Buyer’s Guide To Downlights

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Buying downlights for the first time can be a confusing and frustrating experience, especially with so many different options available on the market. You may encounter various terms like colour temperature, beam angle, integrated downlights, and more. Without knowing what they are, you might end up with something that's the opposite of what you need! So, how do you choose...

Do LED Lights Attract Bugs?

Do led lights attract bugs

Although hanging out on your porch on a breezy summer evening sounds fun and refreshing, having to deal with swarms of bugs circling around your outdoor lights is just plain awful! It's like every minute there's a bug crawling up your arm or falling on your shirt. You won't even be able to relax because you keep swatting, shooing,...

Man Cave Lighting Must-Haves

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Deadlines, meetings, consultations, and appointments, with all this piling up in your calendars, you must be wanting to bolt out? Everyone needs an escape to relax so that they can reset and work again. Having a flooded calendar with no space to breathe will only lead to compromise and poor performance. Therefore, you need a safe place to unload...

Bathroom Lighting Zones and Regulations Explained

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Designing a bathroom lighting plan is like doing a puzzle. Certain pieces fit specific parts, and if you don't put the right pieces together, it will not work out. Technically, lighting set-ups are not that complicated since you can use almost any type of fixtures around your home. But the bathroom is different. There is such a thing called...

Lumens vs Watts: How Do They Affect Your Lighting?

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When LED lighting first dropped in the market, one of the most common questions that popped into the consumer's mind was “How do lumens affect wattage?” or “Are lumens relevant to the wattage rating of the lights?” The reason for this is that when people used to buy incandescent bulbs and fluorescent lights, the brightness of the light depended...

Investigating the Trend That Is the LED Bathroom Mirror

Simple Lighting Blog: Investigating the trend that is the LED Bathroom Mirror

LED bathroom mirrors are one of the trendiest LED infusions to an average home accessory. Before its latest design, illuminated mirrors used to have incandescent light bulbs that consume so much energy and don't have that long to live. Fortunately, its LED counterpart was not only able to address those issues but also integrated several new features that make...

5 Reasons Why You Should Use Recessed Lighting

Simple Lighting Blog: 5 Reasons Why You Should Use Recessed Lights

Before, the sole purpose of lighting was to illuminate a space. All you needed from your lights was to help you see what you were doing and keep you safe instead of performing tasks in the darkness. However, people started seeing the difference between a correctly laid out lighting plan and just sticking a bulb into the main ceiling...

Simple Lighting Becomes a Member of The Lighting Industry Association

Simple Lighting Becomes a Member of The Lighting Industry Association

As of June 16th, 2021, Simple Lighting has officially been recognised as a member of The Lighting Industry Association. With this partnership, we aim to further sharpen our expertise and venture into the other facets of the lighting industry as we move forward with this association. At Simple Lighting, we sell decorative products such as Fire Rated Downlights, Under Cabinet...

Why Do Gamers Like LED Tape?

Simple Lighting Blog - Why Do Gamers Like LED Strip

Have you ever seen your favourite gamers streaming without being surrounded by awesome coloured lights? Lighting can be the make or break of a room and as a game enthusiast, your priorities are probably a high-performance gaming machine and an exclusive space to set up all your gadgets. If you've already maxed out the specs of your equipment, and...

Advantages of Using LED Panel in the Office

Simple Lighting Blog: Advantages of using LED panel in the office

How many hours do you spend in the office? Maybe around eight to ten hours or even more if you need to have overtime. If you think about it, more than half of your day is spent in the office, and less than that is the time you spend at home. So, if you have a terrible work environment...