Lighting and Recess Trims

For a visual lighting effect choosing the correct recess trim can create a versatile and visually compelling illumination of an area.

You can transform the appearance of your home interior design for more impact and help meet difficult challenges of creating focal points. Highlighting points of interest using the correct trims and cordinating bulbs will bring an elegant, professional look to your home.

Baffles are the most poular and economical residential trims. They are grooved to work and force the beam spread down. They where first introduced because decorators wanting a more decor look to blend well with white ceiling.

Since then more advance trims were introduced. Giving more interior decorating finish choices with more advance designs for maximizing illumination. Helping to prevent hot spots on your ceiling, blending and softening light scalloping.

Cone trims sets the bulb up into the fixture making it less conspicuous. They will tend to prevent the illumination from being the focal point. It enlightens and reflects down. The selection of color trim you use will decide the ambient tone you are trying to achieve.

The polished clear are less noticable, pushing out a warmer and softer illumination. The gold will give a warm accent to the room, works especially well with wood. The black will more fully absorb lamp glare giving you maximum light concealment. Best used for accenting. Warmer antique or pewter coloring will give a soft cool appearance that will blend and coordinate with your home interior decor finishes.

Lense trims are designed to provide a very diffused ambient quality and protects your bulbs. They will meet residential codes for damp and wet locations and closets.

Adjustable type trims are used for accent and perimeters of your room. The most economical are the eyeball trims. They can use reflector or halogen PAR 30 bulbs. Recessed adjustables have tapered baffle to work the light using PAR 30 halogen bulbs. They have a low glare making them less conspicuous.

Gimbal trims adjust and rotates creating more depth and enhances wall accent pieces or murals. Giving a cleaner more low profile look. The scoop wall wash like gimbal trims can enhance by using cut-out reflectors and combining downlighting and wall washing illumination. Using a more focusing illumination on walls or accent pieces.

Wall washers trims are designed to provide uniform ceiling to floor illumination of vertical surfaces with less scalloping on the walls.

Slot trims are great to focus illumination beam directly on picture or wall hangings, giving depth and perception. Has angle recessed socket to give control of beam spread.

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