjusting the line voltage either to the fixture directly, to a magnetic or electronic transformer, either in the fixture or in a remote location.

Regardless of the lighting system you select, install a quality dimming device in a metal box, NOT PLASTIC.

Though I will install the customers product, my first recommendation is the JUNO T-12 because of the quality and versatility.

* Posted by: Snoonyb (My Page) on Thu, Aug 11, 05 at 0:16

Any dimmer will heat as a function of it's use. Metal boxes act as a heat sink, dissipating the heat over it's entirety and in doing so allows the dimmer to operate at an overall lower ambient temperature, extending it's life beyond the same dimmer mounted in a plastic box, which does not share the same "heat transfer" properties.

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Mon - January 3, 2005

Arroyo Craftsman

Arroyo Craftsman has interesting Arts & Crafts style lights, although Matthew seems to think most are too boxy. Maybe it would be better to go with the Hubbardton Forge ones where we can get rounded glass parts with "linear" supports.

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Hubbardton Forge Lighting

Hubbardton Forge has a "build your own" pendant option - choose number of lights, shade style, glass, finish, etc. See some examples in the catalog, e.g. p 100 . You can get three of these on a fixture, have them with different lengths of the support things (see left fixture on p 101), etc.

The one I saw at the store that seemed nice for the dining room was 3 lights, with "cherry wafers", kind of like this (only i forget what shape the shade was)

I like the fixtures on p 104 & 105, although maybe they're not the right look for you. I like the shade glass color they are calling 'saffra', e.g. this one.

Moonband, anyone? Glass is curved, but support metal is linear ala FLW. T his one is similar, but I'm not sure what the name is.

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Mon - October 4, 2004

nice pendant!

Nice pendant light in farmhouseindy's kitchen. "Tuscan Villa by Murray Feis is name of pendant." Does this fit the kind of look we want?

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Sat - August 14, 2004

Restoration Hardware

lighting sale in October

For the pendant over the 26"x38" island, we chose one from restoration hardware. Fell in love with it and coldn't find anthing else we liked as much. their lighting fixture sale is in oct, if you can wait that long. I was worried as I figured it would be sort of low quality, but when we unpacked it, it was actually a really well built lightfixture (better than I expected it to be).

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Wed - August 4, 2004

Minka-Lavery lights online

Not sure I can find the ones I saw in the store, but these families are interesting (at lamps-lighting.com )
• Linear (these model #s match)
• Radius (hey! this might be it, based on item numbers for mini-pendants!)
• Pacifica (mini-pendant ) (like sconce better but we don't need any)
• Imprezza

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Sat - March 13, 2004

lots o' light

Asked Karen what she would do differently:

"Yes, one big thing is that we didn't put in enough light. If we have the
overhead lights, and the undercounter lights and the light over the kitchen
table AND the over stove light on, then things are pretty well lit. We
should have gone with bigger cans, or regular overhead fixtures.

Also, a smaller deal, is that we have big pullout drawers for all but one
set of under counter cabinets and I wish we had put drawers in that one too.
The pull out drawers make it really easy to see and get to all our pots and
pans, baking gear, plastic storage bins, etc. It seemed a bit strange,
having never had them before, but I am a total convert."

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Tue - March 9, 2004

Some lighting types to consider

1. Recessed cans (overhead)
2. Under cabinet (halogen or xenon)
3. Pendants over the island
4. Light in the soffit cove
5. Lights in the valance in front of the two windows
6. Toe Kicks

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Toe Kick lighting

use tube lighting

"For under the toe kicks, you can put rope lighting, which now comes in a plastic tube for ease of installation. It's cheap and really looks nice. All you need to do is get the electrician to put an outlet under the sink and hook up a wall switch. This works great in a bathroom too."