Varaluz Lighting and Trans Globe Lighting

Inviting Lighting is proud to announce two new product lines to our lighting and home furnishings selections: Varaluz Lighting, and Trans Globe Lighting. Varaluz presents a fun, down to earth line of creative and original lighting designs. Trans Globe Lighting has been making lighting ranging from ultra-contemporary to traditional designs for over twenty years. Enjoy browsing these two new, and welcome additions to our website!

Lighting Retailer Launches the Easy Button - “$ Make an Offer”

E-commerce has become a very popular way of shopping with the increase in safety and protection that credit card companies have provided to card holders. More buyers are shopping online according to retail sales statistics. Fraud protection has helped increase buyer trust in shopping online.

In addition to safely buying, how can consumers get the best pricing on a lighting fixture and lighting/furnishings in general? In today's market, buyers would like to have a magical button that allows them, the buyer, to contact a lighting retailer and say "this is what I am willing to pay today." Well, one indoor and outdoor lighting company has actually made an easy button called "$ Make an Offer." Click on the link for an example!

According to the owners - "The housing market in general, as it relates to home lighting is a corner stone in our economy and we realize that in an economic crunch there is no better time than now to give back to your loyal customer base." When asked where this philosophy came from, the owners stated, "We would like to take credit ourselves, but it actually came from a smart business acquaintance that has practiced this philosophy and became very successful. It's time to give back! If you find this hard to believe you don't know us very well. Stick around we promise it will only get better.

Question: So how does this "$ Make an Offer" work?
Owner's Answer: "Well it's quite easy. There is a button on the product pages of the website and you simply click that button and key in the price that you are willing to pay. We know that most of our customers are serious and 90% of the people that use this feature are not looking for us to take a loss on an item, they simply want a fair price. We sell like we ourselves want to shop."

Question: What if it's an unreasonable price, let's say it's a $1,000 product and someone makes an offer of $600?
Owner's Answer: "Well, that tells us that this person really wants this product badly, however, we can't sell items at a loss, but if they were to agree to something in between $700 and $1,000 we might just let them have it. And again, most our customers are reasonable buyers and really don't expect something for nothing - just a good fair price. You really would be surprised what we say yes to sometimes, especially for our return customers."

Question: Why don’t you advertise this method?
Owner's Answer: “Many of our manufacturers will not allow us to advertise below a certain price. But when our customers contact us we can negotiate the bottom line sale price. And they can do that by simply clicking the $ Make an Offer button.”

Question: Isn’t this like car sales?
Owner's Answer: (laughing) “No, this is very low pressure, it’s over in about 30 seconds, if they call us.”

Question: It’s that easy?
Owner's Answer: “Yes, and we're averaging about a 75% success rate with our customers right now!"

Ceiling Fans - From Water and Belt Driven to Electric

Ceiling fans in the USA can be traced back to the 1860s. Prior to the 1880's, ceiling fans were not electric. Instead, powered by running water and functioning like a turbine to turn belts which in turn produced a rotation of two bladed fan systems. These systems could accommodate several fan units and became popular in many business places.

Electrical powered ceiling fans were discovered in the 1880's. One of the first to assemble such a unit was Philip Diehl, yes, the engineer of the sewing machine motor. Diehl utilized the electrical motor and concept of the sewing machine to create the first prototype of what we know as the beltless "electric ceiling fan". Beltless in reference to external belt power driven. For clarification, internally, a fan can be direct drive or belt driven, even in modern day fan designs.

Shop for modern ceiling fans, traditional ceiling fans, tropical ceiling fans, indoor and outdoor ceiling fans, Emerson and Ellington ceiling fans now.

