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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.

Lighting Applications

How Important is CCT? Selecting the Right Color Temperature, and How CCT Adjustable Products Make Choosing Even Easier

One of the best things about LED technology is that it allows you to create your own custom lighting design using color temperature, brightness, warmth and efficiency. By considering the Kelvin temperature, you can ensure that the light fixture complements the intended purpose and ambiance of the space. Different colors of light can impact our mood and behavior. But how does one actually choose the color temperature of their LED lighting? For those unfamiliar, we’ll explain the importance of CCT, how to choose based on your application, and how field-adjustable CCT products help make choosing even easier.

Brands

Create Ambiance and Save Energy with Lutron Whole-Home Light Control

As a leader in the fast-growing smart home market, Lutron provides the perfect solution for any size home and any budget—whether you’re building a new home or want to upgrade your existing one. Lutron works with more smart home devices than any other smart lighting control brand. With over 1,000 dimmable bulbs, regular bulbs can now be made smart, starting with control at the switch. We’ve summarized Lutron’s top three systems, available to order at PROLIGHTING to assist you in deciding. Keep reading to find which whole-home smart solution is right for you.

Products

RAB Sensors Meet LED Lamps for the Ultimate Pairing

RAB Lighting does it again! There’s a new couple in the commercial lighting world: RAB Lighting sensors meet LED lamps to form a dynamic duo now available at PROLIGHTING. RAB has taken a few of their industry-leading motion sensors and combined them with field-adjustable LED PAR lamps to create the best security lighting bundle on the market. These new kits are available with four of RAB’s most popular STEALTH and GOTCHA sensors, with various hood designs and colors for maximized versatility.

PRO Tips

Under Cabinet Outlets: 3-Step Angled Power Strip Guide

Under cabinet outlets are one of the cleanest ways to add convenient power to kitchens, islands, offices, and other finished spaces without cutting standard receptacles into tile or cabinetry. Task Lighting & Power’s Angled Power Strips mount beneath cabinets and countertops, keeping outlets accessible while preserving the look of your backsplash or work surface.

Available in four finish options and standard lengths from 9″ to 72″, these power strips can include single or duplex receptacles, USB-A/C fast charging, and integrated switches for lighting or appliances. This guide compares the APT, APT-USB, TR, and TRS Series and walks you through choosing the right under cabinet outlet solution for your project.

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Lotus Releases the Ultimate J-Box Mount: a Recessed Look Without the Complicated Install

The latest LED product from Lotus LED Lights is here at PROLIGHTING and it’s a total game-changer. Introducing the Ultimate J-Box Mount Recessed LED Light. This patent pending, 5-inch J-Box Mount LED light is already proving to be a big hit with contractors, electricians and do-it-yourselfers alike. Finally, we have a fixture with the look of a recessed LED downlight, but without the hassle of cutting holes in your ceiling or doing an expensive new install.

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Create a Low-Voltage Landscape Lighting Plan with DALS

See your home or business in a new light with these landscape lighting tips from DALS Lighting! Back in the spring, DALS released their line of new LED landscape fixtures – available at PROLIGHTING. Using their integrated LED spot lights, path lights, and bollards, we’ll show you how to create a low-voltage landscape lighting plan of your own — just in time for summer.

General

Under Cabinet Lighting: Types, Spacing & Power Guide

Last updated September 2026

Under cabinet lighting adds focused illumination beneath cabinets, making kitchens, workspaces, and other areas brighter and easier to use. It is especially popular in kitchens, where additional task lighting can improve visibility for food preparation, reading recipes, and everyday countertop tasks.

Choosing the right under cabinet lighting depends on the fixture type, available space, power source, and desired light output. In this guide, we’ll compare LED puck lights, linear fixtures, and tape light, along with recommended spacing, power options, drivers, and installation considerations.

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Angled Power Strip: Task Lighting’s Under Cabinet Solution

An angled power strip is one of the cleanest ways to add convenient power beneath cabinets, countertops, shelves, and islands without cutting standard outlets into finished surfaces. Task Lighting and Power’s patented Angled Power Strip gives homeowners, contractors, designers, and architects a flexible way to hide power while keeping receptacles easy to access.

At PROLIGHTING, we carry a wide selection of Task Lighting and Power products, including Angled Power Strips, Lighted Power Strips, and professionally installed LED lighting solutions.

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Product You Need This Spring: The Caséta Outdoor Smart Plug

Outdoor Smart Lighting That Just Works.

This summer, extend your Lutron smart home system outside with the Outdoor Smart Plug from Caséta by Lutron. The newest member of the Caséta by Lutron family — the Outdoor Smart Plug offers effortless smart control for your landscape lighting, decorative holiday lights and inflatables, motors and pumps, and more. Caséta lets you control your lights in a variety of ways both directly and remotely — via the free Lutron app, your voice, or a Pico Remote. Easily schedule and control your outdoor fixtures year-round, without the need for any manual adjustments. Read on to learn more about what else the Caséta Outdoor Smart Plug can do.