LightingShowroom.com is supplying lighting for a large private home in Maryborough, Queensland, Australia. Rosemary Wickowski, CEO of Light Styles Internet, LLC said “We have been pleased to find a ready market for our services in Australia. We were selected as the lighting supplier for this large traditional styled home because of our ability to deliver an exceptional variety of lighting styles and because of our extensive experience supporting international clients who are building major projects.”

Boise, ID (PRWEB) December 9, 2009 — LightingShowroom.com has expanded its distribution of high quality lighting products into the South Pacific. It has been selected to supply a complete lighting package for a large private home being built in Maryborough, Australia. According to Wickowski, “The company has historically served customers in North America and Europe. We have been pleased to find that our services are well accepted in Australia as well. In these difficult time, we are fortunate to be serving customers who have not been greatly impacted by the current economic situation.”

Wickowsi said, “LightingShowroom.com is one of the top 5 online retailers of lighting products in the US and has been serving a growing domestic and international clientele of discriminating home owners looking for a full service supplier. Our selection as the supplier for the lighting needs of the Australian site is because of our dedication to meeting the customer’s needs and our extensive experience supporting high end domestic and international projects.”

Anita Turner, the Lightingshowroom lead for the project, said “For this project a key factor was our ability to supply lighting styles that are unavailable in Australia.” Carolyn Diaz, the owner of the home said, “We are very appreciative of your assistance, especially since this kind of lighting is just not available in Australia, where mostly modern lighting is provided on the market. We will be so excited to have unique lighting in our home, which is just what we wanted. If per chance our home is featured in any magazine, your name will be there, as I would encourage others to try the same path that we have taken, to get what they want. You have been very helpful.”

Wickowski said, “The foundation of our business is customer care. We offer good value in our pricing, but
attention to detail, meeting the customer needs, and working hard to anticipate and prevent problems is really
what we are about. Value is the combination of quality products, fair pricing, and best in class customer care.
Those are the things we work on all the time.” She commented that “There have been large numbers of websites that have begun offering lighting products since the economic crisis hit us all. Many approach the market with the idea that all you have to do is have the lowest price. We have found that our focus on the entire customer experience brings us loyal repeat customers and great word of mouth support which allows us to remain one of the top 5 lighting retailers despite greatly increased competition and a difficult housing market.”

Contact:
Anita Turner
Light Styles Internet, LLC
208-433-3900
www.lightingshowroom.com

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Lightingshowroom.com is supplying crystal chandeliers for a modern update of the site of Princess Diana’s ancestral home. Rosemary Wickowski, CEO of Light Styles Internet, LLC, said “We were pleased by the selection of LightingShowroom as the supplier for the project as it leveraged our extensive experience serving high end international clients, but long distance support has required some unusual steps to meet customer needs.”

Boise, ID (PRWEB) September 27, 2009 — LightingShowroom.com is one of the top 5 online retailers of lighting products in the US and has been serving a growing domestic and international clientele of discriminating home owners looking for a full service supplier. Wickowski said, “Our selection as the crystal chandelier supplier for a lighting update of the site of the ancestral home of Princess Diana is because of our dedication to meeting the customer’s needs and our extensive experience supporting high end domestic and international projects.” Wickowski said, “Keeping the styling and classical traditions intact while updating lighting fixtures is an interesting challenge.”

Anita Turner, the LightingShowroom lead for the project said, “Color, finish, and style are always the critical factors in any large lighting project. In this case communication about the details was more complicated than usual. This project was to create a crystal chandelier package for a modern treatment of Princess Diana’s ancestral homesite. A key requirement was to maintain the classical traditions and styling while taking advantage of modern crystal technology, design, and manufacturing.” Turner said, “One of the most interesting challenges was getting sample approvals. During the early phases of the process the decision maker was traveling throughout the Mediterranean on a yachting vacation. This required us to coordinate the shipment of samples for arrival at a series of ports of call as the trip progressed.” Turner commented, “The extensive color pallet and crystal quality available in the modern chandelier makes it possible to achieve really stunning effects but sample approval is key. It is amazing that today’s freight and communication systems make it possible to coordinate tasks like that around the world with relative ease.”

