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Inspired House Issue #9, Mar/Apr 2005

Lighting the Night
A lighting designer's illuminating techniques to brighten your home, inside and out
by Randall Whitehead

More than anything else, good lighting design is critical to making outdoor rooms work. And well-designed and executed outdoor lighting schemes go a long way toward balancing and enhancing the indoors as well. Lighting designer Randall Whitehead offers you strategies for achieving just the right mix of lighting in your outdoor spaces, from spotlighting a special statue, to proper fixtures and wiring, to eliminating the "black mirror effect" indoors.


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