St. Patrick's Day Lighting Decor

With St. Patrick’s Day this week, many are looking for a way to tap into their inner Irish and spread the cheer of the holiday. Some will dress in kilts or green beads, while others will have a pint with friends. For those with a little more passive way to celebrate, lights could be a fun way to spread green around your home and office. Below are a few ideas to say “Top o’ the mornin’” this Friday.

Green String Lights

A twist on the classic holiday lights, but with all green. They’re easy to hang and you may already have them in your Christmas stash. If not, add them to your collection for all different kinds of holidays after St. Pat’s, like Halloween, Earth Day, and yes, Christmas.

Green Rope Lights

Add some green without spending a lot of green by using rope lights. They’re extremely versatile since you can use them to make funky shapes and designs with the right accessories. These stand out a lot more than string lights due to their thickness.

Green Light Bulbs

Simply switch out your porch lights with a green alternative bulb for a temporary and easy way to celebrate the holiday. With an LED alternative, most last up to 50,000 hours, so be sure to save the bulb for years to come!

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Gardening Has Never Been Easier With Aeroponics LED Lighting System

It’s growing season, but what if your yard is still not ready for a fruitful garden? Maybe you have some landscaping needs to be done before you plant, or maybe there’s some drainage issues that you’ve run into. Whatever the case may be, you may be able to skip the whole outdoor growing period altogether with a new system designed by Seed Volage Tech, a US start-up. They just unveiled an aeroponics plant growing system that includes LED lighting that enables the growth of plants in a limited space with very little resources.

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The system, named Aerostylic, is a fully automated system that controls watering and LED lighting to optimize growing conditions, within an air or mist environment without soil and with very little water. The system has a sprayer that mists a nutrient solution mix, which flows through the distribution hose mister and then dispersed to the root. The LED lamp mounted on the top of the unit allows the necessary amount of lighting for the correct duration of time.

Becoming a gardener and taking part in this year’s growing season has never been easier with the power right on your smartphone using an integrated app that controls the different parts of the system!

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Supermarkets To Become Energy Efficient With A Simple Update

The biggest bill that grocery stores must pay is the electricity bill. With these buildings having to operate for extended hours, along with their heat-sensitive products that must be refrigerated around the clock, it’s no wonder that most store owners would like to cut down costs where possible. That’s why utilizing energy efficient lighting methods throughout the store can drastically decrease costs across the board.

City Lighting Products has been a long-time partner of Dierbergs Markets and was instrumental in helping with the introduction of LED lighting in many areas of their Lake Ozark, Missouri store.

There are two noticeable characteristics of LED lighting: it is energy efficient and has a variety of products to choose from. Supermarkets that utilize fluorescent lighting may save about 40% in energy if they upgrade to LED fixtures. Even a total of 70% savings are possible as well when replacing metal halide fixtures.

LED lighting also offers up a means of marketing for grocery stores – no other lighting technology offers the amount of diverse color temperatures and optical designs. These benefits can help make the food displays look more appealing to customers. For example, using a warm white color on fruits can make them seem juicier and appetizing. The placement of this lighting is also important, as it can allow you to highlight specific areas in the store. This is helpful when there is a sale going on – you can drive customer’s attention to the sale display through the highlighting of the product.

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Bringing Brilliance Back To The Theater

Back during times of Hollywood’s Golden Age, going to the movie theater was an event in itself. Women would wear their best dress, perfectly painted faces, and satin gloves, while the men would wear their best suit in order to enjoy the talents of what are now referred to as “the Greats” -  actors such as Clark Gable, Judy Garland, Lauren Bacall, Frank Sinatra, etc. And the beauty of a grand theater kept these patrons coming back weekend after weekend. Now, the Emperor UA Cinema in Foshan, China is bringing the elegance, style and light back to movie theaters. 

Just like a view in a kaleidoscope, the ceiling uses triangle and rhombus patters to allow light beams into the cinema, which is the first view a patron gets when arriving. The lighting necessary within the theaters are disguised into the hexagonal features of the walls to balance utility and aesthetic.

Oft Interiors threw out what they knew about traditional movie theater lighting and brought magic and dazzling brilliance back to the theater. Anyone would feel like a movie star walking into their Emperor UA Cinema. 

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