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PRO Tips

5 Reasons Why You Should Treat Yourself to New Lighting

From swapping out builder-grade flush mounts to enhancing curb appeal with new outdoor lighting: explore why it’s the perfect time to upgrade your home’s lighting.

As we get into the full swing of the holiday season and the New Year approaches, those who find themselves in charge of hosting may want to use this time to tackle a few home projects before guests roll arrive. Upgrading overhead lighting in key rooms such as the dining room, guest bathroom, and entryway, can transform your space and elevate the overall holiday experience. Here are 5 reasons why now might be the right time to treat your home (and yourself) to new lighting.

PRO Tips

How to Light Artwork Like a PRO

For all the effort and resources that go into curating a personal art collection, it’s essential that the final result is gallery-worthy. Proper art lighting using LED technology can achieve this. LED lights are ideal for bringing out the best in any type of artwork, and they don’t risk damaging the work. Just as professional gallery lighting relies on LEDs, they’re particularly well-suited for valuable pieces since they don’t emit ultraviolet (UV) or infrared light. Learning how to light art properly ensures both visual impact and long-term preservation. Configuring the best lighting for your art is a matter of choosing the right fixtures, lamps, and angles to best showcase your art and protect it from long-term damage.

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

Choosing the Right Angled Power Strip For Your Application

You may be familiar with Task Lighting and Power’s popular Angled Power Strips — power at your fingertips, tucked out of sight. Utilized mostly in kitchen applications, these customized under cabinet power strips are designed to preserve the beauty of your backsplash or island, providing under cabinet outlets that are tucked away rather than cutting into expensive tile or cabinetry. Made in the USA in four finish options, ten standard lengths from 9″ to 72″, and with options like integrated USB-A/C fast charging, switches for controlling lights or appliances, and custom device placement, Task Lighting’s under cabinet power strips have quickly grown to become one of the best-selling cabinet outlet solutions at PROLIGHTING. This selection guide will walk you through selecting an Angled Power Strip perfect for any job.

Brands

RAB’s Most Versatile Downlight Yet: Meet the New LED 3-in-1

3 Mounting Options in 1.

RAB Lighting’s newest LED downlight has arrived at PROLIGHTING, and it’s proving to be their most versatile offering yet. The RAB 3-in-1 Downlight is not only field-adjustable—with five selectable color temperatures ranging from 2700K to 5000K—it offers the installer three mounting options in one. This one compact downlight easily mounts to junction boxes, into ceilings, or in recessed housings.

Brands

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.

Brands

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 Basics: Sizing, Spacing and Techniques

Last updated November 2025

Welcome to the world of under cabinet lighting. As the name suggests, under cabinet lighting refers to lights that are installed under a cabinet, resulting in illumination of the area directly below a section of cabinets. It is most commonly used in kitchen areas, where additional lighting is useful for tasks like reading recipes and food preparation.