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Puck lights are round or oval and are good for cabinet and display lighting. Puck lights can create scallops, spots, or pools of lighting instead of even illumination across the counter top. Linear lights can come as a light strip or as a linear fixture or light bar. Linear fixtures resemble small puck lights on one mounting strip.
A common dual dimmer module used in stage lighting A dimmer. A dimmer is a device connected to a light fixture and used to lower the brightness of the light.By changing the voltage waveform applied to the lamp, it is possible to lower the intensity of the light output.
Kitchen triangle between fridge, stove and sink. The areas of a kitchen work triangle is a concept used to determine efficient kitchen layouts that are both aesthetically pleasing and functional. The primary tasks in a home kitchen are carried out between the cook top , the sink and the refrigerator .
A fixture using replaceable light sources can also have its efficiency quoted as the percentage of light passed from the "bulb" to the surroundings. The more transparent the lighting fixtures are, the higher efficacy. Shading the light will normally decrease efficacy but increase the directionality and the visual comfort probability.
[196] [197] IKEA claims to use 99.5% recycled or FSC-certified wood. [198] However, IKEA has been shown to be involved in unsustainable and most likely illegal logging of old-growth and protected forests in multiple Eastern European countries in recent years. [196] [199] [200] IKEA is the world's largest buyer and retailer of wood. [196]
The double-file kitchen (or two-way galley) has two rows of cabinets on opposite walls, one containing the stove and the sink, the other the refrigerator. This is the classical work kitchen and makes efficient use of space. In the L-kitchen, the cabinets occupy two adjacent walls. Again, the work triangle is preserved, and there may even be ...
Early home automation began with labor-saving machines. Self-contained electric or gas powered home appliances became viable in the 1900s with the introduction of electric power distribution [3] and led to the introduction of washing machines (1904), water heaters (1889), refrigerators (1913), sewing machines, dishwashers, and clothes dryers.
Inter IKEA Systems B.V. is a holding company fully owned by Inter IKEA Holding and thus Interogo Foundation. It is the company that legally owns all of the IKEA brand's intellectual property (logo, word, trademarks, etc.). [14] Inter IKEA Systems is the IKEA franchisor. The company releases guides and manuals of various parts of the IKEA brand.