The Consumer Product Safety Commission also announced a recall of about 50,000 outdoor lighting timers made by Homemaster Inc. of Eatontown, N.J., because of an electric shock danger.

He and Mr. Orsman both suggested finding LED lights that offer a warm-white color temperature of about 2,700 Kelvin, as well as low-wattage fixtures that aren’t blinding. (Mr. Shrader often uses ...

Lights could short and start a fire.” If you’re worried you’ll forget or don’t want to fuss with turning your light display on and off every day, just invest in an outdoor light timer.

The Virginian-Pilot Q. During the holiday season, we put up a lot of outdoor lights, and I noticed that our power bill was higher than it has been. It got me thinking about outdoor lighting in gene… ...