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TOP 5 Reasons You Should Use LED Strip Lights For Your Stairs

  With LED strip lights being the most widely used light fixture by interior designers and contractors, it is becoming a necessity for homeowners. Why? Here are 5 reasons:       1. Most affordable way to revamp your staircase  - We all know that  LEDs  have the longest estimated lifespan when it comes to light fixtures. It can function as long as 50,000 hours. It is also extremely efficient when it comes to electricity usage. Compared to incandescent bulbs, it uses 90% less power. This means that aside from paying less in your electric bills, you can also save long term by using it for up to almost 6 years!       2. Totally customizable  - LED strip lights come in various colors and wide range of size options for your staircase lighting. Here at EShine, you can choose from  single to multiple panels  depending on your need.       3. Transform your home  - Your staircase can be made as an aesthetic eleme...

TOP 5 Tips To Make Your House Look More Expensive Part II

  When lighting in layers,  the idea is to have your eye travel around the room  and let it land and rest on surfaces that you intend to draw the viewer into. If you have a really beautiful gallery wall and some feature lights that were accented on that gallery wall they’ll draw visual impact to that wall versus when you’re not layering lighting at all and sometimes your gallery wall falls flat. So it’s never about more lighting but  strategic lighting . TIP #4: Furniture Layout And creating multiple seating groups also helps you make your home feel cozier. The idea is to create smaller seating groups and little zones based on conversation areas you want to design. But what actually is a Seating Group? A seating group is characterized as anything with a chair next to it. It could be a single club chair with a nice little accent table that becomes your favorite reading nook. It could be two chairs that are facing each other right beside a fireplace and it’s been the p...

More Important Points To Differentiate Cool White From Warm White LEDs

  More Important Points to Differentiate Cool White from Warm White LEDs This is a continuation of another article wherein we further explain how to understand which factors affect your buying decision when attempting to determine which color is better in lighting up your space. Uniformity Across Different Light Fittings If we’re going to do a deep dive, there is a need to start from the  MacAdam Ellipse . What is it? Standard Deviation Color Matching in LED lighting uses this system to describe the color precision of a light source. Color matching is highly dependent on the consistency of colors between a number of light sources. But, how do we achieve this in order to ensure that our space would have the color consistency we’re aiming for? Measuring Color with the MacAdam Ellipse We rely heavily on what our eyes can see. This human sensory information is visual, coming to us through reflected light. When we say ‘color consistency’ it pertains to the non-variation in color fr...

TOP 5 Tips To Make Your House Look More Expensive Part I

  In creating the ultimate upscale experience to make your home look more expensive you want to  consider all aspects of the design . From the floors to the walls to the ceiling, there shouldn't be a surface that’s left untreated. TIP #1: Let the  7 elements of Interior Design  be present from your floor to your ceiling You’ll want to have a visual language from the pattern on your floors to the color of the walls and finally what’s happening in the ceiling you never want to neglect the ceiling and just leave it plain old white unless that’s your intention you can always tint the ceiling with the color that’s a little bit lighter than the walls. You’ll see that all of a sudden it draws your eye up and the design seems very intentional in that way. TIP #2: Use wallpaper as a game-changer Another easy way to  make a room look completely luxurious is adding wallpaper . There's nothing that screams high-end luxe like a room that’s completely covered from wall to wal...