Contemporary Home Lighting: Room by Room Lighting Guide
Looking to update your room lighting? Or perhaps you intend to give your home a major overhaul? Here are some contemporary home lighting tips on how to furnish light fixtures for each room of your home.
Hallway
This is the room that gives your home guests their first impression; so creating warm and welcoming is very important. Chandeliers, lanterns, wall sconces, and hanging pendants are appropriate here. By mixing the right type of lighting in your hallway, combined with large mirrors accentuating the effects of the light, you can make a spacious area that is instantly bright and welcoming.
Living Room
Because this is a place where you spend your leisure time, light in this room should be easily functional, controllable while taking into consideration natural daylight and furniture position. A great mix would be track lighting or a ceiling pendant like the Clementine Modern Orange Shade Pendant by Nuevo Living with strategically placed floor-standing uplighters that you can switch on and off if desired. Dimmer switches would also be great where TV screen glare is an issue.
Kitchen
Lighting the kitchen has to be task-oriented and utilitarian. Focused under-cupboard lights pointing down on work surfaces along with recessed ceiling spotlights can create a clean and clinical effect that will perfectly jive with such a heavy domestic work area. If you use your kitchen as a social area as well, consider getting a dimmer option to create a less clinical lighting effect.
Dining Room
This should be a place for relaxation where family and friends can gather for dinner parties and meals. Giving adequate above lighting like track lights or a pendant like the Axis 71 Memory Pendant – Small/Medium/Big/Rectangle by Tango Lighting positioned directly over the table should ensure that the people can see each other during mealtimes as well as their food. And by adding soft floor-standing or wall uplighters, you can create a cozy and ambient effect.
Bathroom
Modern bathroom lights should offer a mix of effects, depending on the layout and mood of the room. Bright, white and clean light like halogen spots creates maximum light. You can also have an exteriorly controlled dimmer switch to create a warm glow when you want to take slow and relaxing bath. Alternatively, when the mood takes you, do away with electricity and use candles.
Bedroom
This is another room that requires a thought and mixed variety of lighting options: wall lights or bedside lamps that you can switch on and off for reading, soft lighting to help you relax and unwind, and tack lighting or bright pendant like the Carpyen Petra Pendant Light by Tango Lighting to help you dress up during the evenings and early winter mornings where there is no natural daylight.