For those interested in more about Philip Diehl - Philip H. Diehl (29 Jan 1847 - 7 Apr 1913) was born in Dalsheim, Germany. At the age of 21, in July, 1868, he immigrated to New York City where he worked in several machine shops. Then, in that same year, he found employment with the Singer Manufacturing Company in New York City. In 1870 or 1871 he went to work at the Remington Machine Company in Chicago and stayed there until 1875. In 1871 the great Chicago fire occurred and it is said that Diehl had a narrow escape from death; he lost all his belongings to the fire. In 1875 Diehl took charge of experimental work in the improvement of sewing machines in the Singer plant in Elizabeth, New Jersey. This was not a trivial job because by 1897 Singer was manufacturing nearly one million machines a year, including 53 different constructions and 360 varieties of machines. These included the ordinary machine for family use and various types for manufacturing, including machines with 12 needles operated by steam or electricity (taken from wikipedia).

Uttermost Lighting and Decor Line Added!

Inviting Lighting has recently added the lighting products manufacturered by Uttermost. Uttermost has been producing high quality lamps and lighting fixtures since 1975.

Coming soon, we will have the Uttermost line of Home Furnishings published as well. These will include mirrors, clocks, art, seating, decor, and more!

Accent Lamps

An accent light will add comfort and create a cozy feeling to a small area or a place where emphasis is needed. Do you have a dark corner in your room, which could use a glimmer of light and dress up the area? As decorative mini lamp will help you add a little light to that dark corner. Consider an accent lamp, which would be perfect for lighting a small dark corner, bedside, or as an accent lamp on a dining table. Low wattage, i.e., 40 watts, would make the perfect accent for just about any space. Some table lamps have variable or dimmer controls depending on the model and manufacturer. Typically an accent lamp will not require a dimmer due to the lower wattage. Pictured above, the Sirocco accent table lamp is a beautiful, rich rose bronze and silver color and would blend with many color schemes.

Holiday Lighting

Holiday lighting will add a bit of decorative spirit to your family gatherings! With their bright colors and festive lighting effect, holiday accent lamps and decorative lit stained glass windows would be the perfect addition to your holiday decor. They look perfect on any table, mantle or desk. Holiday lighting is an easy and inexpensive way to brighten up your home for holidays. Find the perfect lighting fixture to add to your existing Christmas lighting and Hanukkah lighting. Adults and children alike will love to help you collect, arrange and place the lighting pieces around the house. Don’t stop there - add a bit of the Holiday spirit to your home or corporate office space too!

Floor lamps in your home

A portable floor lamp can make a statement about you and the style of your home. The utilization of a floor lamp can be a perfect remedy to a dimly lit area, as they take up relatively little space, and can provide adjustable light. With numerous styles and types from which to choose, how do you know which floor lamp is best for your setting? First, it may be helpful to look at the overall style of the floor lamp. Floor lamps typically are available with a traditional style lamp shade, or in a torchiere (uplight). There are also floor lamps with multiple lamps, so you may direct several lights where best suits your lighting needs. Therefore, one of the first choices you may want to consider is the type of light you want for your space.

Floor lamps with traditional lamp shades put off a nice all around light in a space. A torchiere floor lamp provides uplighting, more toward the ceiling, and disperses the light upward. The multi lamp floor light, allows for the directional lighting of several areas in a space. For a traditional floor lamp with shade, there will also be several shade options available. Shades will be made from various materials, from paper to acetate, cotton or silk. The color of your shade should compliment the color scheme of your space. This is also true for a torchiere. The glass shades of torchieres are also available in a variety of colors, textures and sizes. The type of base is another important consideration when choosing a floor lamp. Once again, there are many styles from which to choose. Whether you want the simple “stem” base, or more elaborate decorative base, the styles are endless. Materials of bases can range from metal to wood with various decorative pieces, for example, glass balls, or colorful embellishments embedded in the base.

One last tip - Make sure you look at whether your floor lamp is equipped with a dimmer or 3-way light. It is important to have control over the amount of light you want in the lit area. For evening time, you may want your floor lamp to glow for the perfect lighting effect. If you choose to task in the space, you will want to have a lamp that can provide bright light. A dimmer switch or 3-way bulb will allow you these choices. Floor lamps have come a long way in the past several years. We no longer have to choose one of those cookie cutter lamps from the local discount store which can make our space look like everyone else’s décor in the neighborhood. You are sure to find the perfect choice for your home. Click to browse hundreds of floor lamps now!