Lighting fixtures bring your home interior to life.
Lighting gives form and texture to a room, warms a dark corners, highlights a
favorite pieces of art, or create a right mood. Changes in the brightness of light that reflects from
the floor, wall, and ceiling, has an affect on our visual perception of space
proportions. That is why by changing brightness you can "correct" the proportions
and volume of your space.
lighting tricks and tips
To visually expend space in a small rooms you
should increase lighting saturation on the walls by using finishing
materials and wall decorations with good reflective qualities.
To "bring walls together" in a large space use
finishing materials with good reflective qualities on the floor and ceilings
Use
lighting fixtures with "hard light" to eliminate large spaces
Windows, pictures and mirrors tend to open up a space,
make it appear wider
To make a narrow walkway appear wider you should
consider painting the wall on the end of the walkway a lighter color than rest of
the walls. To make an illusion stronger - generously light back the wall
with the lighting fixtures
You can "cut" or visually separate a long walkway with
bright light directed across
Usually ceiling lighting fixtures are placed in the middle
line of the ceiling. In a narrow space this type of positioning will make
interior appear even narrower. For visual expansion shift the line 3 to 4
inches towards one of the wall. By locating ceiling fixtures closer to one of the
longer walls you will visually expand the space
Placing a strait line of the same lighting fixtures on the
ceiling will enhance the perspective of the interior space
To make ceiling appear higher you can do several
things:
The color of the ceiling should be much lighter then the
walls.
Very light floors with reflective surface tend to
visually lover the space. By making floor darker and using a matt finish
on it you will make space appear higher. If you do have a light
floors it doesn't mean that you have to refinish them. For this matter,
placing a nice area rug with colors that are darker than the walls will do the
trick
Lighting
fixtures that direct light upwards will make the ceiling appear higher (on the picture shown
Angela lighting fixture from
our collection of
fixtures for indirect lighting)
Placing crown molding with indirect lighting will
"lift up" you ceiling. (On the picture shown specially designed
Winston crown molding for indirect lighting from our collection of
crown molding for indirect lighting)
Less tolerant to light documents, photography, art
(watercolor, tempera, pastel), tapestries, embroidery and closing made from
natural materials. By norms level of lighting objects like these should be
no more than 50lk.
You can separate living space in to functional
zones not only with furniture or room dividers, but using lighting fixtures
like sconces, table lamps or floor lamps
