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While on your search for light fixtures, it’s possible you’ve come across fixtures that have metallic, cage-like, wire structures. You may have even found these cages being sold individually to install on other light fixtures. But do you know what these light fixture cages are for? Why are these so important? Is there even a purpose of them at all? Are they all just for show? To clear some things up, our team at Cocoweb has the answers you need to better acquaint yourself wi …

Everyone has their own design style. But if urban design suits your tastes, you might be familiar with midcentury modern. While this design movement was first popular around 1945 to 1975 during urban development, this is very trendy to this day. But because midcentury modern is, well, not modern in today’s book, this is where design can get a bit tricky. In order to pull this interior design style off, you pretty much have to take a blast to the past. Without making things t …

  Our Cocoweb team has some GREAT news: Our light fixtures have officially been certified as Dark-Sky compliant! This is a big step for our company that we are amply proud to announce. Now, before we get into why Dark-Sky compliant light fixtures are important to have, let’s talk about exactly what this compliancy means and what it has to do with light pollution, which is a very real and unfortunate problem our Earth struggles with – and the issue with it only …

September 11, 2018 marks 17 years since the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers and Washington, D.C. Pentagon were hit with a series of intentional plane crashings by Islamic terrorist group, al-Qaeda. In total, over 2,900 victims and 19 hijackers passed away due to this event. Even for the survivors, many later on developed cancer, respiratory conditions, and other ailments believed to be caused by the tragedy. In honor of this day, our Cocoweb team decided to take the time to ed …

Picking out light fixtures for your home can be a bit tricky at times. Apart from the size, design, and placement of a light fixture, what some struggle on their light fixture shopping trip is deciding what color(s) to opt for. Black seems to be the color people are most attracted to when it comes to light fixture finishes. However, many are afraid to venture out to something brighter like white, let alone, any non-neutral color. But instead of settling on black, why not …