Beat the Heat: Cool Lighting Trends for Refreshing Home

Summer warmth brings a unique charm, but also challenges in keeping home environments cool. Innovative and energy efficient lighting solutions from DEKOR® Lighting enhance your home’s aesthetic and help effectively manage indoor temperatures. Let’s dive into how these lighting trends can make your home a cool, inviting space this summer.

Embrace LED Efficiency

LED lights are the cornerstone of modern lighting with their energy efficiency and minimal heat emission. By integrating DEKOR®️’s LED Deck Lights and Landscape Lighting, you can illuminate your outdoor spaces without the heat burden, making summer evenings pleasantly cool. These lights are perfect for those who enjoy hosting outdoor gatherings, providing both ambiance and comfort without overheating your space.

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Furthermore, LEDs are cost-effective. They consume less power over time and have longer lifespans than traditional lighting options. Incorporating these into your home is not just a stylistic choice, but a smart environmental and economic decision. The reduced heat output and lower energy consumption contribute to a cooler home environment, making LEDs an ideal choice for eco-conscious homeowners.

Customizable Comfort with RGBW Lighting

The ability to customize the color and intensity of your lighting can dramatically transform the mood and temperature perception of a space. Our RGBW Lighting system offers a palette of cool tones, which can visually reduce the perceived temperature of a room. The RGBW COLORKONNECT series allows you to adjust the settings to create a personalized atmosphere ranging from soothing to energizing, depending on your needs.

In addition to mood enhancement, the versatility of RGBW lighting can be adapted for various uses throughout your home, from accent lighting in living rooms to vibrant displays in game rooms. This adaptability makes a perfect addition for homeowners looking to combine functionality with creativity, keeping their spaces cool and visually stunning.

Optimize Outdoor Living with Pergola Lighting

Maximizing your outdoor living space is essential in summer. Our Empyrean LED Pergola Lights are designed to brighten these areas without overwhelming them with heat. By enhancing the usability of patios and porches during cooler evening hours, these lighting options encourage outdoor activities and relaxation in a comfortably lit environment.

These fixtures not only provide functional lighting but also enhance the architectural features of your home, blending seamlessly with your exterior decor. They are built to withstand outdoor conditions, ensuring longevity and performance. Whether you’re enjoying a quiet evening or entertaining guests, our lighting solutions create the perfect ambiance for every occasion.

Summer Nights Enhanced with LED Lighting

DEKOR®️’s Aluminum Perfect Panel with Lights redefines outdoor fencing by integrating sublime aesthetics with exceptional functionality. These panels not only ensure privacy and security but also enhance the visual appeal of any landscape with their built-in LED lighting. The lighting is strategically designed to offer a soft, ambient glow, which creates a serene atmosphere in your outdoor spaces, making them ideal for evenings spent in the garden or on the patio.

The Aluminum Perfect Panel is crafted from powder-coated aluminum, ensuring durability against the elements while maintaining a sleek, modern look. The installation process is straightforward, promoting a seamless integration into existing fence lines without the need for extensive modifications. This blend of elegance, performance, and ease of use makes these lights a top choice for homeowners looking to combine functionality with style in their outdoor living areas.

Indoor Cooling with Under Cabinet and Recessed Lights

Under Cabinet and Recessed Lighting are excellent choices for maintaining cooler conditions indoors. Our LED Under Cabinet Light Bar Kit offers targeted illumination that is ideal for task-oriented areas like kitchens and workshops. These lights provide essential visibility without the added heat of conventional bulbs, helping to keep your workspaces cool and comfortable.

The Decorative Recessed Inlay Light, on the other hand, integrates smoothly into ceilings, providing a sleek look while minimizing spatial intrusion and heat output. Their discrete nature makes them suitable for any room, enhancing the overall aesthetic without compromising on comfort. Implementing these in your home can help manage both the temperature and the energy efficiency of your lighting.

Smart Lighting Solutions

Our DEKORKONNECT™ WiFi Light Controller exemplifies the integration of technology and convenience, enabling you to control your lighting via smartphone. With this smart system, you can make real-time adjustments based on your daily schedule, reducing energy consumption and ensuring that lights are used only when necessary. Effectively avoiding wasteful energy use, this system is a practical tool for keeping your home cool and efficiently lit.

The flexibility of smart lighting extends beyond just functionality. Managing your home’s lighting from anywhere offers peace of mind, ensuring that you always return to a well-lit, comfortable home.

Takeaway

DEKOR®️  Lighting’s innovative solutions are at the forefront of combining style with practicality to create comfortable, cool environments within your home. From energy-efficient LEDs to customizable RGBW lighting, each product is designed with your comfort and lifestyle in mind. This summer, beat the heat by transforming your home with these top lighting trends.

For more information on our range of products and to see how they can help cool down your summer, visit DEKOR®️  Lighting.

FAQs

Yes, DEKOR® manufactures all circuitry in Denver, CO providing excellent quality.

DEKOR® offers a COLORKONNECT WiFi controller and through the app you can dim the lights, change colors, and set schedules. You may also control light colors with dimming capability manually on the front face of the COLORKONNECT WiFi device.

When using the COLORKONNECT WiFi controller app provides you the ability to control your lights regardless of where you are located.

The 3W4PORT splitter/repeater has two functionalities: the splitter is used to connect the power wire and the three additional ports for 2-3 lights based on your lighting plan. The repeater is to be used every 20’ with long cable runs and at the light connections to enhance the signal creating pure colors from the first light to the last.

DEKOR® offers a simple 3W4PORT Plug-N-Play system with various cable lengths to make the install easy in any application.

You may change colors and dim the lights manually on the COLORKONNECT device.

Yes, with the use of two or more COLORKONNECT WiFi controllers and wiring two or more zones will deliver different light color patterns.

You may power up to 60-watts of light usage or 28 individual lights.
Our lights are 46% brighter and we have a dedicated pure white channel.
We offer a variety of lengths for any application—20”, 5’, 10’ and 20’.

Yes, you can add to your current non-RGBW DEKOR® lighting system by adding RGBW lights!  While the non-RGBW DEKOR lighting system is a 2-wire direct current system, and the RGBW DEKOR lighting system is a 3-wire direct current system, you are able to integrate both systems by creating a separate zone.  Either using a splitter running from you current transformer or upgrading to a 100 or 200 watt transformer, which has more than one output from the transformer, you can create an additional zone or zones.  Please call us if you need us to walk you through this!

The transconnect cable is for our standard DEKOR® Lighting 2-wire lights. The COLORCONNECT WiFi controller is a 3-wire system. The male-to-male cables come in lengths of 20”, 5’, 10’, 20’ are to be used to connect the COLORCONNECT WiFi controller and then to your first light.

For our RGBW system: The 36-watt and the 60-watt transformers will include one (1) 20’ 3WPNP male-to-male cable. The 100-watt transformer will come with (1) transconnect cable and (1) 20’ 3WPNP male-to-male cable. The 200-watt transformer will include (1) 20’ transconnect cable with two lead wires and (1) 20’ 3WPNP male-to-male cable.

The 3W4PORT splitter/repeater may only be used with the RGBW system. The 6-port splitter is a two wire and can only be used with our standard DEKOR® Lighting system.