Lighting is a main element for any comfortable home. It enables you to move around safely at night. But on a decoration level, it gives mood to your rooms.
Here are some creative interior lighting ideas for your home which can help to create the desired ambience and enhance the beauty of your home.
- Highlight unique features
You can use a low-level lighting set into the floor for illuminating some great interior features like an exposed stone or brick. The light and shadow thrown across the uneven textures can be visually appealing and spectacular. Staircase is the another main design element which can be accentuated by focused lighting. Products set into the wall at the level of stairs can throw a light across the treads and can create an extremely dramatic effect at night.
- Subtle lighting
In basements or rooms in buildings which are cut into hillsides, little natural light is available. So owners need to be creative. If they are installing a home cinema, they do not want any natural illumination. Instead, they need luminance in very low levels in discreet locations.
The design of hidden fittings in recesses at the edge of a ceiling plane, or using a lighting coving or dropped pelmet, can lead to very dramatic effects, especially if you control them with a dimmer switch. It also creates a sense of floating light without any direct glare and this suits such kinds of spaces well.
Hiding fittings in recesses is a remarkable idea for shelving, where spotlights can throw pools of artificial illumination onto units which proudly display a particular picture, artefact or certificate. You can use the above approach for your basement pool. The floating ceiling plane where the light is coming from an invisible source, can feel as if it is being borrowed directly from outside – even though you are below ground level.
- Flexible lighting
Electric illumination can make a space feel bigger or smaller. One attractive option is to fit easily controllable switched banks of lights that can blend the level and number of fittings which are on or off.
To make rooms seem bigger, you can use reflective materials like tiled floors and mirrors to bounce light around your home’s internal spaces. You may want to focus light on a specific piece of sculpture or art for drawing the eye through a space, making it feel larger.
- Practical lighting
You may need high levels of illumination for particular tasks. As an example, strip lighting under cabinets in kitchens is quite effective for washing brightness over preparation and worktop areas. Meanwhile, artists operating from home often want to use daylight bulbs which give a better coloring to see artwork. They are also excellent for lifting moods.
Directional spotlights and even lamps having lenses which can be focused from broad to narrow beams, are available for use where you may want to highlight a specific feature within your home.
These best interior lighting ideas from Comfy Home Corner can help you create the perfect ambience and enhance the looks of your home.