Every home needs a good mix of both functional and decorative lighting to create the right moods, style and ambience for each occasion. Just think of how soft lighting helps you feel more relaxed and mellow, or how warm lighting works to keep your spirits up.
Maintaining the right balance between functional fixtures that light up your home and decorative lighting that is consistent with its overall theme, is where it gets tricky.
Not sure how to achieve the effect you want? Then use these five homes as inspiration to get your own lights right:
At first glance, this home seems to keep it simple, clean and fairly basic with its lighting choices, but the surprising addition of golden geometric mini-chandeliers adds instant glam. The moods in this home can go from practical to party in no time.
Interior Designer: Mega Fusion Studio Design
Location: Prima Midah Heights
Don’t you just love living room ceilings with reflective light! This type of luminescence is romantic and soft, perfect for cosy evenings. When hosting, imagine how this relaxed room is transformed by its decorative modern pendant lights that shine like Christmas tree balls – we reckon it also keeps it proud owners in a festive mood all year round!
Interior Designer: Lazern
Location: SS2, Petaling Jaya
Music is not the only thing to soothe the savage beast – because so does incandescent lighting. With this home, you’ll notice primarily warm and gentle incandescence floating through and man is it calming! To maintain sufficient levels of illumination, it’s important to mix and match; here we have track lighting, oversized lamps, recessed ceiling lights and under cabinet bar lights.
Interior Designer: Surface R
Location: The Capers
Homes with darker tones, high grey walls and ceilings like this, need the right amount of light to keep away dreary moods. The best remedy is a healthy dose of sunshine! See how natural light combines with accents (enhancing the artwork) and ceiling lights as well as pretty lamps to uplift this drawing room.
Interior Designer: Space Dec
Location: Classic Landed
We like how lighting in this home is used to emphasise character and personality. Consider the way art pieces in this home have track spotlights dramatically positioned upon it. It’s a unique way of directing attention to focal points that are dear to you. The rest of the lighting is ambient as it incorporates recessed fittings and handsome pendant fixtures.
Interior Designer: X Dimension Design
Location: Five Stones
So you can see how the right lighting can set a tone for the rest of your décor as well as improve and enhance your moods. We hope these ideas have given you a little food for thought on how you might like to light up your own home. But you don’t have to do it all by yourself – why not let us help you out
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