If you’re making a list of improvements that will turn your garage into a home workshop, it’s easy to forget about light. That’s not the only upgrade your garage-slash-workshop needs, but lighting is noticeable because it’s hard to ignore for long when you actually get working. Just try to get anything done in a poorly lit room, and you’ll find yourself using your phone’s flashlight for everything.


Often, a garage will only have a single light hanging from the ceiling or stuck to the wall, which probably works fine for those using the room exclusively to park their car and store cardboard boxes of old stuff. If you’re a DIYer looking to get a project going, however, you need some decent lights. Thankfully, Lowe’s has everything you need to upgrade your garage’s lighting.


On the one hand, the best way to improve lighting in your garage is to install one or more overhead lights that offer fine illumination to every angle of your garage. On the other hand, the precision lighting offered by low-hanging shop lights or a clamp light can really put a spotlight on what you’re working on. We tried to represent both kinds of lights on this list while selecting exclusively well-reviewed and affordable models.







Utilitech 4-feet 7,000-lumens LED Garage Shop Light



The Utilitech 4-feet LED Garage Shop Light is a long, thin fixture that illuminates the area directly below it with 7,000 lumens and 4,000K of cool (but not too cool) white light. It can be hung from the ceiling with the included chains and harnesses or mounted directly to the ceiling if your garage doesn’t have that much headroom. Before you get to work, however, make sure you’re not mounting it so high that you can’t reach the chain dangling from the light, as this is the only way to turn the fixture on and off.


While this garage shop light uses tube-shaped LEDs instead of the traditional fluorescent lights, the bulbs are not replaceable. This means that if a light goes dark, you have to replace the entire fixture, which is much more expensive than one oddly-shaped light bulb. If that happens, and you’re tempted to buy the whole thing again, you might want to think about investing in a permanent light fixture with replaceable bulbs. Until then, this Utilitech is one of the cheapest ways to see if you like this style of lighting for your garage.







Utilitech 4-light LED Diffuser Garage Light



What makes this “diffuser” garage light by Utilitech worthy of its place on the list is that it screws into a common E-26 socket. Even if it’s easy to install, the Utiltech can be a bit of an energy hog, as it’s rated for a maximum of 120W. Though it is also available with a max wattage of 30W and 80W, the models that use less electricity also emit much less light.


The 120W version of the Utilitech LED Diffuser Light comes with four arms, each able to rotate vertically up to 90 degrees, each with its own light. Sadly, it’s only available with a 5,000 Kelvin “daylight” color temperature. While this color has its fans, especially as a garage light, not everyone loves it.


At $27 for the four-arm version, the Utilitech Diffuser garage light is downright cheap, and still managed to gather 247 reviews with an average score of 4.7 stars. According to the product description on Lowe’s website, this light is rated by the ETL for damp location installation, so it should be safe to use even if your garage is a little humid.







Lithonia Lighting 4-feet 4,000-lumen Wraparound Light



If your garage is not too big and you don’t want to install too many lights, a wraparound light might be the best choice, as those ceiling fixtures are designed to illuminate as wide an area as possible from a single light source.


Of the many wraparound lights available at Lowe’s, we’ve selected the Lithona Lighting 4-feet 4,000-lumen because it’s a whole 48 inches long, can can reach a maximum brightness of 4,000 lumens, and can be set to three different color temperatures: warm white, cool white, and “daylight” (a slightly blue-tinted white). Unless you’ve already decided which color temperature you want your lights to be, having the option of changing one without replacing a fixture is really important. Some people really hate when the light is too cold or too warm for their tastes; if you’re one of them and haven’t realized it yet, best steer clear of expensive light fixtures that don’t let you change the temperature.


The Lithona Lighting is not the cheapest model at Lowe’s, but it’s sensibly priced, at $62 — even though, like other models on this list, we would have appreciated if the bulb was replaceable. As it is, you’ll have to throw out the entire fixture when it stops working.







Kobalt 1,500-lumen LED Rechargeable Clamped Work Light



This next pick assumes you already have the bulk of your garage lighting figured out, since you don’t want to use a clamped work light as your only light. If, however, you’re already satisfied with your overhead lighting, a task light might be the most important addition you could make. There are many kinds of task lights, from big brand tools marketed to mechanics to humble desk lamps. If you’re looking for something extra, a simple clamped work light like the Kobalt 1,500-lumen LED Rechargeable Light is hard to beat for the price.


What makes this light so useful is the combination of portability and adaptability, plus the non-insignificant 1,500 lumens of light generated. The lamp can be folded down and locked for easier storage and transport. When opened, it can be attached to any surface thin enough with the clamp, but the legs can also be locked open, turning this into a freestanding work light.


Since this light is battery operated, there are no messy cables to deal with. The internal battery can’t be replaced, but it claims to last three hours on high and a whole 24 hours on low output. While not comparable to most overhead lights, the rating of 1,500 lumens on high output mode is more than most Lowe’s work lights in this price range offer.












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