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ing lighting to enhance ambience and
security. Outdoor lighting also includes
landscape lighting and accent lighting.
Together, the lights make homes look
more attractive and safer.
_Design experts recommend the
following to make the most out of
outdoor living experience through
lighting:
• Coordinate lighting styles through-
out the yard for a cohesive look.
Matching deck lights, path lights,
garden accessories and other specialty
landscape lighting fixtures helps cre-
ate a cohesive and enhanced style and
mood.
- Create a focal point that highlights
an outdoor motif Just as a chandelier
creates focus in a foyer, the right light
in the right spot can highlight any area
of the back yard.
• Use outdoor lamps to add atmo-
sphere and build ambience.
• Opt for easy-to-install, low-voltage
lighting systems. Using just 12 volts
of electricity, low-voltage lighting out-
shines even solar lighting as it throws
the light better. Low-voltage systems
can control when the lights turn on
or off.
"Most manufacturers are making
fixtures primarily for incandescent
bulbs, while some manufacturers are
making decorative fluorescents," says
Mike Belesky, the sales manager of
Pine Tree Furniture & Lighting in Lake
Orion. "You can screw a fluorescent
light bulb into most normal light fix-
tures to replace a 60-watt incandescent
bulb. Fluorescent is a few dollars more
upfront but you save in the cost of
energy, and the bulb on average lasts
longer than incandescents, several
years compared to 750 hours?'
Despite the inevitable move to fluo-
rescents, many of Pine Tree Fixtures'
customers still prefer incandescent
bulbs, Belesky says. "They remember
when fluorescents would flicker and
blink when turned on. But fluorescents
are much better now; the public will
have to be educated?'
In addition to its leisure and relax-
ation advantages, outdoor lighting
increases home security, says Joyce
Begnoche, owner of Haig Electric, a
retail and wholesale lighting fixture

store in Clinton Township. She hangs
wall lanterns on either side of her front
door at her Warren home, her garage
door, side door and back door wall.
"They are not annoyingly over-
bright and don't make my neighbors
complain;' she says. "They are decora-
tive and pay for themselves very, very
quickly?'
Fluorescent lights are a better crime
deterrent than motion lights, she says.
"Motion light sensors go bad or can be
covered up to escape detection?'
She also recommends a lantern post
on the front lawn though she does not
have one.
Like all other lighting fixtures, the
available style options today can be
overwhelming; every six months new
styles and new colors appear. "You can
get the whole house with the same lan-
tern style Begnoche says. Fluorescent
lighting comes now in warmer colors
than the traditional blue and the cost
of fixtures starts at $45.
"Lanterns are much more fashion-
able she adds. "Bronze and nickel and
painted finishes have replaced brass
and antique brass. Generally, every-
thing today is cast aluminum?'
The environmental impact of fluo-
rescent lighting has mixed effects. The
Department of Energy says lighting
makes up as much as 20 percent of
power consumption in U.S. house-
holds. The Natural Resources Defense
Council estimates that switching every
home to compact fluorescent bulbs
would prevent the release of 1 trillion
pounds of greenhouse gases into the
atmosphere.
Fluorescent lights are 90 percent
energy efficient, nearly the reverse of
incandescents. Although they contain
poisonous methyl mercury, environ-
mental groups contend that the energy
efficiency reduces pollution by letting
power plants relax.
It's illegal in seven states (not
Michigan) to dump mercury-laden flu-
orescent bulbs with the regular trash.
The National Electrical Manufacturers
Association has pledged to cap the
amount of mercury in fluorescents
while Wal-Mart is planning to reduce
the amount of mercury in its compact
fluorescents by 30 percent. ❑

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