Style
Depending on how you use it, lighting can be an effective way to show off your personal design taste. Like any kind of design, good lighting should be used to subtly communicate certain ideas. One way in which this can be done is by using light to create focal points in the room. These should draw attention to key features of the room, such as d'ecor. Depending on your tastes, there are countless different choices you could make.
Different placements, colours, luminaries and more can be used in coordination with the rest of the interior design to really show off your style. Often, many of these are afterthoughts when a house is built, leaving it with lighting that is functional at best and ugly at worst. Why settle for someone else's lighting design when you can redo it to suit your style.
Functionality
Good lighting is important to the functionality of a space. You need lights in a space to be well suited to the activities being done in that space. A kitchen, for example, needs certain places to be well lit to make cooking safer and easier. This concept is called task lighting and has to do with lighting an area to help with accomplishing a task. There are many things that are taken into account when designing task lighting such as what's being done in the space, when it's being done and how long it's being done for. By utilising task lighting with these considerations in mind, you can get better use out of the various spaces in your home.
The Illusion of space
Ample lighting in a room can make the room feel more spacious. On the other hand, a room that is poorly lit can feel small. That isn't to say that every room needs to be as bright as possible, but it's undeniable that lighting can make a room feel bigger. This illusion of having more space makes a big difference to how the room looks and feels. If some of the rooms in your home feel small, consider the lighting in that room and how it could be changed. It's an easy way to make a significant improvement to a room, especially when there's limited space.
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