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Gooseneck Angle Shades Look Classy Both Day and Night

When you own a commercial business, be it a restaurant or retail venue, you have many considerations for your exterior spaces to capture people’s attention and draw them in. Landscaping is one way to spruce up the outside of a building as is bold, easy-to-read signage that can’t be missed. When darkness falls, it becomes even more important to have a good commercial lighting plan not only to highlight the exterior features, but to keep your property secure as well. Read More »

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Post Mount Lights Brighten Outdoor Patio, Parks with Style

post_mount_outdoor_lighting_commercial.jpgNothing makes dining al fresco better than a cool fall evening so you can linger over your meal and some good lighting so you can actually see what you’re eating! Commercial lighting, especially restaurant lighting, poses unique challenges, and outdoor seating such as this must not only be comfortable for patrons, but well lit for aesthetics and safety.
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Gooseneck Emblem Shades Parade Above Popular Boston Tavern

emblem_shade_gooseneck_lighting_restaurant.jpgWhen you travel in and around Boston, you soon discover two things — all of the sights and sounds of every historic battle you’ve read about since third grade history class are even better in person. And two, there is no shortage of places to pop in and have a beer when you get tired of walking! This popular spot south of Boston offers live music and traditional pub fare, but what draws people to this pub as opposed to the dozens of others you pass on your way to Bunker Hill?

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Warehouse Shades in Vintage Green Light Up Modern Attraction

vintage_green_warehouse_shades_attraction_lighting-1024x766.jpgThere’s nothing like putting a new twist on an old favorite. Black lights have been popular for a long time and have been used in a variety of ways — for diagnostic purposes in medicine, in tanning beds, for curing plastic resins, and even for attracting insects to Grandma’s back porch bug zapper. And while they’ve also been used for decorative and artistic lighting, is anyone up for a round of Black Light Mini Golf? This attraction has taken the game of golf to a new level and must be especially challenging when trying to putt through the windmill on the 18th hole.

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Barn Lights and BBQ Mean It’s Time for Football in the South

College football season has finally arrived and all across the south, that’s cause for celebration! The Southeastern Conference is home to some of the best teams in NCAA football, and there are long and storied rivalries playing out every Saturday in places like Death Valley, Between the Hedges, and in the Swamp. In Knoxville, Tennessee, home of the Volunteers, football season is prime tailgating time which includes not only the back-of-the-pickup variety but those tailgaters who float to the stadium down the Tennessee River and make up the Vol Navy. Barbeque is a standby for tailgating and Vol fans love the tailgate menu from Dead End BBQ, a great restaurant near campus with classic barn lighting, orange-drenched walls, and plenty of Tennessee memorabilia. It’s a popular spot before the game and after the final whistle too.
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Vintage Lighting Lends Authentic Atmosphere for Woodworking

When Roy Underhill, host of the long-running PBS series “The Woodwright’s Shop,” went back to his North Carolina roots to open a woodworking school, he wanted to give his students the full vintage experience. His school, located in charming Pittsboro, has a few rules. Only hand tools in operation here; no power allowed. Tape measures are a big no-no, and as Underhill unequivocally states, “Any tools with plastic handles must be hidden when I walk by.”
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