Wickowski said, “The foundation of our business is customer care. We offer good value in our pricing, but attention to detail, meeting the customer needs, and working hard to anticipate and prevent problems is really what we are about. Value is the combination of quality products, fair pricing, and best in class customer care. Those are the things we work on all the time.” She commented that “There have been large numbers of websites that have begun offering lighting products since the economic crisis hit us all. Many approach the market with the idea that all you have to do is have the lowest price. We have found that our focus on the entire customer experience brings us loyal repeat customers and great word of mouth support which allows us to remain one of the top 5 lighting retailers despite greatly increased competition and a difficult housing market.”

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Boise, ID (PRWEB) September 7, 2009 — LightingShowroom.com is one of the top 5 online retailers of lighting products and has been serving a growing domestic and international clientele of discriminating home owners looking for a full service supplier. Rosemary Wickowski, CEO of Light Styles Internet, LLC., said “We just finished a project for a large private home and we were getting ready to ship it when Kurt Krause, our FedEx rep, talked to us about going by air. We ship a lot domestically with them but hadn’t considered serving large international orders that way. In the end it was a great solution for us”

Anita Turner, the LightingShowroom lead for international projects said “We routinely ship small international orders by air but in this situation we were dealing with a 16,000 pound delivery of very high end lighting products. We had a lot of worry about loss or damage, customs, duties, and the specter of stacks of paperwork. It was the largest single lighting package we had ever done and the logistics were a major worry. I’m pleased to say that the deal went off like clockwork.” Turner said, “I had assumed that the cost of air freight would simply be too expensive. It wasn’t cheap, but when I looked at all the problems of sending a container by ship it just made sense”.

Kurt Krause, the FedEx Account Executive said, “I knew we could do a good job for them and I was happy to get the chance. It turned out that this was the largest single international air shipment that had ever been sent from Boise.” Krause commented that, “Boise is not a major shipping point for international products so I had to do some extra work to make sure things happened the way they were supposed to, but in the end the combination of Lightingshowroom.com and FedEx made a slick solution for their international client”.

Wickowski explained, “We turned the order over to FedEx on Monday and it cleared customs on Friday and was delivered without incident to the customer the following Monday. Exchange rates and the ability to cut through the complexities of the international paperwork now allow us to compete on a much wider stage than has been possible before this. We look forward to developing the high end international lighting marketplace”.

Wickowski said “The foundation of our business is customer care. We offer good value in our pricing, but attention to detail, meeting the customer needs, and working hard to anticipate and prevent problems is really what we are about. Value is the combination of quality products, fair pricing, and best in class customer care. Those are the things we work on all the time.” She commented that “There have been large numbers of websites that have begun offering lighting products since the economic crisis hit us all. Many approach the market with the idea that all you have to do is have the lowest price. We have found that our focus on the entire customer experience brings us loyal repeat customers and great word of mouth support which allows us to remain one of the top 5 lighting retailers despite greatly increased competition and a difficult housing market.”

About Light Styles:
The Light Styles of Boise showroom, was founded in 1999 and the e-commerce site, www.LightingShowroom.com, was begun in 2005. The combination of the two companies sells residential indoor and outdoor lighting products from major manufacturers. Through the website they are one of the few lighting retailers able to serve both domestic and international lighting buyers.

Contact:
Anita Turner
Light Styles Internet, LLC
208-433-3900
www.lightingshowroom.com

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Boise, ID (PRWEB) August 30, 2009 — LightingShowroom.com is one of the top 5 online retailers of lighting products and has been serving a growing domestic and international clientele of discriminating home owners looking for a full service supplier. Wickowski said “Our selection as the supplier for what is to be one of the largest private homes in Scotland is because of our dedication to meeting the customer’s needs and our extensive experience supporting high end domestic and international projects. Wickowski said, “The project has been designed to be one of the country’s most environmentally friendly buildings, a true zero-carbon home for the 21st century using modern methods of construction and the latest renewable technologies.”.

Anita Turner, the LightingShowroom lead for the project said “This will be one of the largest lighting orders we have shipped internationally. It will include some of the finest crystal chandeliers made today and is expected to total up to 150 major pieces lighting all areas of the home. It will be a lighting package designed to support the classical elegance of the overall development with a number of items modified by our staff to meet the special needs of this project. ”

Turner said “This project is unique for us as it will require bringing together products from a number of different manufacturers with varying fulfillment schedules and customization needs. All of it must be inspected, customized, assembled, and packaged on a time sensitive schedule. Custom crating and packaging is required and all of it must be shipped by air with customs clearing and duty considerations to meet the building schedule in Scotland. All of this service is provided as part of our goal to meet customer needs and to be sure that they are completely satisfied.”

