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International Women's Day 2023: The Women Behind the Work

On this International Women’s Day, we would like to take a moment to reflect and celebrate all the brilliant women that support the Leatherology brand. We are proud to provide a unique space for this diverse group of women to explore their greatest potential. We seek inclusivity, going beyond creating equal opportunities to embracing true equity through activism in our own brand policies and philanthropic efforts.

Monogram Etiquette 101: The Basics

Monogramming is a time-honored tradition that has been around for centuries. From clothing to leather handbags to home decor, adding a personal touch with monogramming can take any item to the next level. Like anything personalized, there are certain guidelines that can be followed to ensure that your monogram is done correctly and matches your expectations. The wrong placement or font can detract from the overall look of the item.

Leatherology Store Now Open At NorthPark Center

Goodbye for now, DFW! Our pop-up store officially closes on February, 15, 2022. We loved meeting so many of you in-person at our NorthPark Center Pop-Up Store over the past few months. Thank you for your enthusiasm and willingness to add the simply luxury of Leatherology to your everyday wardrobe. Just in time for holiday season and now open for business, shop in-person for your favorite Leatherology styles at our new pop-up store in Dallas at NorthPark Center on the 1st floor near Macy’s.

Common Signs It’s Your Ballast and Not Your Bulbs

How do you know your ballast or driver is toast? You don’t. But there is a good chance your ballast could be the cause of your lighting woes if your lights are dim, buzzing, changing colors, or flickering rapidly. You should check all parts of the fixture, including the bulbs. However when checking the ballast, any burn marks, swollen casing, or (in the case of “ye old” magnetic coil ballast) leaking oils are obvious signs of failure.

Father’s Day Gift Guide

As an early adopter of technology, Dad has to have the latest and greatest in tech gear. You can really raise his eyebrows with the Lutron Smart Bridge for Lutron’s Caseta wireless devices and shades. The Smart Bridge can control up to 50 devices, allowing your Dad to turn lights on or off, dim lights, set lighting schedules, or control the thermostat from the Lutron app. Dad can pull pranks on his buddies, convincing them that his macho abode is haunted by flickering the lights with his Apple Watch.

Earth Day 2016 - If LEDs Lit America

In the future, at its current rate of conversion, 74% of all lighting sales in America will be LED by 2030. According to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), LED lighting installations accounted for $1.4 billion in energy savings in 2014. That’s $1.4 billion in savings while only 3% of lighting in the U.S. has made the switch to LED. If you woke up tomorrow and every light bulb in America had become its LED sibling overnight, it would seem like nearly $48 billion magically rained down from the sky, or in other words, like handing every man, woman, and child, all 321.4 million American citizens, about $149 each in cash.

Long Live Li-Fi or Not

Li-Fi, light fidelity, is the latest in shiny, new technologies to promote bigger, better, and faster. While still in the experimental stages, Li-Fi promises a cheap and cordless way to connect to the Internet using the simple household LED light bulb. The advantages of Li-Fi are like puppies for Christmas, full of wonder and giddy joy, and the preliminary testing results are mind-boggling. So why hasn’t the world gotten on board with Li-Fi? There are several hurdles Li-Fi must leap through before you will find it at your local Starbucks. Put down that WiFi router, there is a discussion in the works.

Major Gains Predicted for Linear and High Bays

1000Bulbs.com is on the forefront of indoor commercial and industrial lighting as linear and low/high bay fixtures are forecasted to have the largest energy-saving probability in 2016. According to a 2015 report issued by the U.S. Department of Energy, linear and low/high bay fixtures account for more than 60 percent of the potential or “overnight” reductions in energy consumption should all lighting be immediately converted to LED.

HELP! My Lights Don't Work

Here at 1000Bulbs, we do our best to answer your lighting conundrums and queries, while preventing foreseeable catastrophes. Many requests for help begin with “my lights won’t turn off”, “don’t dim”, “they buzz”, or “flicker”. While we have addressed some of these topics individually in the past, this article is intended to be an inclusive checklist of common issues. If you find yourself facing a day in the dark, the following subjects could be the proverbial flashlight to your lighting debacle.
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