How to make affective lighting in the living room

The lighting of an area completes a successful decorative effect in a home. The artificial light highlights the areas that surround us and helps us better understand the colors, materials and decorations we chose to have it. Especially for the living room where your guests are welcomed and where the family gathered, the lighting is even more important. Spend valuable time and selected after much consideration the colors, furniture and decoration of your living room, so why not show off the very choosing the correct lighting?




The lighting you use in your living room is determined by the type of activities taking place there. To create atmosphere in the lounge combine hanging and table lamps with different lampshades, floor lamps and wall sconces. And the lighting is more atmospheric use in table lamps instead of transparent white lamps ("Milk").

The biggest little show lounges if you highlight an entire wall of them. You can do this using a hidden little spot lighting or ceiling. But it should be an equal distance away from both the wall and with each other to achieve the desired result. This idea can be applied to highlight walls with interesting materials or designs.
Fireplaces brick or stone can be emphasized by placing hidden lighting in the ceiling above it to achieve a distinctive effect on the whole surface of the fireplace. Use wall spots on each side of the fireplace will pique the attention of those in the room while a source of light and space.

If you love reading or sewing will need an individualized lighting in your living room. Place a floor lamp next to the chair or sofa where you normally sit, but always behind your back. The light will be illuminated by back to front for shade but do not and you do not dazzle.

The paintings can be highlighted with special halogen lamps that will illuminate with bright white light while the artwork will not consume much energy. Large ornamental plants can be highlighted by placing floor lights behind them to delete their silhouette while giving interesting brightening a dull corner of the house.

The windows hosting various collections of objects such as shells or stamps, for example, give special aesthetic space when lit in the right way. For best results use with concealed lighting low wattage halogen bulbs.

Finally, a smart tip to show your living room to move higher up the atmosphere that exists inside outside! Install lighting in the garden, flowers, bushes and water surfaces (pond, pool) that are visible from the living room and will not get enough of it ... big your living room!