Lighting Design Tips for Every Room

Posted by Matt Bissinger on March 2nd, 2020

Good home lighting is truly everything. It affects a room’s ambiance and mood of space while reflecting your unique style. Finding great, high-quality artisan light fixtures that meet your needs and show off your home decor creativity is just the first step. Knowing where to place them and deciding how much light is needed helps you create a nuanced lighting scheme that perfectly sets the scene.

Our Favorite Lighting Design Tips

All good home design starts with a plan and lighting is no exception. Starting from scratch? Create a lighting plan that tackles the basics before making any purchases. For example, think about:

• The activities that take place in each space, be it relaxing, working, or eating.
• A room’s key features you want to highlight.
• Architectural elements that may affect illumination.

Once you have the basics pinned down, visit your favorite home decor stores to get a sense of what styles, scales, materials, and lighting output appeals to you and fits your needs. Then head back home and look at your rooms with an eye towards incorporating the pieces you fell in love with.

Kitchen Lighting

Layers of light in the kitchen turn it into a welcoming space for friends and family. The ambient, task and accent lighting create a cohesive look that adds illumination for tasks and entertaining where needed. The best-lit kitchens also incorporate natural light sources to add extra warmth.

Dining Room Lighting

Many people hang a chandelier over the dining table and call it a day. General and accent lighting, though, take the room from run-of-the-mill to spectacular. If you love a clean look, try using wall sconces in place of art. This is also a terrific room to use dimmers to create different moods.

Bathroom Lighting

Vanity, tub and/or shower areas all require different light fixtures. Side-mounted sconces are a great option in the mirror, as are pendants for daily grooming routines. Have your heart set on a chandelier in your bathroom? Just be sure to choose one in the right size so it doesn’t overwhelm the space.

Bedroom Lighting

A relaxing and inviting atmosphere is what you want to create here. If you have a ceiling light fixture, integrate low-hanging pendant lights or sconces. Add identical or complimentary table lamps on nightstands to create symmetry.

Living Room Lighting

Be it chandeliers, pendant lights, table, and floor lamps, or wall sconces, nearly every style lighting fixture works in the living room. The best lighting design uses two or more of these options set at different levels. Use accent lights to highlight points of interest, ambient fixtures like chandeliers to cast a warm glow, pendants to create visual interest, and task lighting for reading.

Whether you shop online or in a physical home decor store, finding the right artisan light fixtures for your home can be an illuminating experience that brings years of joy to your life.

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