Choosing Amongst All the Interior Lighting Options Can Be a Hassle

| Friday, October 28, 2011
By Alana Vaughn


Finding the best interior lighting option for your home can be a hassle. In the past, there weren't many options to choose from but in recent years that has changed. The increase in options makes it more difficult to find the best option for your home. Do you want track or bulb lighting? What kind of bulbs do you want, halogen or fluorescent? Researching will help you find which option is the best for your home. Here are some things to help you in your research.

Don't settle for just any old light bulb or lamp! You have plenty of better options to choose from! How are you supposed to figure out which of the lighting options in front of you are best? These are some things that you need to think about when you start to put together the lighting plan for your house.

You won't have to worry about buying too much of one type of light and not enough of another. How big of a space do you need to light? Small rooms require less light than big rooms. A small room (like a 10x10) only usually needs a single lamp. A larger room, especially one that you want to light completely, will need more than one source of light. A small, focal, light will usually do the trick if your only concern is lighting a small area. If you want to light the whole room you could choose to use some overhead lights or some very powerful floor lamps.

Many people enjoy shopping discount stores like IKEA for their lighting options. IKEA sells everything from flooring to bedside lamps that are beautiful and affordable. For those who want to, it is possible to buy all your lighting options at IKEA. Be careful about choosing this option because the lamps and other light fixtures that are sold here are not compatible with typical American bulbs. If you purchase their products, you will also have to purchase light bulbs from them. If you have no plans to move to a non-IKEA served town, you'll be fine. Of course, you can always buy the bulbs on the internet if you move away from IKEA.

Choosing interior lighting options can be quite a challenge. It didn't use to be so challenging to put together your own lighting plan. Overhead lights and lamps used to be your only options. You had a choice between fluorescent and incandescent bulbs. White light was your only choice. There are plenty of different options available today for people who don't like the idea of either of these choices. Of course, trying to choose between them all can be hard. Take some time to think about all of the options before you build your plan and start shopping. You'll thank yourself for doing this later.




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