If you are looking for a phenomenal quality picture light, the SLED line by House of Troy deserves your attention. SLED stands for Slim-Line LED, and they are currently available in the 20 shade length in a variety of finishes. (By holiday time, however, House of Troy is introducing a much wider variety of LED art lamps, so see the bottom of this article for a special coupon offer.)
Slim-Line is a style that you are bound to be familiar with, as this quality American made picture light has been a fixture in museums, galleries, churches and other quality public places for many years. But the original Slim-Line runs on clever little T4 15 Watt incandescent now the Slim-Line has been redesigned for LEDs. When it comes to lighting your art, the Slim-Line LED brings an amazing presence into your home, and your room will radiate grace because of the light, as well as the art.
An interesting point with the LED Slim-Line models you need to buy a lamp that is 2/3 the size of your image.
The Slim-Line picture light design is flawlessly elegant. The Slim-Line LED (SLED) is a warm white picture light that is ADA approved and has a 50,000 hour bulb life. Each SLED lamp has an 8 height held by metal arches as delicate as swans necks; there is a 10 foot white cord with an in-line switch and a transformer at the plug. The long slender shade that holds the bulbs has a downward aimed slit for the light to shine from, but the shade itself seems like a work of art, it is hard to believe each one is fashioned by hand in the heart of Vermont.
House of Troy LED light output is of conservation quality. In addition to warmer appearance, LED color rendering is also improving: leading warm white LEDs are now available with color rendering index (CRI) of 80, equivalent to CFLs.
While the usual rule of thumb is to buy a picture light with the shade about ½ the width of the image, with Slim-Line style LED lamps we recommend you buy a lamp about 2/3 the width of the image. This is mostly due to the directional quality of LED arrays the light they produce is aimed and projects differently than the light cast by incandescent bulbs.
As a modern, discriminating shopper youve seen that LED lighting is gaining in popularity. There are some very good reasons for that. For one thing they are energy efficient, far more than any other lighting source. LEDs low power consumption costs less to light, and LEDs produce a very efficient, focused light, they emit no heat and have an extremely long life span (30,000-50,000 hrs). Not only that; LEDs are extremely durable and insensitive to vibration. Incandescent bulbs, on the other hand, have delicate filaments which can break simply from heavy footsteps walking by. No UV rays are emitted from LEDs, which is better for your art and photos. And beating the CFL (those prevalent household fluorescents that are all over the place), the LEDs are extremely environmentally friendly and contain no mercury or other toxins. LEDs bulbs are even recyclable.
Of course there are many other picture light styles now available in LED Contemporary and Modern accent lighting, Traditional LED (TLED line), battery operated LED (BTLED), and Direct-Wire LED (DTLED and DSLED). Whatever your choice now is the time to Pre-Order for the Christmas season because these LED picture lights are a new production quantities are limited especially for certain finishes and sizes. The fastest way to get a House of Troy LED is to pre-order through PerfectPictureLighting.com were only minutes away from the factory and pick our orders up daily shipping them immediately to you. Use coupon code PPL$5 to get $5 off your order!
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Charles Flaum, founder and President of perfectpicturelighting.com, has over 15 years of catalog and internet experience in the arts and lighting fields. His focus on providing beautiful, functional and well designed products to educated people has led to the excellent reputation of his companies in musical, artistic, educational and religious communities as well as in the private homes of sophisticated people worldwide.
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