Your Lighting Guide: Choose the Right Light Fixture Every Time
Progress Lighting introduces Your Lighting Guide, a user-friendly tool to build a layered lighting plan and find the best light fixtures for any home.
While lighting is a feature that most people take for granted, the quality and placement of lighting can drastically change the overall aesthetic of a home. The lighting you select for your home should not only be functional – it is your opportunity to express your personality and elevate each room’s design aesthetic.
Before picking out lights or lighting fixtures, look around your home. What is the overall feeling you would like to achieve? Do you want your new home to be brightly illuminated or a little more understated? Or perhaps you want options for both?
Introducing Your Lighting Guide
Selecting the perfect lighting does not have to be an overwhelming process. With an eye toward making a user-friendly educational tool, Progress Lighting recently debuted their much-anticipated, full product line catalog, Your Lighting Guide, along with our new 2023 Design Series™ catalog.
“This Guide is intentionally designed so you can quickly understand different options and characteristics of each fixture category,” said Colleen Visage, VP of Product Management at Progress Lighting. “We provide a 3-step process for choosing the perfect fixtures for a properly layered lighting design plan. Simply go to the Product Finder in the catalog and find the corresponding colored tab for the category. Then, for complete product information and more images, visit the fixture page on our website, progresslighting.com.”
How to Create Your Lighting Plan
Light layering is a key part of the lighting design process. And the key to a proper lighting plan is to use a multi-layered approach that combines three types of light: ambient, task, and accent lighting. These different levels of light will add variation, warmth, and express your personality.
Below are the different light layers with their corresponding product categories to fulfill your design intent.
1. Ambient Lighting
Ambient lighting is the foundational, general illumination that typically comes from overhead fixtures – including recessed downlights, large pendants, chandeliers and ceiling fans with lights - and natural light from windows. Think of it as the practical light of the space.2. Task Lighting
Task lighting provides directional light on specific work areas or tasks. Mini-Pendants, recessed lights, and undercabinet lighting are all excellent choices for task lighting.3. Accent Lighting
Accent lighting creates visual interest and adds drama to a room. Use wall sconces and brackets or ceiling fans as part of an interior design scheme to highlight decorative features, architectural details, and other focal points of a room. Accent lighting should be at least three times brighter on the focal point than the general light surrounding it. 
Added together, ambient, task and accent lighting create a visually and functionally balanced room.
New Fixtures and Design Trends for 2023
Throughout both catalogs, readers will find informative sections on interior design trends and tips, fixture information and how to order.
“In addition to our existing fixtures, we are excited to introduce 290 new fixtures across 42 new families and extensions in the latest fashion-forward designs in our new Guide,” said Colleen. “Plus the Progress Lighting Design Series™ Catalog highlights the on-trend designs, artistic influences and fashion-forward elements that create an overall elevated experience in the home,” said Colleen. “These fixtures don’t blend in - they stand out.”
To view our latest collections, you can view all of Progress Lighting’s Digital Catalogs and Brochures, and watch the video below.
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