Living Room Lighting Ideas to Lighten Up Your Interior Space

Living Room Lighting Ideas to Lighten Up Your Interior Space

Living room lighting is one of those aspects of living room design and decorating which can make a big impact on the visual quality and balance in the interior space. The living room or the drawing room as some people call is the first room in

most homes where a person enters. That's why how you project your living room can make a big impression about your and your lifestyle in the mind of the visitor. If you ignore the living room decorating or are reluctant about keeping it clean and

tidy, it will definitely show up in visual terms.

To ensure that your living room is clean and healthy it is strongly recommended that your design it in a way such that it is easy to maintain and at the same time reflects who you are as a person. Living room lighting can play a major role in keeping the living room healthy and clean. The very first thing you must understand is that home lighting is divided into two major parts. The first is the natural daylight lighting. Which is greatly dependent on natural sunlight entering the living room.

Managing natural sunlight into the living room during day hours will make a big impact on hygiene of the interior space. Poorly illuminated spaces form dark spots and a habitable ground for all sorts of unwanted material such as dust particles and bacteria, which can he harmful for health, especially if you have kids at home.

If your local conditions are such that there is a lot of natural sunlight then you can control it using curtains and drapes. The biggest advantage of curtains is that apart from using them to control the flow of natural sunlight; they also form a visual element in the living room. You can use them to contribute to the visual beauty of the living room interior space.

Apart from using curtains you can even use drapes or bamboo mats as an alternative. If you have a country style-decorating theme then bamboo mats go really well and help in creating a visual balance easily.

During night hours artificial lighting can be used to create dramatic effects in the living room. Various special purpose lighting fixtures such as floor lamps, stained glass shades, chandeliers are available in the market to create lighting design that can create a mood for various occasions in the living room.

Depending upon what kind of activity is being performed in the living room such as casual chat, watching TV, listening to music by being alone or a birthday party, you can achieve any sort of lighting environment using a combination of special purpose and general lighting. Use of dimmers on the selected lighting fixtures can make a big difference without having to buy excessive and expensive lighting fixtures.

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