Planning Your Next Home - Exploring Your Indoor Lighting Options

| Thursday, October 27, 2011
By Alana Vaughn


There are a lot of different ways to decorate your house. You can decorate with paint on the walls, art hangings, sculpture and other forms of decorative items. Rugs, furniture and even your window treatments can be used in your decorating scheme. Did you know that you can also decorate your home with lights? The indoor lighting options on which you decide will say an awful lot about you. The days when you use overhead lights and table lamps are over. Today the number of lighting options out numbers the number of buyers. How can you decide which lighting options you should buy?

Should you use specialty lighting in certain areas? Are special switches needed, or do the lights need to be lower? Do you need special types of light or maybe dimmers? The type of light you have in your home may be helpful if you have disorders like Seasonal Affective Disorder. You should also consider if you need to accommodate anyone with special needs. Someone who is paraplegic, for example, would need to have his or her light switches located lower on the wall or have a remote control that is easy to reach. Are these things that you may need? Your lights need to meet any special requirements you may have.

You won't have to worry about buying too much of one type of light and not enough of another. What is the size of the space that you want to have lit? A large room will need more light than a small room. A small 10X10 room probably only needs a lamp or two. A larger room will usually need more than a single source of light, especially if you want to make sure that the entire room can be seen. If your main concern is only a small area, you can use a focal light. You can use overhead lights or good floor lamps if you want to light up an entire large room.

The ultimate lighting for kids' rooms is different from that needed for adult rooms. This can make them much more pleasant to beautify. It is beneficial for a small child to have lots of lighting - including night lights, bedside lamps and overhead lighting. You can also purchase a light that rotates and shines objects and pattern up on to the walls. At the same time, you want the room to be illuminated enough to work well for art projects, homework and other stuff during the day. You'll need to pick up desk lamps, reading lights and more if your kids are a bit older.

There are a lot of different indoor lighting options that you can choose from when you want to light your home. Instead of going with the typical overhead light or simple reading lamps, try to think outside of the box. Of course you want your lighting to be function able, but remember to make it beautiful as well. Why not have some fun and show some personality with all of your lighting choices? Remember to do your research and in no time you can light your home, creatively and affordably.




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