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The Art Of Illumination |
| How enlightened is your living room? If it isn't aglow with well-designed lighting, its decorative strength is likely in the dark. Like no other design element, light defines space and grants it character. Good lighting is essential in creating a dynamic, highly functional atmosphere. With the flip of a switch, light can make a room appear larger or smaller causing the same space to appear warmer and welcoming or cooler and reserved. In the living room, as in other areas of the home, light performs both practical and decorative functions. By recognizing these functions, the type of light that achieves them, and many ways to orchestrate light throughout your living room, you can wash your room in high-voltage style. By merging natural, ambient, task, and accent lighting into your living room, you'll have a space that not only works well but it is brimming with personality. |
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The simplest source of illumination is natural light. Harnessed indoors, sunlight can wash a living room with ever changing character throughout the daylight hours. The amount of natural light enjoyed by a room is restricted by the dimension and direction of the windows. However, you can make the most of the light coming in by keeping the windows unencumbered by heavy dressings and amplifying the light with reflective surfaces. Ambient or general, lighting provides an overall level of light in the room and can be created by a number of manmade sources, including overhead fixtures, torchiers, wall sconces pendant fixtures and decorative table lamps. Combining any number of these affords a stylish way to fill the room with the basic illumination needs in areas where specific activities like reading, writing cross-stiching, and playing board games take place. Reading lamps and focused pendants serve these work oriented requirements. |
Finally, accent lighting is predominantly decorative and is used to shape the ambience of the room by highlighting notable architecture, art and special features in the room.
In order to understand good lighting, you must recognize its purpose. It does much more than simply eliminate darkness and prevent you from tripping over the ottoman. It highlights architectural and design details, facilitates comfortable movement through the living room, brightens work areas and affects the view indoors and out. Simply put, it enhances the aesthetic and functional qualities of the room.
Creating well-design lighting can be compared to executing a fine oil painting. The living room is the canvas and the light, like richly colored paints, is applied in layers that combine to create a single statement. No one layer of light, or paint for that matter, should detract from the finished work. Instead, each should compliment the other.
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