Perks for Holiday Celebration

Brain-cracked on how to spice up Christmas celebrations without boring your family and/or guests?

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Perking up a gathering and make it memorable may be a nerve-racking task especially when it'll be your first time to do the planning and/or when your ideas have all been used up. But by introducing another activity to the family and guests, this avoids celebrating the holiday season in a routinely-dining-only-manner.

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Good news! There are simple activities to help you plan for the upcoming holiday celebrations!

To do this, you can either start a tradition/activity to pass down to your family members like eating a cake for Jesus in Christmas morning or do secret acts of service for each other and/or that someone who has been done with a certain good deed should either give an exchange gift back to the person or pass the service to another. 

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You can also introduce a game every year like a couple or two minute to win it games which fills the place with laughter and thrill. Minute to win it games includes hanging Christmas ornaments without using your hands, eat the cookie from your forehead without using your hands, shake off all ping pong balls placed in an empty tissue box, guess the word placed on your forehead & etc.  Minute to Win It Games

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With games like these, you can be sure that all the attendees will focus their attention to the players. They will not only be thrilled whether their bet will win but they also will enjoy the celebration. And having a joyful gathering is something each will look forward to.

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Ambient Lighting

Was there any point in time that you felt bored with your kitchen that you don't want to do anything in it? Probably because there was something lacking with your kitchen atmosphere.

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Ambient lighting, also termed as general lighting provides an overall illumination in an area. Its purpose is to provide an even wash of light throughout a room in comparison with task lighting wherein its purpose is to concentrate light for a specific job. It also helps the inhabitants to walk around the place without tripping on unseen obstacles as well as setting the mood in a room. It can either be from a natural or artificial source.

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The kitchen is the only area in the house where one has to find a versatile lighting system that can function as both task lighting and general lighting. 

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Ambient lighting can be achieved either by chandeliers, ceiling or wall-mounted fixtures (pendant lights, torchieres, suspended uplights), recessed or track lights and perhaps lanterns mounted on the outside of the home.

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Ambient Lighting is the “humanizing factor to any lighting design” because it softens the lines and shadows on people's faces and creates a warm inviting glow in the room. 

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Task Lighting

“Task lighting is fundamentally any lighting that helps to facilitate a particular visual task.” It should be prioritized when it comes to the kitchen since this is essential to preparing food, and misplacing this may hinder your work efficiency specially when your lighting system throws shadows on your workspace. 

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Having a well lit area to work in makes a task more easy. It also helps relieve eye strain when installed properly giving a pleasant working environment What is Task lighting?.

Task lighting is energy and money saving since it can reduce the amount of energy to light an entire room plus the energy saving light bulbs that can be used. Task Lighting

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There are, however two things to consider before setting up your task-lighting system. You'll have to carefully assess that the light (1)does not give a direct glare to the user (2)nor will it cause to cast a shadow on the working space area; also, dedicate light to the specific space or area where you usually do your work. 5 Tips for Better Home and Office Lighting

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Key locations for your task lighting includes underneath the overhead cabinets and over the island-anywhere you'll be chopping, slicing, reading your recipes or anywhere you need the light to be focused. 

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For both underneath overhead cabinets and over the island:

• You can either use a wired or plugged in incandescent or fluorescent lighting. Incandescent lighting offers better light quality but is much expensive while fluorescent lighting does not cast much light and emits less heat and lasts longer especially with bulbs which also uses much less electricity. 10 Kitchen Design Mistakes to Avoid

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• If you choose to use LED lights, which can also be applied, be sure to choose color temperature wisely.

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• Another choice is the use of halogen lights for underneath overhead cabinet. This should also be dimmable, which should be applicable to the other 3 choices for lighting, so as to lessen the use of electricity and help lengthen the life of your bulb. Get the Lighting Right: 8 Mistakes to Avoid

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After purchasing your preferred task-lighting fixtures, you can ask a reliable electrician to help you install properly.

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Table for Suggested Lighting Strategies and Levels by Rooms 

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Kitchen Lighting System

What happens in your kitchen? How much time do you usually spend with your prime kitchen utensils and valuable counter tops?

Lighting system is used to illuminate a place either during the day or night, for working/task purposes and for other purposes. But most of the time if not all the time, lighting system in a certain room especially the kitchen is taken for granted and/or generalized in the sense that as long as where you want to go and where you can work is lighted, that is enough.

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As Scott Gibson stated in his article Light Up Your Kitchen “Bad lighting can take the joy out of a kitchen. It makes cooking more of a chore and discourages people from getting together. Even the finest cabinetry, appliances, and counter tops look dull and unappealing in dim lighting.” As in any other cases, lighting system greatly affects in setting the mood of a certain area.

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According to Randall Whitehead, there are four functions in lighting your kitchen and blending these functions will provide you an effective yet inviting and fun cooking station. These functions or systems namely are your task lighting, ambient, accent and decorative lighting.

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• Task lighting prioritizes key locations for work spaces like underneath overhead cabinets, islands or anywhere you can chop, slice read recipe or need to focus illumination.

• Ambient Lighting is best in softening lines and shadows on people's faces. This also sets a warm and inviting glow in the room.

• Accent lighting is the least common lighting in the kitchen because it may necessitate something to be highlighted.

• Decorative Lighting should be directly proportional to the size of your kitchen. Whitehead also stated that, "You want to make sure that the scale of the fixtures is right for the space, and that the shade material has enough opacity to effectively hide the light bulb."

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