How to Use Lighting to Elevate Your Home Decor
Have you ever wanted to unwind and set the mood in your room by dimming the lights or using a warmer light instead of a bright white light? We often overlook how lighting around us impacts the moods that we are in and how it can contribute so much more than allowing us to see in a dim lit space.
When it comes to creating the perfect cozy house, lighting can be your key feature. It enhances the ambience, sets the mood and overall elevates aesthetic. In this article I will share with you some tips on how to elevate your home decor with a couple simple steps.
Lets Go Over The Basics
When it comes to lighting, it can be a very versatile form of decor to your home. Lighting offers functionality and style, from short lamps to high lamps. However you choose to light your home, there are different forms, each with different aesthetics to enhance your space. Lets take a look at different forms of lighting and how to use them.
- Ambient Lighting: Ambient lighting is also referred to general lighting. This type can come from overhead lights, ceiling lights, big lamps in a living room or even chandeliers. To create an ambience you can try dimming these lights and choose lighting you can control the brightness such as dimming or even changing light temperature such as warm yellow light or bright white light. With lamps such as chandeliers not only can you make a statement with your home decor but you can also add depth and personality.
- Accent Lighting: This mostly used as decorative and highlighting type of lighting, adds personality and can be used as to add focal points to certain areas of your home. Some examples are LED lights, lights around a mirror or entry way, night lights and lamps sun light lamps. Accent lights does as the name implies, adds an accent and an extra touch to your overall home decor.
- Natural Lighting: Natural Lighting is my favorite types. The way the sun hits a certain spot in my living room or watching the sunset and the warm lighting it gives off creates such a cozy ambience in my home. Enhance the natural lights in your home by using sheer curtains or light colored curtains in your living room. A home with many windows can also be used to elevate natural lighting, but if you don't have large or many windows, you can strategically place mirrors to make your space feel big and airy.
- Task Lighting: This is more intentional lighting used for activities or draw focus such as cooking, reading or writing on your desk when its dark. Desk lamps such as this retro table tray lamp, pendant lights, and kitchen lights are examples of task lighting. Using warm lighting for this type of lighting is ideal to create a cozy and inviting environment.
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Using Lighting To Elevate Your Home
Now that we know what type of lighting there is and what they are commonly used for, we can go ahead and talk about how to use lighting to elevate your home decor and create a vibe that is unique to you.
- Layering Lights: To create a vibe in your home, layering lights may be a great choice. This looks like combining ambient and accent lighting, which creates a cohesive and balanced space.
- Light Bulbs: Light bulbs can be used for so many lighting settings. Making sure you use the right lightbulb is crucial when deciding what type of lighting you want to achieve. Warm light bulbs create a cozy and inviting atmosphere. Cool White bulbs gives a bright and neutral lighting perfect for kitchens and bathrooms. There are also smart lightbulbs where you can adjust the brightness and change the color and warmth.
- Colored Lighting: different colors of lighting is a fun way to elevate your home decor and helps set any mood you want making it fun and creative. Using LED lights under a tv, in ceilings around your room, or under wood paneling can change the whole vibe to your home. You can choose any color to enhance your mood, match the current season or used to enhance any special event.
- Statement Lights: Statement lights like chandeliers are elements that can instantly enhance your space bringing functionality and decor at the same time. Whatever style you choose there are lamps that you can choose from. For example this hanging donut lamp makes a statement and is a nice addition to your home decor but also brings a cozy and warm lighting ambience to your space. Take a look at this minimal foldable metal light that adds a touch of retro aesthetic.
However you choose to light up your home and space considered these tips to make your lighting fun and unique to you. Form ambience lighting to knowing what different lightbulbs to use, there are so many options to create a warm and inviting space or a fun and creative ambience.
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Conclusion
Some key point to take away from this article:
- Lighting is not just about functionality but about enhancing the space and environment around you.
- There are different types of lighting to create a mood and aesthetic unique to you.
- Using statement light pieces such as chandeliers, or lamps with minimal or bold designs are home decor that not only enhances your already existing home decor but also brings a refreshing and new touch to your home.
- Don't be afraid to use color to elevate your home, using bright and colorful lights can change up and elevate your home decor like you never knew.
Have fun decorating your space and take your home decor to a whole different level!
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