Wickowski said “The foundation of our business is customer care. We offer good value in our pricing, but attention to detail, meeting the customer needs, and working hard to anticipate and prevent problems is really what we are about. Value is the combination of quality products, fair pricing, and best in class customer care. Those are the things we work on all the time.” She commented that “There have been large numbers of websites that have begun offering lighting products since the economic crisis hit us all. Many approach the market with the idea that all you have to do is have the lowest price. We have found that our focus on the entire customer experience brings us loyal repeat customers and great word of mouth support which allows us to remain one of the top 5 lighting retailers despite greatly increased competition and a difficult housing market.”

About Light Styles:

The Light Styles of Boise showroom, was founded in 1999 and the e-commerce site, www.LightingShowroom.com, was begun in 2005. The combination of the two companies sells residential indoor and outdoor lighting products from major manufacturers. Through the website they are one of the few lighting retailers able to serve both domestic and international lighting buyers.

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 www.LightingShowroom.com, a leading lighting e-commerce site for home lighting products, is expanding its distribution from its traditional market, the US and Canada, to begin offering lighting products to England, Scotland, and Ireland.

Boise, ID (PRWEB) August 23, 2009 –Rosemary Wickowski, the CEO of Light Styles Internet LLC, commented that “The Lightingshowroom.com website, www.lightingshowroom.com, is one of the top lighting destinations on the web making Light Styles a premier distributor for home lighting products nationally.” She said, ” We have had an increasing level of interest from international buyers in the past year and currency exchange rates have made it possible for us to compete successfully for large international jobs. We have been able to sell high end products directly to Europe and we plan to expand our support for those upscale markets”.

Anita Turner, customer care lead said, “Over the years we have handled quite a few international orders so we have developed the expertise to deal with the problems posed by such things as customs, duties, taxes, and so on. The kind of complications that keep most US based home product retailers from serving the international market.” She said, “I wouldn’t call it a boutique business because the projects tend to be fairly large but it is a market segment that requires special expertise. We work with the manufacturers to make certain that the products are configured for the proper electrical systems, for example, just one of the issues we face. We also do extensive inspections, packaging, and crating so that we don’t get products half way around the world with problems.”

Wickowski said, “The move to advertise our products in the UK allows us to leverage some unique skills and experience we have developed in dealing with large or complex projects and builds on the experience we have supporting large domestic projects.”

Wickowski said “The foundation of our business is customer care. We offer good value in our pricing, but attention to detail, meeting the customer needs, and working hard to anticipate and prevent problems is really what we are about. Value is the combination of quality products, fair pricing, and best in class customer care. Those are the things we work on all the time.” She commented that “There have been large numbers of websites that have begun offering lighting products since the economic crisis hit us all. Many approach the market with the idea that all you have to do is have the lowest price. We have found that our focus on the entire customer experience brings us loyal repeat customers and great word of mouth support which allows us to remain one of the top 5 lighting retailers despite greatly increased competition and a difficult housing market.”

About Light Styles:

The Light Styles of Boise showroom, was founded in 1999 and the e-commerce site, www.LightingShowroom.com, was begun in 2005. The combination of the two companies sells residential indoor and outdoor lighting products from major manufacturers. Through the website they are one of the few lighting retailers able to serve both domestic and international lighting buyers.

Contact:

Anita Turner
Light Styles Internet, LLC
208-433-3900
www.lightingshowroom.com

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The chandelier may be the oldest form of decorative lighting, marking its earliest appearances in medieval churches as suspended wooden crosses from which candles were mounted. As time went on, it was discovered that natural rock crystal helped reflect candlelight to illuminate larger areas. As crystal became more commonly used to ornament light sources, the crystal chandelier evolved from functional to aesthetic, and eventually became symbols of wealth and power.

The development of lead oxide glass in the 17th century changed chandeliers for ever, as it was much softer and easier to cut than natural crystal - and much more brilliant. To this day we use the word ‘crystal” for this lead glass. The new innovation allowed more intricate designs and enhanced the light-scattering properties of the ‘crystal’, encouraging artisans the world over to create the magnificent and varied styles of crystal chandelier we see today.

Crystal Grades
Strass® Swarovski Crystal
Regarded by industry leaders as the finest crystal in the world, Strass® is noted for its incredible clarity and internal flawlessness. Strass® crystals are composed of over 30% lead and are cut by machine to achieve technical perfection; their razor sharp facets meet precisely at one focal point to achieve peak refraction and an optically pure prism. Each crystal is then polished by hand, given an optical coating to resist dust accumulation, and finally laser inscribed, giving each piece the Strass® mark of excellence.

