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A personalized guide to lighting your home
Layer Your Lighting!
To keep your room comfortable and tailored to your needs, you will have to create layers of light that can be easily adjusted. Layering lighting refers to the practice of lighting a space using fixtures that fulfill one or more of the following types of illumination: ambient, task, decorative, and accent. Missing any one layer of light as you design your living room can leave things dim, gloomy, and hard to work with. As you plan how to light your living room, use these tips, tricks, and recommendations suggested below, to avoid common mistakes and create a swoon-worthy room.
LIVING ROOM LIGHT FIXTURES STYLES
There are four different types of living room lighting and truly spectacular living rooms use all four in personalized configurations to keep the room stylish and easy to use.
What is ambient lighting? Ambient lighting is the base layer of light and brings a diffuse, all-over glow to the room. It accents natural light and illuminates the spaces between other lighting layers to eliminate dark areas and unflattering and distracting shadows. Generally speaking, living room chandeliers, living room table lamps, and living room ceiling lights are used to create this base lighting layer.
What is task lighting? Task lighting is the lighting layer that addresses the specific needs of any work you and your family do in the living room. Reading, knitting, crafting, and game night with the family are all examples of tasks you may perform in your living room that requires extra directed light. Living room floor lamps, swing arm wall lights, hanging pendant lights, and living room desk lamps are all fixtures that are specifically designed to shine light onto your work surfaces, and many of them are adjustable so you can tuck them out of the way when not in use.
What is accent lighting? Accent lighting emphasizes your personal style by illuminating wall art, family photos, architectural details, and other decor elements of your living room. Living room wall lights, amiable living room track lights, some recessed lighting, and LED strip lighting can all be used to draw attention to unique design elements of your room. Accent lighting can serve functional purposes as well as decorative—for example, LED strip lights positioned behind your television can help reduce eyestrain on movie night!
What is decorative lighting? Decorative lighting mixes lighting and decor to create your unique living room style. Lights that serve ambient, task, or accent functions can also serve as decorative lighting decor, making it easy to find fixtures that fulfill this need while addressing other illumination concerns. Colorful art glass pendant lights are a beautiful example of one-of-a-kind decorative lights.
CONSIDER BULB COLOR TEMPERATURE & PLACEMENT
Light Bulb Color Temperature
The simplest change you can make is to swap out your living room lightbulbs. Making the switch from incandescent bulbs to LED bulbs is a good way to get brighter light in your room since LED bulbs have higher lumen outputs at lower wattages than incandescent bulbs. You should also pay attention to the color temperature of your bulbs—the ideal color range for living room bulbs is between 2700K and 3000K, often called soft white.
Soft white: 2,700-3,000 Kelvin provides a warm yellow tone, creating a comfortable and relaxed atmosphere.
Warm white: 3,000-4,000 Kelvin provides a yellow-white light. While they have warm tones, they are cooler than soft white.
Bright white: 4,000k-5,000K Kelvin provides a neutral white light and may have more blue tones, which is perfect for lively, bright light.
Daylight: 5,000+ Kelvin is considered daylight lighting, and has bright white and sometimes cool, blue tones.
The right light bulbs also make a world of difference, so make sure you choose bulbs that fall into the right color range (2700K-3000K for a warm, cozy feel, or as high as 4000K if you prefer cooler light).
COLORFUL LAMPSHADES for MOOD LIGHTING
An addition worth mentioning…
If you have shaded lamps in your living room, new lamp shades can go a long way to sprucing up your decor. Translucent colored lampshades will let more ambient light out into the room, while opaque shades will help to dim the lighting output of your lamp. As a bonus, new shades can also update older table lamps with a trendier aesthetic that helps you match existing fixtures to your current decor. Leave no detail behind! The DEVIL is always in the details!
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