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Home Lighting

floor and table lamps

hurricane lamps

wall sconces

chandeliers

lanterns

fixtures for indirect lighting

candlesticks and candelabras

 


lighting and space

mood lighting

lighting and color

lighting and emotions

selecting and positioning lighting fixtures

colored lighting

built-in lighting

 

 

Lighting and Shape

 

lighting to define

More than any other single home design element, lighting gives form and shape to space. The way we see the shape of an object depend on brightness of it's certain parts and on it's shadows distribution. This is means that lighting can manipulate the visual shape of an objects. Lighting can make any interior object appear bigger or smaller, sharper or less defined. The important thing here is to choose the right angle of projected light. If a voluminous object is illuminated from all sides it will appear flat. This is because when light of same intensity comes from all sides objects tend to visually loose volume.

lighting to enhance

Balance plays an essential part in the lighting of the home. The best results in a home interiors are achieved using a combination of direct lighting and indirect (or reflective) lighting. The combination of this two types of light is very important.

lighting

For example, when working on displaying objects such as human statue that has a very define forms, deep relieves, more important role will play a soft reflected light.

 

lighting and shape

On the opposite side, if you are displaying large volume object like round jar, for example, the strong direct lighting will play a more important role

Using lighting fixtures that give direct lighting it is necessary to avoid unwanted shadows, that can change the shape of illuminated object as well as the shape of interior in whole

Inconsistently illuminated surface gives an impression that different parts of it are located on different levels

Experimenting with lighting fixtures that provide different types of lighting (soft, hard, direct, indirect, up light or down light) you can create a variety of lighting dynamics in your home interior

 
 
 
 
 


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