Buyer's Guides

Home accents are gaining importance with the need to give the home a more polished look. There are a variety of home decor accessories you can choose from to spruce up your home.

These accessories can convert a rather simple looking area or corner in your home to a stylish and trendy one.

The shape of a lamp shade will help determine the kind of light it outputs and the style of your lamp. Lampshade shapes each have their origin and purpose.

Shades are divided into 4 main groups: Drums, Empire, Bell, and Coolie. Learn more about the types of lamp shades in this guide.

Flush Mount or Semi-Flush Mount lights are likely the most common close-to-ceilign lighting fixtures in your home.

Close-to-ceiling lights are natural choices for closets, hallways, and small rooms. Just because you don’t have the space for a large, elaborate light fixture, doesn’t mean you have to settle for plain, boring lights.

Learn some of the insider secrets to correctly lighting the outside of your house.

Outdoor lighting doesn't have to be complicated, but you need to know where to place the lights and what kind to use, so try this list of outdoor lighting tips.

Finding the right lighting style to suit your budget, your tastes, and your room theme can be challenging. Whether it be a modern trendy style with clean lines or a classic traditional style with ornate details.

Read on to discover how you can establish what your interior design theme should be and how you can make it work.

The lighting and interior design industry have plenty of words and expressions you may not be familiar with.

We've assembled a list of the most common lighting lingo to help you understand what you need to know as you become an educated lighting customer.

Bring back the glory of past decade lighting fixtures with vintage style lighting. While many of these styles are no longer produced by lighting companies, LampsUSA offers various vintage lighting products and accessories to choose from at affordable prices. Many lighting companies are seeing the value of bringing back the days of past lighting trends, and some of them even go so far as to preserve and restore vintage lighting products.

A dining chandelier greatly affects the atmosphere in your dining room. Through a well-chosen dining room chandelier, you can create the mood you want for family meals and gatherings.

Choosing a dining room chandelier can be hard, so we made this guide to help you.

CFLs perform best in open fixtures that allow airflow, such as table and floor lamps, wall sconces, pendants, and outdoor fixtures. For recessed fixtures, it is better to use a reflector CFL than a spiral CFL since the design of the reflector evenly distributes the light down to your task area. If a light fixture is connected to a dimmer or three-way socket fixture, you'll need to use a special ENERGY STAR qualified CFL designed to work in these applications. Make sure to look for CFLs that specify use with dimmers or three-way fixtures.