Lighting Solutions in Your Home

11 September 2015 by Marvin Carroll

When you move into a new home, the first thing you notice may not be your lighting. This is because most house showings occur during the daylight hours and you will likely move in during the day, too. As such, your new home will be filled with natural light from open windows. However, once you get moved in, you may begin to notice a lack of overhead lighting or sufficient lighting in some rooms in your new home. Luckily, there are numerous solutions available to you to help you resolve these lighting issues. Follow these steps to ensure that you have plenty of light in your new home. 

Use Lighting at Varied Heights throughout Rooms

Many people buy a living room set or a bedroom furniture set complete with lamps that are all the same style and height. However, having your lighting all at one level in a room can actually make it feel darker. 

Instead of using these sets of identical lamps in a room, try to mix it up and keep your lighting varied. Pair tall floor lamps with overhead lighting and smaller table lamps to break up the monotony and make the room feel brighter. 

This will help to keep the amount of lighting in different parts of the room at different levels. Bathing a room in too much uniform light can actually make the space feel less appealing and dynamic. 

Consider Installing Track Lighting

A lack of an overhead light in a room may be causing you a great deal of frustration. However, in spaces with lower ceilings, a light fixture protruding down in the middle of the room may actually be more distracting and problematic than helpful. 

In such cases, track lighting around the edges of a room may be an ideal solution. Track lighting is a series of small lights that are fixed along the ceiling to a bar (aka the track). These lights can be adjusted to point in different directions to vary the lighting in areas of a room and can also help to highlight certain elements of a room. 

You can use track lighting in a wide variety of ways. If you have a wall of photos or artwork that you want to draw the eye to, you can place a single row of track lights along that wall. Or, if you are looking to brighten an entire space, you can place track lights along all of the edges of a room as well as in the center of the room. These lights do not extend too far from the ceiling and therefore will not cause problems even in a room with lower ceilings.

Now that you have a few ideas for brightening up any dark spaces in your new home, you can get started in your lighting project. You will have a home that feels bright and vibrant in no time. Check out lighting suppliers likeDhillon Lighting Inc light stores for more ideas.

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