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New OptionsFor lluminating The Home By Alecia Wesner (NAPSA)—Trends to watch for today’s modern-style home are energy-efficient lighting and lighting with dimmer options. Eco-friendly LED (light-emitting diode) lights now offer many options and styles. There are also sleek dimmer lights for home or office that allow for easy light adjustment. The examples below are innovative trends in the lighting category: e LEDs are opening up a world of shapes and = : > if colors, changing what many people ) expect from light™ ing. One example is wm the Orten’zia Re- Mm) chargeable Table w LED Lamp by Terzani (www.ylight AleciaWesner ing.com), which can create soft, playful light outdoors. Both fluorescents and LEDs offer many new design applications. There are multitudes of aesthetically pleasing options out there. Take the Anastacha LED Table Lamp (available at www.ylighting.com), for example, which has a compact light source possible only with LEDs and a laser-cut structure that creates floral-inspired light and shadow silhouettes around the base. No longer are designs constrained by the traditional lightbulb! You can make a statement with a versatile light that utilizes a “magical” touch switch feature, which conveniently sets the mood in any room. The Simply Original Accent Lamp and the Park One Light Table Lamp, both from Kovacs, have touch dimmerfea- tures that make adjusting lighting easy. Both lights are available at www.ylighting.com. Alecia Wesner is a lighting designer and consultant for George Kovacs by the Minka Group.