lighting

When you decide in the spring time to decorate and refurbish your home, it can be easy to overlook the fact that for 6 months of the year we are winding down to the shortest day and winding back out again to the longest.  There […]

The government is begging us all to take a new smart meter from our energy suppliers.   The point about the saturation advertising is to highlight that if we have a smart meter, we will willingly check it constantly and panic at the readings and thus […]

I’ve been buddies with a lady in the next village for a few years now – we help each other when it comes to fetes and fund raising extravaganzas that we get roped in to on a regular basis.  It came as a real shock […]

When the houses on my estate were built nearly twenty years ago, we were all provided with outdoor lights at the front of the house either side of the up & over garage doors – rather amusingly they’re called carriage lanterns.    Well inevitably after a […]

Ah that time is coming round again – bonfire night.  It used to be such a big thing in my childhood.  I probably fel more attachment to it because my birthday falls within a short period of the big day and somehow any party activity […]

One of the fab things about getting to autumn is seeing the countryside in a new light.  We have had a truly monumental summer period – amazing sunshine and blistering heat for weeks on end.  I personally don’t remember anything like it ever before and […]

Some of the neighbouring houses here have changed hands and a new crop of busy familes have taken over.  The gardens have matured over the years and trees, shrubs etc. have altered the landscape.   This is now when it is a good idea to […]

I have been fascinated by historic houses for many years.   There is one thing though that never escapes me, whether I’m accompanied or not – the lighting in these heritage properties.  I have been helping out at a local place that has reently opened up […]

We live in a small township, in fact our houses are the last of the big executive detached style from the early 2000s before the need to downsize became the bye word in house building.  The town houses of today are generally much narrower and […]

Keeping up with modern lighting trends is not always something that families do as often as they should.  For decades, halogen lights were the thing to have for low voltage outdoor lighting schemes.   These days however LEDs have just about replaced them for the reason […]