Monorail Lighting for Your Home: Where Functionality Meets Beauty
The Advantages of Monorail Lighting
In the world of interior lighting, track lighting is popular and often chosen for its functionality and convenience. Compact and streamlined, track lighting is easy to install almost anywhere and can brighten narrow or small spaces. While particularly useful as task or accent lighting, it can be customized to a degree and sometimes be quite dazzling. This may be one reason that monorail systems, a type of track lighting, have soared in popularity in recent years.
Monorail lighting systems are lower voltage systems that are powered through a single junction box rather than as an extension of the home’s electrical system. This allows for greater efficiency and more customizability, such as more decorative lamps, improved beam control, and less intrusive profiles. In other words, a lighting system that fits more easily into your home and life. Monorail lighting combines decorative features, brilliant accents, and eye-catching designs and will draw attention from anyone who walks into room featuring one of these lighting arrangements.
Aesthetic Benefits
Currently one of the more flexible lighting options on the market today, monorail lighting systems are designed to mount to the ceiling via adjustable rather than rigid tracks. The rail can be shaped in virtually any configuration to meet the needs of any space or design scheme for maximum function, flexibility, and aesthetic appeal.
Easy to fit in cramped spaces or awkward corners, monorail systems can elevate your home’s style quickly and efficiently while brightening its darkest corners. We offer attractive satin nickel, gold, bronze, and other appealing finishes for a sleek, sophisticated look. Decorative pendants and fixtures are then used to create the ideal lighting system for visually stunning, one-of-a-kind results.
Compact. Practical. Efficient. Versatile.
Because monorail systems are designed to bend and flex, you can install them exactly where you want them, creating a shaped track that moves along with the bends and curves of any space. These systems can be placed in any corner or cubby in your home or office. You can even install them on a pitched ceiling, replacing the harsh glare of conventional lighting with a gentle illumination designed to give you maximum control over when and how much light is used in a specific space.
With the configurable nature of monorail systems, you can direct light exactly where you want it, giving you control over both accent and task lighting in one convenient and beautiful system. Monorail tracks are also sleek and flexible and replace bulky track lighting heads with sleek, trim heads for enhanced beam control. By adding surface mount or remote transformers, we can trim the track heads even more.
You can even opt for different lights on your monorail system thanks to 2-circuit systems. On a 1-circuit system, a single circuit is used for all fixtures. With a 2-circuit system, separate systems allow for dynamic lighting. You can use pendant and accent heads or other combinations of fixtures for accent lighting, task lighting, or other illumination options with independent dimming and lighting controls and functions.
How Monorail Systems Work
Conventional track lighting systems are part of your home’s electrical circuit, but monorail lighting uses its low-voltage system. This system uses a transformer to lower line voltage, and the power runs through metal shafts. With options for one- or two-circuit systems, you have almost endless customization options not just for lighting but fixtures, too, giving you the ability to turn circuits on and off or dim them separately or together with a single control.
Each monorail system comprises several distinct components, including:
The track or rail, which forms the basis of the system and extends from two to eight feet or longer and can be shortened, bent, or otherwise shaped and altered to meet your specifications
The power feed or transformer, which provides power to the lighting system and is typically surface mounted or remote to accommodate your installation requirements
The light fixtures, which can include directional fixtures, decorative fixtures, pendants, and more, all of which can be used with conventional, LED, or halogen bulbs depending on your needs and preferences
Monorail systems require a certain amount of planning before installation, but the right planning can simplify installation and ensure the spectacular light show you crave. You can choose from a vast array of decorative fixtures, accents, and finishes as well as alter the track to fit those non-traditional spaces and style your system to achieve visually stunning effects.