How and Where do I buy the glass to cover the light bulb? 1 Glass cover broke on my ceiling and 1 free standing light also. Usually what is the cost for something like this?

I get a bonus every year from work. Today I find out if we owe anything on our taxes, and if we don’t, I’d like to spend the bonus on something for the house.

Last year we got new blinds, but I’d like to add some warmth to the rooms with some soft window treatments. However my husband and I agreed that if the bonus should go toward "home improvement", so we also talked about replacing the lighting. It’s a new construction home, and we didn’t get a choice on the lighting, so all the ceiling lights are the hideous shiny 80s brass things.

We plan to put the house on the market in a year or so, so we have tried to keep everything neutral. If I got drapes, I would want to add color and do something different in every room. Since color is such a personal thing, I imagine the drapes are not something that would "improve" the value of the home. We would leave the hardware (rods and brackets), but probably take the actual drapes with us when we move. Even if they don’t stay, I think the house will "show" better if we have soft treatments on the windows.

Lighting on the other hand would stay with the house and improve the value. We installed a bronze ceiling fan in the great room last year and I would like to carry that through the rest of the first floor lighting. I’d like something in stained glass in the foyer, but something more simple for the rest of the first floor (2-3 flush ceiling lights, pendant lights over the kitchen island and informal dining room and a chandelier over the formal dining room table).

It keeps on happening no matter what brand of bulbs I use,

I am remodeling my kitchen and I will be having a 4 foot by 6 foot kitchen island. I would like to to have 2 or 3 light across pendant lighting installed above it. What is the rule for how big (height and width) it should be? Also, how many inches above the island should the lighting be?
I also would like to know has wide the lighting should be to go over a 6 foot island that will have a bar.

track lighting wiring problem, the light stays on, switches don’t control it.
there are two switches on the wall, one on each side of the room.
I had a light in place before, and it worked fine, could on and then off from other switch, or vice versa.

Now, i hooked up a NEW light today, and connected white to white wire, black to black, and ground to ground wires in the light switch, junction box on ceiling.
I’ve got one other wire in the junction box, it’s red. I don’t think it was used before though – it has a marette on it.
Please help.
thanks.

We have decided to swap the living room and dining rooms in our house, that is, use what is supposed to be a living room as the dining room, and visa versa. One problem is that the living room does not have an ceiling light. I would like to install some pendant lights in what is now the dining room for over the table.

My question is this… what is the best way to do this when there isn’t an existing ceiling light?

The room has a wall socket that runs turns off/on using the light switch. I would like to tie it into that light switch, but don’t want to have to cut into the ceiling and walls any more than is necessary.

Any advice would be great.
It is on the lower floor of a two story house.

I was told by a home depot employee that I should buy extra heads in case the ones I have ever break because they may be discontinued and you can’t use other brands of heads.

It this true? I would have thought they’d be universal.

http://www.rd.com/19315/article19315.html

See Figure B. Insted of a standard socket I want to connect a series of recessed ceiling lights (6)

I’ve seen online some stores that sells Moroccan lamps and lanterns, chandeliers but they all look cheap and the designs are not that impressing however i’m looking for a source for high-end Moroccan light fixtures and Moorish lighting like lanterns, sconces, chandeliers, hanging pendants, lamps with unique designs and handmade from quality materilas like solid brass not from thin or cheap metal that rust.
any suggestions?

Hi, so I just bought a light but it did not come with a lighting kit. I really want to have it be a pendant light but i’m not sure where to buy it or what kind of kit will work with it. Here is what it looks like:
http://i691.photobucket.com/albums/vv279/vintage24/DSCF3222.jpg http://i691.photobucket.com/albums/vv279/vintage24/DSCF3219.jpg (this is the top of the light)

I am just using a hanger to hold up my light in my closet right now and I would really like to be able to find the right kit to be able to hang it up in my dining room.

This is what I want it to look like: http://i691.photobucket.com/albums/vv279/vintage24/p_w253_alt_WE09A348_SP09_0811251406.jpg

I have preset lighting already, so I also just want to be able to turn it on and off with the light switch. I dont want the kind where you plug it into the wall.

If anyone could help me that would be fantastic. Thank You!
I already took it to home depot but they didnt have it…

Should the tracks be placed so they are over the cabinets or 1 foot off the cabinets etc? How far should they be?
The kitchen is a 10 by 10 in the shape of an "L"

A few years ago I bought some inexpensive track lighting, actually the lights where permanently fixed, but there was a 3′ section and a 2′ section that used regular bulbs and they where cheap; each whole fixture was maybe ish. Where can I find inexpensive track lighting?

I have a newer home that had two existing light sources in the kitchen. The control switch for the light above the sink is located in the kitchen and the light switch for the light located in the middle of the kitchen is on the wall entering into the kitchen. I tried replacing the light above the sink with a pendant lighting. When taking the existing light down I saw that all the wires were black not labeled so I went to the hardware store and bought a circuit tester. I found out that two wires were hot and the other wire did not set off the circuit tester. Previously one of the hot wires was connected to the wire that did not set the circuit tester off, and the other hot wire was by itself. When I hooked up the pendant light I connected all the hot wires and left the wire that caused no reaction by itself, then connected the ground wire to the screw in the mounting bracket. The pendant light turns on, but the other light will not as a matter of fact both light switches turn on and off the pendent light. Am I suppose to separate the hot wires if so how do i know which one to hook up to the pendant hot wire.

I am having a kitchen island installed that will be 4 ft x 6 ft with a bar on the 6 ft side. I am planning on installing pendant lighting above it. The lighting will have 3 lights across. How wide should the pendant lighting be in order to be in proportion to the bar?

I plan on cutting the main power because the wiring in this house is messed. What do I do with the wires attached to the light? Just snip them and leave them hanging?

I am putting the rope lights behind crown molding. I am installing an outlet behind the crown that the lights will be plugged in to. If I wire a dimmer switch to the outlet will it dim the rope lights? Will dimming the rope lights work?

there are two grey wires in the light no longer being used and also a green and yellow wire unused, the old light fitting could take six bulbs but this new light is a single fitting.

currently an old floresent fixture is installed, how to replace it with track lighting.

We are building a salon and I was wondering if anyone knows where to buy commercial lighting in Dallas, TX. I would like to use those nice pendants and need to buy around 30 of them. Can lights are nice too. Thanks!

I need lamp/lights that can hang from the ceiling but plugs into the wall
NOT the kind that requiers going into the wires-live in apartment,

Whats the diff with a pendant lamp and hanging lamp?
Mounted?

which doesnt requier going into the wireing