Sunday, February 10, 2008 

Outdoor Lighting: Beauty, Security, Safety

Add dimension to your home with professionally designed landscape lighting. Nothing is more majestic than seeing your home illuminated at night. As light gently washes the walls, accents architectural features and illuminates the trees, your home will take on a new dimension and announce its presence in the night. Outdoor lighting has become extremely popular as homeowners have discovered that it adds beauty, security and safety to their property.

Beauty:

Outdoor lighting, when designed properly, will add dimension to a home that once was unnoticeable after dusk. Lighting designers will use different types of light to achieve various tasks. If illuminating an entire surface of a home is the desired effect, then a flood type light would be used to wash the wall. Maybe there is a row of columns, where it would be dramatic if each one were lighted individually. A lighting designer would use a beam of light that has a narrow light pattern, spotlighting each individual column. A majestic tree in landscape might call for soft lighting, illuminating the branches and highlighting one of natures original pieces of art. As all of these lighting types are used in one design and begin to harmonize with one another, a very special effect will be created. Outdoor lighting can produce an effect so endearing that you will find yourself eagerly awaiting and appreciating the approach to your home like never before.

Security:

Another added benefit of outdoor lighting is the security that it can help provide. Many homeowners will have a security system installed in their home, but what they dont realize is that a properly lighted home will not be as likely targeted for theft as a home that sits completely in the dark. A criminal will not be as likely to enter a door or window where he has to do his work in a brightly lighted area. Effectively planned lighting, in concert with your home security system, can help to keep your home and family safe.

Safety:

All of us love to use our outdoors, but unless you have proper illumination at night, it can be difficult to navigate around your property. There are many types of lighting that an outdoor lighting company can install to make the grounds around your home more accessible at night. If you have a retaining wall along your driveway, lights can be installed to illuminate your path to the garage. If you have difficult steps leading up to your home in the front or back, then lighting can be used in the riser portion of the step to define each step. Lighting can also define a walkway connecting the house and the garage. This type of safety lighting is very useful for the elderly as well. While these are just a few examples of how outdoor lighting can add safety to your property, an expert lighting designer can help you to identify your problem areas and incorporate them into their overall design.

After the successful installation of an outdoor lighting project and the night falls for the first time to reveal the results, you will find that you have made a decision that means your money has been well spent. Also know that for energy efficiency, outdoor illumination can be placed on a timer that turns it off at dawn and on at dusk. Outdoor lighting adds beauty, value, security and safety to your property while letting your home be a glowing star in the night sky.

Heather Larson works as a home stager for various real estate companies and individuals in Atlanta, Georgia. She is also a contributing writer for atlantadesigndirectorycamera.Brad Harris Photography
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The Discrimination Laws need to cover ALL US Citizens

Why are we not ALL covered under the Discrimination Laws?

The thought that All Men are Created Equal was one of the founding building blocks of this great country. Unfortunately, it is historically correct to say that we have not always lived up to that concept or ideal. But we are known as a Society that tries to correct any mistakes it makes. Perhaps it is time to correct this issue in the Discrimination Laws?

The anti discrimination law of 1964, has become the foundation upon which we to this day judge whether discrimination has or has not occurred. Within that law, the applicability of that law is limited to protected classes of persons. The classes of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin were the original Protected Classes with Age, and disabilities being subsequently added.

I wish to propose that the landscape has changed greatly since 1964. We are speaking specifically of the landscape or reality of employment in 1964, where white, male, prostestant Euro-Americans dominated the management ranks. Is that true today? Certainly the landscape of management is much less well defined.

We have managers today of every race, every color, every religion, every sex, and every national origin, and yes of all ages and ability levels. As discrimination is a function of mostly management misuse of powers, and as managers come in all the different classes of persons, why then arent the laws updated to include all persons including we who find ourselves to be white, male, protestant Americans.

With 85% if cases being against females, and 15% against males, the fact is that 15% of the known victims of sexual harassment, are not covered under the discrimination laws, unless they happen to be persons of color, or perhaps older in age, or not from Euro-American lineage. And in each of those cases, they would have to prove it was because of the color, age or lineage that this discrimination occurred.

So I ask the question again: Why are we not ALL covered under the Discrimination Laws?

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Dan's Kitchen Design Tips - Building in the Refrigerator

There are several reasons to give the refrigerator a "Built-In" look. The first of course, is appearance. Hiding the huge sides of the refrigerator may be an excellent improvement on the look and feel of your kitchen.

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As you can see, The appearance is a lot different if the side of the refrigerator is hidden. The refrigerator in both drawings are the same size, but the refrigerator in the ' After ' drawing doesn't look as large because your eye focuses on the new wooden panel. You see only the edge of the refrigerator door instead of the large white side. Shown is a standard-depth refrigerator. Cabinet-depth refrigerators are also available, but are more expensive.

To accomplish this, we've added full-height matching panels on each side of the refrigerator, and changed the wall cabinet above from 12" to 24" depth.

The change is a convenience as well. Now, when using the countertop adjacent to the refrigerator for meal or snack preparation, any loose items cannot fall between the refrigerator side and the cabinet. That makes the kitchen much easier to keep clean.

If our wall cabinets are 36" or 42" tall, (not the 30") we'll add to the convenience by adding vertical dividers on at least one side of the cabinet above the refrigerator. We can store lids, cookie sheets, or any other flatware vertically in a cabinet 18" or 24" tall. That gets those troublesome storage items out of the regular cabinet space and makes more room in them for other items.

To store flatware above the refrigerator, you don't need to be able to reach all the way to the back of the cabinet. You just have to be able to reach the front edge of the cookie sheet or lid you need or want to store. Very handy. See details in a sketch at SlidingShelf/div_above_ref.htm">SlidingShelf/div_above_ref.htm.
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