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Why Choosing LED Lighting Makes Sense When Building a Dream Home, House Addition, or Remodeling

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When actually building your dream home, the addition you’ve always wanted, or remodeling the home you love into the home you’ve dreamed of, there’s always a tension. It’s the tension between desire and budget. You want to incorporate the best, most advanced, longest-lasting material available, but the project has to remain on budget. There is one area, however, in which the most advanced, efficient, and longest-lasting technology is also the most financially sound choice—LED lighting. When incorporating LED technology into your project, the only tension you’ll face is whether to use the T5 or T8 LED tube lighting in your new garage. Lighting for the House, Garage, and Outbuildings Speaking of lighting in the new garage: One of the reasons for the popularity of LED lighting technology is its versatility. The individual light-emitting diodes (LEDs) that produce the light are extremely small. That allows LED lights to be engineered as bulbs, tubes, spotlights, street

Lighting Tips for Building and Outfitting a Work Shed

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There are the repairers and restorers, the woodworkers, and the artists. There are amateur carpenters, mechanics, metal-workers, engineers, and a world of other hobbyists, builders, and tinkerers. For any of them, their workshop is a sanctuary. But sometimes their hobbies and projects can outgrow the spare room or basement workspace that had served as the workshop. When it’s time to build a dedicated work shed, it’s essential to plan for enough light to work by. Whether it’s through windows, skylights, LED tube lights , or some combination of them, ensure your workspace isn’t botched by bad lighting. Shed vs. Work Shed A shed and a work shed are different structures for different purposes. A work shed is an outbuilding, or sometimes an attached, isolated space, meant to serve as a workshop. A shed, on the other hand, is normally just for storage. The optimal workshop requires bright, focused lighting, and electrical outlets for power tools, fans, heaters, and other