subject: Chrome Picture Lights: Art Lighting Adds Gleaming Accent To Home Decor [print this page] Chrome picture lightslike the Contemporary 16" Polished Chrome Picture Light are perfect for images about 32 inches wide, especially when framed in chrome or a chrome-compatible frame. Many black and white prints can be even more brilliantly set-off by a chrome frame / picture light combo. The whole effect of art lighting can be exponentially more effective when frames, prints and picture lite coordinate.
Contemporary furnishings are often accented with chrome finishes, and these spots of brilliant chrome throughout the room can have a harmonizing influence on your home design. Create a gallery effect by choosing several works of art which can use identically finished frames and art light fixtures. This strategy helps you amplify the impact of well-lit art as well as adding multiple sources of illumination in each room. These additional layers of light can be put into play at different times of day, or for setting different stages allowing multiple moods and uses for each room.
In the world of lighting picture light fixtures are uniquely positioned for creating intimate islands of light beneath the beneficent glow of a painting or print. LED picture light technology has made break-through improvements. House of Troy designers have developed bright white Light Emitting Diode arrays to provide an even more unique effect than incandescent picture lights or fluorescent art lighting. If you are interested in a chrome finished LED picture light, check out the SLED20-62 a contemporary styled Slim-Line LED 20" Picture Light in Polished Chrome. The Slim-Lines slender tubular shade suspended on timelessly graceful arches lends itself to dramatically highlighting any piece in your home.
When finished in brass, antique brass or mahogany bronze, the Slim-Line picture light line seems to cut across style boundaries making it art lighting at home in traditional, contemporary or classically styled rooms.
If a batterypicture light is needed when there is no power available or you dont want to see a plug -- try the Advent 85 Hour Battery Picture Light in Fluorescent Satin Nickel. This art light, called the ABF14-52, has a satin nickel finish rich and muted at the same time, silvery. Travelling artists can stage their work more brilliantly with battery picture lights in their travelling tents or booths. Antique fairs, flea markets, traveling exhibitions and street fairs are all places where a battery picture light can be used as art lighting.
Picture lights add a layer of light like no other. Many home designers include sconces or wall lights of some kind, but not surprisingly, picture lights can take any room to the next level of sophistication. This is obviously because art lighting means there is art in the home. And art equals culture, individual flavor and taste. Direct wire picture lights, frequently found in hotels or restaurants or long gallery-like hallways, are found in the most established and elegant homes as well. But any style of picture light, plug-in, direct-wire or battery picture light, is key to adding emphasis on art, the foundation of a cultured home.
