Any room in your home is influenced to a great degree by the state of lighting. The right lighting can work wonders, whether you’re trying to kick into productivity and want a bright, energized space, or looking for a soft, cozy place to relax. Beyond its practical usage, lighting can make a room look and feel like something new, improving the design of your house.
In this blog, we’re going to share some top tips from the experts and let you in on how to use lighting to create just the right mood for whenever you’re at home!
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1. Know the Three Types of Lighting
To create a balanced and functional lighting setup, it’s important to understand the three main types of lighting that work together to bring your space to life:
Ambient Lighting (General Lighting): This gives the light in the room its primary source and illuminates the entire space even. Overhead ceiling lights, chandeliers or just recessed lighting can all be ambient lighting. Basic visibility is essential and carries over to the mood of the room as a whole.
Task Lighting: Of course, the name 'task lighting' tips us off to the fact it's lighting a particular area where you're actually doing something, whether that's reading, cooking, or working, for example. Task lighting is any light you use to complete a specific task, such as an under cabinet light in the kitchen, a desk lamp, or a reading light by your favorite chair.
Accent Lighting: Accent lighting is used to brightly use light to bring out something specific in the room, like artwork, architectural detail and/or plants. This lighting brings drama and depth to a space, makes for an interesting visual and draws the attention where it is supposed to go to.
So, by combining these three types of lighting you will get a completely appropriate lighting plan that will help with both functionality and aesthetics.
2. Control your lighting in layers
One of the best ways to add flexibility in any room is to layer your lighting. With multiple light sources at various levels, you can dim or brighten the space depending on what you need—that is, if it's daytime, if it's light or heavy activities, or just how you want to feel.
Tips for Layering Lighting:
Combine Overhead and Task Lighting: Great ambient lighting will come from ceiling lights, or task lighting, desk lamps, provide practical light from well placed pendant over a kitchen island for example.
Use Dimmers: Switch to dimmer switches to adjust light intensity on your light fixtures. With dimmers, you can manage to go from bright and energizing lighting to soft and intimate lighting with a simple turn of the knob.
Add Table and Floor Lamps: There’s as the table lamps and floor lamps provide layers of lighting and inject a cozy welcoming feel. They’re also easy to move and you can change the lighting level where you need it most.
Layered lighting is useful as a tool to create functional illumination, but the lighting can also offer depth—and therefore a sense of dynamism and adaptability—to every room.
3. Think About the Mood You’d Like to Create.
Lighting sets a mood, and different setups can change a room more drastically than most would believe. You can have the light type and color you need to make a room feel cozy and intimate, or bright and energizing.
Lighting for Different Moods:
Relaxing and Cozy: If you want a room to be relaxed and cozy, warm, soft lighting will help achieve that. Bulbs that warm white or amber toned (from 2700K to 3000K) are like watching sunset setting the mood for a relaxing living room or bedroom. Think instead of table lamps with fabric shades, or pendant lights with dimmable features which will soften the light.
Choosing the right lighting temperature and intensity will also set the right mood for any occasion.
4. Choosing Right Fixtures for Style and Functionality
Apart from providing illumination lighting fixtures also bring a good deal of design to a room. Having the right fixtures will compliment your décor and give your home more personality and style. The lighting fixtures themselves can either be sleek modern designs or vintage inspired vandeliers that will speak to your style and ideas.
Fixture Ideas for Every Room:
Living Room: Bringing two types of space in one, for instance, pendant lights (or even a statement chandelier) can make a showy design statement for the living room, and provide both ambient and accent lighting. If you use dimmable chandeliers it's easy to create the right mood.
Bedroom: Bedrooms should do soft, ambient lighting by way of bedside lamps or wall sconces. For some task lighting, adjustable wall mounted reading lights work well to keep the overall feel of the room relaxing.
Kitchen: Task light in the kitchen along with statement pendent lights over your island or dining area. Overall illumination are handled well by recessed lights, while under cabinet lights take care of plenty of light for food prep.
Choose fixtures that serve each space but support your overall style of interior design – this offers a cohesive effect.
Conclusion
One of the strongest forms of influence of interior design is lighting: it can absolutely change the atmosphere of the room and 'functional' potential of the room. We can understand how types of lighting complement different architectural environments, how we can layer our lights sources, and choosing fixtures that fit our décor of interiors design to get a space that is not only functional, but also beautiful to the eyes. Lighting is important, even more than you might think, and whether you want to energize a room, relax after a long day, or get cozy for a dinner. Now, try different lighting techniques and your home will shine on in a new light!
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