Dominion Electric Lighting Blog

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

10% Off Coupon

Here is our coupon featured in this month's Chesapeake Home magazine. I thought I should share it with our Social Network friends! You are welcome to print it off and bring it in to any of our 3 showrooms.



I love these simple drums from Progress Lighting. You know we love our drums here, and some of them can get quite fancy, so these are a nice, plainer option.

Monday, August 30, 2010

Emerson St. Croix

We've just displayed the Big Daddy of all ceiling fans here in Chantilly! It is a show-stopper, for sure. We've noticed that almost every customer that sees it feels the need to touch it ~ almost like they're petting it! I guess it's just so spectacular, they just have to rub it or something!


The one on display is # CF3300ORH, which is Oil-Rubbed Bronze (but this pewter picture was much bigger and clearer on their web site!). You can see it here:

http://www.emersonfans.com/Pages/Fan.aspx?Fan=St. Croix&Item=CF3300ORH/


And this is a cool shot from Emerson's home page, which also features the St. Croix:


The blades we have on display are B80HCW ~ 22" Hand-Carved Walnut.

Stunning!

Thursday, August 26, 2010

ALA Annual Conference


I'm honored & excited... Eric Jacobson just asked me to be a seminar coordinator at the ALA Conference next month. How fun! I get to introduce Joe Rey-Barreau for his "Ultimate Kitchen and Bath Lighting" seminar on Wednesday 9/22. I'm curious, how many of my industry friends are planning to attend the conference?


Joe is a great speaker, with an amazing amount of knowledge about lighting and design. If you've never heard him speak, live or on an ALA seminar, you are really missing out. So come to the convention and catch your chance to learn from the best in our industry!

Home and Garden Tip - Picking the Right Contractor

I thought this was great advice from the Washington Post for choosing a contractor.
http://tinyurl.com/3yf9dwt/

Laurel's 20th Anniversary party

Yesterday we celebrated 20 years since our Laurel location opened back in 1990. We had a great turnout and it was fabulous to see so many customers and vendors!

Here are the pictures I was able to take with my BlackBerry and post to Facebook & Twitter:

This is Stan & Bill from Representations Inc.



Liz from Zanger with Marie from the Laurel showroom.



Debbie from Progress.



And this is a link to the one I put on Twitter:
Patty Jordan w the door prizes at our Laurel 20th anniversary... on Twitpic

And then we had a really fun photo booth, so these are the picture I got taken there!

From left to right: me with my sister Karen (who worked part-time in the Laurel showroom in the early 90's) ~ Marcia (Laurel showroom manager) & Marie (Laurel showroom sales) & me ~ same 3-some, just moved around! ~ Linda Morley (Arlington showroom manager) & me

Good times, good times!

Monday, August 23, 2010

New chandeliers on display

We hung SO many beautiful things last week! I just HAD to share my favorites:

I'm putting my favorite one first today. This is Kichler 42062CMZ. Do you love it as much as I do?



Kichler 42385MIZ. I posted a picture of this one before, but that was when I'd just seen it in their catalog. It's even more beautiful in person. Come visit us & see for yourself!

Kichler 42233CTZ ~ beautiful simplicity


Kichler 42104CMZ ~ kind of funky, but really nicely done




Acess 23632AMB ~ stunning amber glass



Access 23082BS ~ This has a gorgeous Piastra glass, and we have the matching ceiling mount, too.




Visual Comfort CHC1420R ~ another one that is simply elegant




Artcraft SC656CH ~ It's nice to see some interesting new foyer pieces like this one....


... and this one! Hinkley 4576ICZ



Crystorama 9607-AB ~ We have this displayed with the chain, and I believe our Arlington showroom displays it as a ceiling mount. Such nice versatility!




Friday, August 20, 2010

TedMag.com - 2010 Winners

Here's another link to our Enlightening blog award!

TedMag.com - 2010 Winners

tED Magazine Names 2010 “Best Of The Best” Marketing Awards

I am absolutely thrilled to find out our Enlightening blog just won an award this week:

tED Magazine Names 2010 “Best Of The Best” Marketing Awards

Our award was for Digital Campaign:
•Distributor $25-$200M – Dominion Electric Supply, "Enlightening Residential Lighting Blog"

Thank you, NAED & TED magazine!!!

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

WAC LED pucks

We've just placed our stock order for the new LED puck lights from WAC Lighting. We've had one on display for a while, but now think the time is right for us to have them on hand! I think their color quality and brightness are gorgeous! You'll have to come visit us, check them out, and tell us what YOU think! We'll have them in Brushed Nickel, Copper Bronze, and White, with dimmable drivers.


A nice close-up shot from their web site ~
http://www.waclighting.com/USA//


A single shot of the bronze puck.


This is just the driver, which I know isn't pretty, but people often wonder what the "driver" looks like! We're going to start by stocking a 4-light dimmable and a 1-light non-dimmable. You'll have to let us know if you think we should stock other versions!


This is a retrofit unit that we aren't stocking yet, but I thought I should note that it exists! This will change out an existing WAC halogen or xenon puck over to a new LED puck.


Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Tech Railtones

I'm on the eve of vacation and will be out till the 16th, so I wanted to squeeze in one more blog post before I head to the beach! We just installed these awesome new speakers from Tech last week ~ they call them Railtones:









We have them mounted to two "Freejack" canopies in the showroom (they can also mount to monorail track), and then my ipod is hooked into them. We're so excited to have music playing throughout the showroom finally! They can also be tied into a computer, so you could listen to Pandora radio or itunes or even CD's in your CD drive. Pretty neat!