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Lighting Design for Dummies.(Column)

Lighting Design for Dummies

By Michael Menn AIA, CGR, CAPS

In the last three months I have received a lot of feedback on my previous articles about lighting. Based on that response, I plan on doing a series about residential lighting design and principles.

It wasn't more than two decades ago that there were few choices for residential lighting. You were basically limited to A-lamps, R-lamps or par-38 lamps. The only choices for housings were a 6-in. downlight, adjustable eyeball or a wall wash trim. Additionally, the only aperture available was 6 1/2 in. Our only other choice was the fluorescent lighting. It was not easy to be creative.

Since then, the options ...

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