Contractor Resources

Recessed Lighting Spacing: A Room-by-Room Guide

Planning Your Recessed Lighting Layout

Recessed lighting planning requires more than picking fixtures and hoping for the best. The difference between properly spaced LED recessed lighting and a poorly planned recessed lighting design shows up immediately: dark corners, spotlight effects on walls, or excessive glare from too-bright fixtures placed too close together. Whether you’re planning a kitchen recessed lighting layout or determining bathroom recessed lighting placement, the calculations matter for accurate recessed lighting spacing.

Brands

SATCO NUVO Lighting: The Complete 2026 Product Guide

PROLIGHTING carries the full SATCO NUVO lighting catalog, and it covers a part of most projects that fixture brands don’t: the lamps, retrofit sources and components that finish a job. Bulbs get less attention than fixtures, but nobody wraps up an installation without them.

PRO Tips

How to Light Artwork Like a PRO

Knowing how to light artwork properly can make a major difference in how paintings, photographs, and other pieces look in your home or gallery. LED lighting is a popular choice for art lighting because it offers excellent control, high-quality color rendering, and significantly less radiant heat than traditional incandescent or halogen sources.

Configuring the best lighting for your art is a matter of choosing the right fixtures, lamps, light levels, and angles to showcase the piece while minimizing unnecessary light exposure.

Brands

Fire Rated Downlights: When Code Requires Them and 4 Brands to Know

PROLIGHTING carries fire rated downlights from several manufacturers for contractors working in rated assemblies. But first, why fire rated at all? While typical IC rated fixtures are designed and tested for direct contact with insulation, they’re actually poor flame barriers. Most IC fixtures are light sheet metal or aluminum that breaks down rapidly in direct contact with fire. Every time you cut a hole in a ceiling to install a recessed light, you create a free passage for fire and smoke. IC rated fixtures are built to avoid starting a fire. Fire rated downlights act as a barrier once one has already started.

Brands

DMF’s H Series is Whole-Home Lighting at an Affordable Cost

Now, brilliant illumination and reliable performance are available in any space, for nearly any budget—introducing the H Series residential downlight system from DMF Lighting, now available to order at PROLIGHTING. DMF’s Lighting’s highly sought-after H Series downlight system is the ultimate whole-home lighting solution with an award-winning design, all at an attainable cost. The H Series is optimized and ready to provide exceptional performance with any smart home or connected dimmer. Compatible with Lutron Caséta and Amazon Alexa, Apple Home Kit, and Google Assistant enabled dimmers.

Brands

Go Can-less with Nora Lighting’s New Iolite Downlight Series

Now available to order through PROLIGHTING—Nora Lighting’s new Iolite Can-less Series small aperture LED downlights for residential and commercial applications. The award-winning Iolite Series already offers hundreds of LED downlight design possibilities for any project and specification. Now, instead of dedicated housings, the entire Iolite family of LED downlights is available without any housing required for maximum versatility. The functionality of the Iolite Can-less Series allows each downlight to meet your design criteria’s needs. Iolite Can-less fixtures are an excellent choice to provide your general downlighting application with specification grade, long lasting, energy efficient illumination.

Brands

At RAB, the Future is Field-Adjustable

In recent months, RAB Lighting has continued to launch a steady stream of new and updated LED products that feature field-adjustable technology. Field-adjustable or field-selectable fixtures are lighting products that use LED technology to allow users to customize color temperature and/or lumen output (wattage). Field adjustability is an emerging trend across most categories of lighting, allowing one SKU to do the work of many. Because different correlated color temperatures (CCTs) work better depending on the space, field-adjustable fixtures are an ideal choice in those situations when you’re uncertain about the color temperature or your needs might change.