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Lighting plays a crucial role in every room, but none relies on it quite as much as the kitchen. It's a room that requires functional lighting, but also blends with softer, more ambient illumination.

In most homes, the kitchen isn’t just where you cook, but where you eat, read the paper in the morning, and hang out — and each of those different tasks requires different types of light. So even ...

Q: We plan a simple kitchen update by changing things like the faucet and cabinet hardware. Along that line, is there anything else you can suggest to give our kitchen a fresh look without getting ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Q: We plan a simple kitchen update by changing things like the faucet and cabinet hardware. Along that ...

Clearly, kitchen lighting has come a long way from your mother's day, when a single ceiling fan and light and maybe a light in the exhaust hood were the extent of it. Lighting today mostly reflects ...