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It’s hard to tell if this is a futuristic Cathedral or an underground portal to some kind of TRON reality, but in fact, it’s an RGB LED filled wine cellar designed by Nashville, Tennessee-based interior designer Jamie Beckwith. The translucent acrylic arches are lined with LED cove lighting that serves 2 purposes: to illuminate the Learn More

  It may seem like a small annoyance, but for anyone who’s rooted around in his/her bag at night, trying to find a cell phone, keys or lip balm, it’s a pretty substantial pain in the arse. While enduring one of these (all-too-frequent) situations the other night, the thought occurred to me: there’s gotta be Learn More

Part LED wallpaper and part customizable decal, Wallbrights are a new idea by designer Debra Courtenay. Each hexagonal shape contains an RGB LED light and employs an adhesive backing, which makes sticking it to the wall simple and quick. You can cluster as many of these LED accent lights together as you’d like, in any Learn More

I have almost completed the process for adding LED strip lighting to the underside of a table. Along the way we have learned how to make use of LED strip light L sections, how to mount, measure, cut and solder LED strip lights and how to make the lighting portable with a 12V battery pack. Learn More

Choosing the correct power supply for your LED project can sometimes be a difficult task, especially with so many options. Elemental has a large selection of power supplies. In deciding on one for my project, I narrowed it down to either wired, or portable. For the wired option, I could have gone with either the Learn More

Now that we have gathered our materials and discussed some of the reasons for choosing a particular LED Strip and the L shaped sections, let’s get into measuring out the proper length of strip lighting, preparing the surface they will be mounted on and soldering the lengths of strip together. As I mentioned in the Learn More

I like to have barbeques every so often on my patio, and I have this awesome white enamel, metal table top that I bring out and put onto a couple of saw horses. The table top is great because it serves two purposes: one as an inside table, and two as an event table of Learn More

LED wallpaper has been in the works for a while, but it seems that Architects Paper might beat others to the punch by making their RGB LED wall treatments available sooner than the rest. In collaboration with well-known lighting designer Ingo Maurer, Architects Paper has created a versatile product that can change color, and can Learn More

We’ve all seen Japanese-inspired paper lanterns—they’re available in myriad colors, shapes and sizes everywhere from Target to IKEA. These vibrant lighting fixtures are popular for a reason; cheerful and easy to install, they quickly provide whimsical ambient lighting for any indoor or outdoor space. Lighting designer Anthony Dickens recently took the concept up a notch Learn More

A computer programmer turned artist and lighting designer has combined his scientific expertise with his love of the natural world to create something truly unique and beautiful. Daniel MacDonald calls his collection of light fixtures “shio,” from the Japanese word for “salt.” They are formed through a weeklong process of washing salt water over an Learn More