Swarovski Spectra® Crystal
Manufactured in the Austrian Alps through the same process as the Strass® crystal, but without the optical coating. Spectra® offers both design appeal and quality for the crystal connoisseur looking for a great value.

The recent purchase of Schonbek, the leading crystal chandelier manufacturer, by Swarovski, the consummate crystal source, brings together the best of both worlds for truely state of the art crystal beauty.

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Lighting is a great way to make your house a home, while increasing the value instantly. In today’s market, you frequently see the same lighting fixtures in every home; the basic, low end, hardware store lighting that builders purchase in bulk to save a buck or two. While they certainly serve a purpose, they just don’t add any “pizazz” to your home.

Lighting should be planned to compliment your lifestyle. The right ceiling lighting will help you preform tasks more easily, while making you feel safe and comfortable, allowing you to enjoy your home to it’s full potential. Lighting adds beauty and drama to any space; it can make small rooms appear open and airy, and larger rooms cozy and inviting. A crystal chandelier can create a stimulating atmosphere for a night of entertaining, or a quite feeling of relaxation after a long and tiring day.

And don’t forget the outside! With path and spot lighting, you can make your home the showplace of the block! Outdoor light fixtures are a wonderful way to showcase your home and landscape design. From the elegant coordinating fixtures to compliment to lights on your home to whimisical decorative lighting, the selection of low-voltage lighting has grown considerably in recent years. Low voltage lighting is is a simple way to add value to the outside of your home and it is relatively easy for the do-it-yourself weekend project.

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Shopping for a new, beautiful crystal chandelier is only part of ensuring a successful purchase. It is also essential to ensure that the chandelier is the perfect size for the room in which you plan to place it.

Estimating size based on another piece of furniture is often the easiest way to select a chandelier’s dimensions. This works well if you already have the piece of furniture that the crystal chandelier will be positioned above. For example, if you are placing the chandelier over a table, the table will be able to dictate what the appropriate size range is going to be based on its size and your individual taste.

If you have yet to pick out the furniture the crystal chandelier will hang above or it is going to be placed in an entryway or grand room, measuring is the best way to go. Luckily, there is a well-known rule of thumb on how to estimate for size:

Step One: Start by measuring both the width and length of the room in which the chandelier will be placed.

Step Two: Once you have the measurements, add both numbers together. Remember, add both numbers, and don’t multiply them. You are not trying to find the area.

Step 3: Take the number you get by adding the length and width together and then use this answer in inches. This number is the diameter (in inches) of the crystal chandelier appropriate for your space.

Here is an example by the numbers. If you have a room that measures 10 feet by 11 feet then you would add the two number together (10 + 11 = 21) and then instead of 21 feet, use it in inches, so 21 inches. Therefore, 21 inches is the diameter of the chandelier that would fit properly.

Step 4: Purchase your new crystal chandelier!

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In the retail world, it is important for the customer to know if the retailer they are purchasing from has integrity. With online retail, the absence of face-to-face contact makes this fact even truer than ever. To reap the benefits of selection and price available only online while still protecting oneself, customers must keep an eye out for retailers without integrity. To help with this, here are certain things that all customers should expect from a lighting retailer with integrity.

Reliability: Knowing that an order for a crystal chandelier will arrive in just as timely a manner as a few small pieces of bathroom lighting is reliability. A retailer with integrity won’t be willing to lose their reputation over any transaction, no matter what its size.

A Relationship: The idea that every customer is a client is what a lighting retailer with integrity abides by. With the right lighting merchant it doesn’t take a bank breaking purchase to make a customer feel like they are getting top-notch service. When a trusting relationship is built between a retailer and a customer, they both win.

Responsiveness: Top lighting retail stores will respond to customer input and feedback as soon as possible. The first transaction could always be the last. Quality lighting retailers know this and take steps to make sure that everything goes perfectly on each order. If something is amiss with a pendant lighting order for example, they work immediately to fix it.

Satisfaction: A satisfaction guarantee means that if the customer isn’t happy with their purchase before a specified date, the retailer will do everything necessary to fix it or accept the return if that is what the customer requests. Quality retailers stand behind their guarantees; other don’t.

Whether it is a purchase of a big crystal chandelier, or a small order of ceiling lights, don’t accept anything less than integrity and kept promises from your online lighting retailer.

Popularity: 38% [?]