{"id":686,"date":"2008-12-11T12:58:59","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T19:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/?p=686"},"modified":"2012-02-15T20:55:12","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T03:55:12","slug":"lighting-up-your-home-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/lighting-up-your-home-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Lighting up your home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most important elements in home interior decorating is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/articles\/lighting.asp\">home lighting<\/a>. Lighting is instrumental in setting the mood of any room.\u00c2\u00a0 Some things to consider when deciding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/articles\/lighting-to-consider.asp\">lighting<\/a> are\u00c2\u00a0choosing your fixtures, positioning wall switches, and coordinating styles and finishes.<\/p>\n<p>You may need more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/articles\/lighting.asp\">lighting<\/a> and larger fixtures, but you don&#8217;t need to add to your electric bill \u00e2\u20ac\u201d purchase ENERGY STAR rated fixtures, use compact-fluorescent lamps (CFLs), LEDs (light-emitting diodes), dimmer switches and whole-house control systems.<\/p>\n<p>It is important to decide your lighting early. There are many resources available for consumers. \u00c2\u00a0Discuss your needs with a lighting expert from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanlightingassoc.com\/\">American Lighting Association <\/a>(ALA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most important elements in home interior decorating is home lighting. Lighting is instrumental in setting the mood of any room.\u00c2\u00a0 Some things to consider when deciding lighting are\u00c2\u00a0choosing your fixtures, positioning wall switches, and coordinating styles and finishes. You may need more lighting and larger fixtures, but you don&#8217;t need to add [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-houseplans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}