Buying Guides
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Home Lighting Design Guide
Home lighting is the most important key feature that will dramatically change the appearance and atmosphere of your home; clever planning will add value and style to your home.
Kitchen Lighting Design Guide
Perfect kitchen lighting can be achieved through the use of a combination of different types. These can be neatly divided into four main types, general, task, accent and ambient lighting.
How To Select And Look After Outdoor Lights
With very little effort and some knowledge we can ensure that you make the correct purchase and that your lights will look good and give excellent service for many years.
Choosing The Right Ceiling Light
Here we have tried to make it easier for you, with tips and suggestions that have helped many of our customers over the years, who to this day are still delighted with their choice of light fitting.
Guide to Bathroom Light Zones
Lighting in the bathroom is important. Regulations are very strict as to which lights you are able to use in a bathroom and to complicate matters, bathrooms have different zones. Let us explain...
Recessed Downlights Explained
"How many down lights do I need?" and "Do my down lights need to be fire rated?" Whilst every situation differs slightly, I have written this guide to provide some information that may be helpful.
Energy Saving Guide
Universal Lighting are delighted to have become the North-West distributors for Ecogold lamps.
Lighting and Health Guide
In this article, I intend to simplify lighting techniques to enable the reader to make an informed choice when choosing fittings and to identify best practice in relation to an overall lighting scheme
How To Clean Crystal Chandelier Lights
There are several methods of keeping a crystal chandelier sparkling without that dreaded task of taking each crystal off the fitting and washing each droplet by hand.
How To Look After Soft Fabric Shades
People are often put off having soft fabric shades and opt for an easy to clean hard backed shade. This is a shame as this greatly limits the choice of colours and lighting effects available to you.
No more Ordinary Light Bulbs, What Now?
Recent news suggests that we are all going to have to change to low energy light fittings. Is this true or not? Read on for the full information.