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Get enlightened and accept the fact that lighting plays an important role in our home interior and our life inside it. Humbly and silently it emits its brightness to enhance the décor of our home and create a perfect ambience for pleasant evenings. Lighting has a deep impact on the mood of individuals. The moment you step in, it can set the environment serene with its calmness or make it cheerful by brightness it spreads around. Being a homeowner and home maker we understand the importance of light in our life and how it makes our home warm and welcoming. So today we have brought for you information about lighting and types of lighting to enlighten you. How you can explore and exploit it to enhance the beauty of your home and brighten it, for that you have to get ideas and inspirations from Homify professionals. Switch on the lights and have a look!
There are four common types of lighting we have in our home – general lighting, spot lighting, ambient lighting and decorative lighting. Using the smart combination of all four or selecting what suits your style; we can create a beautiful environment in our home. However, we strongly recommend combining different styles to get the best result and perfect ambience.
The ideal way to light up the house is through natural and artificial light. During days the interior should be flooded with natural light so that there is no need for artificial lighting. But in evenings you cannot avoid switching on the lights.
The characteristic of good general artificial lighting for every room:
There should be equal distribution of light all over.
Vision should be uniform all over the space.
Lights should be placed at an equal interval so that no corner is left in dark.
Usually it comes installed with concealed wires and electrical fittings.
It’s the type of lighting installed to make a stylish statement through light in home interior.
Light is focused to highlight a specific space or enhance the beauty of specific object you want to emphasis.
Its supplementary lighting and we can depend on it to brighten our home.
Apart from the spot it is fixed on, the rest of the space is in shadow.
Spot lights are usually used in dining room, study table, headboard, reading chairs, media room, etc.
Each room and space of the home has its own specific needs when it comes to lighting it artificially. Different light creates different ambience in the space depending upon what we expect from it. Here’s our expectation from lighting to create a perfect ambience in our home:
The living room of our home doubles up the space through which we enter into our home and where we welcome our guests. So it needs to be bright with sufficient lighting and welcoming with warm and vibrant energy.
The dining room is a place where we relax and bond with family and friends over food and gossips. In addition to spot light, we also need a relaxing light here to create a perfect relaxing atmosphere for family time.
In the bedrooms, the lighting should be designed and selected to create a serene and calm atmosphere for rest and rejuvenating sleep.
Select the right lighting and you can artificially create a perfect ambience in each room of your home.
As the name suggests, the main purpose of these lighting is to decorate the space with its presence than illuminate to make it bright.
It’s a pure form of art. Even when not illuminated, the beauty of the light makes the space shine.
They can even be used to create patterns on the walls through it.
It is usually kept in unexpected place to add a surprise element into the space. From floor to ceiling, it can be kept anywhere where your imagination could take them.
The ambient lighting can be divided into direct and indirect lighting depending on the way it is used to illuminate the space.
Direct lighting: It directly illuminates the space with light focus downwards.
Indirect lighting: As the name suggest, this type of lighting usually spread on walls to illuminate the space. Luminous flux is directed downwards (60-90%) or upwards (10-40%) depending upon the style you choose. The illumination is low when it is focused on one point, downwards or upwards and the shadow effect which makes the space special also lacks here.
Mixed lighting: It’s a combination of direct and indirect lighting where luminous flux is distributed downward (40-60%) and upward (40-60%).
Semi-direct lighting: In this type of lighting, the luminous flux is focused upwards (60-90%).
Diffused lighting: In this type of lighting, the luminous flux is distributed downwards (40-60%) and upwards (40-60%).
Choosing the right lamp is important for proper illumination of the interior of your home. Consider these characteristics while buying lamps for your home:
Photometry: It’s brightness to human eyes
Chromatic: Colour of the light
Energy efficiency and energy consumption
Economy of installation
Dimension of the space it will be illuminating
Required and desired lighting effects
Maintenance of lamps and lighting equipments to be used
Impact it will create where it is installed
While designing your home, make space for natural lighting and welcome it with open arm to make your home brighter and happier. Natural lights come with own charm and essence:
It is an efficient and natural way to illuminate space.
It is modern and trendy design for modern home design.
It is more stylish and effective than traditional skylight.
It is an aesthetic way to bring in light into your home through sky.
Good care and maintenance of lamps and lighting is important to make it shine for longer. Note these simple maintenance tips for hassle-free maintenance and longer life of lighting in your home:
Clean the lamps and light bulbs regularly so that there is no layer of dust on them.
Switch off the light when not in use. It will increase the life of the bulbs and lamps.
Check the electrical fittings and installation periodically. For this we recommend you to hire professional to maintain the lighting of your home to keep it shiny bright.
