Warming Up Your Home With Lighting + Colour
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- 05 Aug 2022
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LIGHTING
One of the easiest ways to warm up your home for winter is to tweak your lighting arrangement. Not only is the lighting in your home functional and necessary, the use of lighting within your home can drastically increase the cosiness of your surroundings.
The right lighting is key to create a comfortable and welcoming ambiance in your home. Too bright and the space will feel off-putting and harsh, too soft and you’ll find yourself squinting through the darkness.
In most home designs lighting is overlooked and we end up with grid patterns of downlights throughout our homes. While functional for some, this is a missed opportunity to bring interesting details into a room, and also to create a layered lighting setup in your home.
Dimmers Are Your Friend!
Having your lights on dimmers offers you the flexibility to change from brighter, task lighting to ambient lighting – literally with the switch of a button. This is especially important if your home consists only of an arrangement of downlights.
If you are not ready to change up all the switches and bulbs in your home to dimmable options, choose those spaces – such as dining and living areas, bedrooms and circulation spaces – where your needs switch from a well lit, task orientated space to one requiring more ambient and low lighting.
Creating Ambiance
Most homes have some form of downlight to all main areas but by decorating with an opulent feature lamp or floor lamp and using the dim light from this source, you can emphasise the ambience in a particular area.
If you think about the lighting in your home, you can consider downlights as purposeful task lighting. The other lamps, such as wall lamps, pendants, tables and floor lamps, are all lighting layers used to bring ambient lighting to a room.
These lamps are where the real fun begins and offers you the opportunity to personalise and bring character to a space.
While this dining area has large overhead lights and task downlights, there is still a side lamp on hand to create ambient lighting in the space. Read More…
