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Guide To Home Lighting Design

When you need more lighting for any space in your home or even your office, you need to know what kind of lighting options you have to choose from, as they are not all the same. You should know more about home lighting design, and others to be able to make a good decision.

One of the main ways that people design an interior lighting scheme for their house is to consider the particular activities that will take place in the correlating areas and then choose lighting appropriate for those activities. After this is done, then general ceiling lighting is added in addition to the specialty lighting of each room.

I propose looking at a lighting scheme aesthetically from a vertical perspective. Imagine walking into each room and the lighting options available to you as you enter the room.

Perhaps there's a decorative piece of sculpture or artwork hanging on a way. This would be a great application of a single directional light that can be triggered by a single dimmer switch on the wall.

In addition to the art work there is a large dining room table. Another switch turns on and off six directional lights that are aimed straight down over the eating places around the table.

Then there is a band of indirect lighting surrounding the entire room. This lighting is hidden by paneling so that the light reflects upwards hitting the ceiling where each wall rises to meet it. This lighting too has its correlating dial on the light panel by the door.

Then imagine the other activities that will be taking place in that room, but think vertically. For example, if you will be reading your newspaper in the room, it makes sense for there to be a seated level light source, rather than a standing level light source.

Mentally walk around each room and think of the lighting effects that you would like to be able to control from the doorway as you enter. If there is a particularly large area, consider where you will place lighting so that you will be able to safely cross the area to other sides....

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