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Builders Guide to Home Lighting

Residential Lighting

Builders Guide to Home Lighting offers builders and electrical contractors practical advice for installing energy-efficient lighting in homes. This information comes from The Lighting Pattern Book for Homes, a comprehensive home lighting design tool developed from extensive research on lighting technologies and applications as well as consumer surveys.

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Interactive Living Room and Kitchen

The following links open image maps displaying several different fixtures. Click on any fixture for information about that product type and links to manufacturers, distributors, and related articles.

The Living Room

The Kitchen

Economic Worksheet

Data on lighting technologies, including typical prices, suggested values for hours of lamp operation in various rooms, and a worksheet that you can use to analyze the costs of using the lighting in your designs.

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    • Published with the permission of Lighting Research Centre of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute