
How to Elevate Your Outdoor Living Space with Outdoor Lighting
LightForm provides their latest outdoor lighting best practices that can help you with setting the right atmosphere, highlighting features and making connections. As warmer weather draws us outside, it’s the perfect time to turn your backyard, patio, or garden into a beautiful, functional extension of your home. With the right lighting, these spaces can shift from simple to spectacular. Outdoor lighting does far more than improve visibility — it sets the mood, highlights architectural features, and invites meaningful connection long after the sun goes down.
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High CRI, No Pixelation LED Tape Light for Seamless Architectural Lighting – Streamline Tape
Achieve seamless, professional results with Streamline Tape—our latest high CRI (90+) LED strip. Engineered for continuous, no-pixelation linear lighting, it delivers flawless color rendering and uniform illumination ideal for architectural, residential, and commercial projects. Thanks to advanced streamline technology, you get premium performance and cost efficiency. Specify Streamline Tape for your next design—where quality, visual comfort, and value meet… Read More
Changing Scene
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LEDVANCE Expands Ontario Presence with New Specification Agent
LEDVANCE is pleased to announce the appointment of Sterling Architectural Products Ltd. (Sterling Lights) as their new specification agent in Ontario. This partnership strengthens LEDVANCE’s presence in the region and reinforces their commitment to serving the professional lighting design and specification community with innovative, reliable lighting solutions. With decades of experience and a service-driven mindset,… Read More…
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Eureka Wins Three 2025 Red Dot Awards for Product Design
Eureka is pleased to announce that its Velia, Cirra, and Junction luminaires have each received a 2025 Red Dot Design Award for Product Design. It is the 11th consecutive year that Eureka products have been honored with this prestigious award, which is a testament to the company’s consistency and relentless drive to design exceptional luminaires.… Read More…
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Invisible Light, Unforgettable Atmosphere
Designed to elevate visual comfort in hospitality environments, DINE delivers warm, focused lighting exactly where it’s needed most. With its ultra-low glare, it blends seamlessly into ceilings, while tight beam control and precise dimming allow you to create the perfect ambiance. With field-changeable optics that support unlimited filter media, you can fine-tune lighting on-site. Discreet in form yet powerful in performance, DINE brings refined and inviting spaces to life…Read More

Design
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The Residential Contractor’s Guide to Layering Light
Too often, lighting plans default to the basics: a central ceiling fixture here, a few recessed cans there. Functional? Sure. But memorable? Not even close. That’s where knowing how to layer light comes in — a deceptively simple design principle that adds depth, mood, and polish to every space. With a few strategic choices, you… Read More…
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60-Watt vs 100-Watt Light Bulbs: Brightness & Wattage
With the widespread use of LED light bulbs, the replacement and upgrade of different light bulbs have also made the concept of “equivalent wattage” more and more discussed. When comparing 60-watt vs 100-watt bulb, the wattage and brightness are the factors that need to be figured out first. Wattage is used to measure the energy consumption while many… Read More…
New Products
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Liteline: Sirius – Linear 5-Cell Fixed Recessed Downlight
Sirius is a 5-cell multi-source downlight, designed to excel in providing excellent light output with up to 1600 lumens delivered. The linear design compliments any contemporary space, with beam angle options ranging from 15°-50°. The color temperature can be selected on-site to best suit the space, with a switch located on the back of the… Read More…
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Philips Hue Introduces the Play Wall Washer for Immersive Entertainment Lighting & Scales up With Hue AI Power Assistant
Signify introduces adaptive, intelligent new features for Philips Hue that represent the next evolution in how users experience, shape, and interact with light at home. The Philips Hue Play wall washer makes entertainment lighting more immersive and design-forward than ever, while a new generative AI assistant gives users the power to create deeply personalized lighting that… Read More…
Lighting Design & Specification
This special bi-monthly digest has the broadest reach of those that are involved in all aspects of the electrical lighting design and specification industry across Canada. LDS is designed to provide lighting professionals insight and intelligence on those developments in the industry that effect design and specification. From corporate news to new technologies, products and insightful opinions, LDS will become your first read in the lighting industry in Canada. Published bi-monthly on Thursdays.