| Creating the right atmosphere in your home depends | | | | art work to create a decorative touch to your room. |
| on choosing just the right elements for your rooms. | | | | When you are designing a room, light is just as |
| Accent lighting is one way to create a mood in a room | | | | important as colour to the room. The textures that you |
| by illuminating design choices in the room or just to set | | | | use along with colours and light all combine to create a |
| the tone. This type of lighting is not chosen to illuminate | | | | feeling in the room. A room can feel larger if the dark |
| for work or reading, but only to create a feeling of | | | | corners are illuminated and a large room can feel |
| warmth in the room. | | | | warm and cosy if the lighting is warm and dimmed. |
| Lighting in a home is chosen based on its use. For | | | | Select fixtures for your walls that fit in with the |
| instance, if you are lighting a room where work will be | | | | décor of the room. There are many varieties |
| performed such as a kitchen, the lighting must be able | | | | of sconces and fixtures that can be installed in your |
| to illuminate the work. These lights are brighter than the | | | | home to coordinate with the other decorative touches |
| lights that are used in a family room or bedroom. To | | | | in your home. Choose modern fixtures for a |
| create an atmosphere in a room, you should plan to | | | | contemporary room or antique fixtures when your |
| have a variety of lights in the room so that the level of | | | | room has an old world style. |
| lighting is under your control. | | | | Choosing the correct lighting for a room is more |
| For instance, when you need brighter lights for work or | | | | complicated than you might think. It takes time to |
| reading, the light level can be turned up in the room. For | | | | create the right feeling in a room. Determine what you |
| an evening of quiet conversation or television viewing, | | | | want to accomplish with your lighting before you install |
| the lights can be dimmed. You may have to | | | | fixtures and place them in a room. Layer the lighting so |
| experiment a little to find the perfect places to put | | | | that you can increase or decrease the level of light in |
| lamps and lighting fixtures. Try a lamp in a specific area | | | | a room. The level of light that you choose for an |
| of the room and live with it for a while to determine | | | | evening at home with the family may be different than |
| how it affects the atmosphere in a room. | | | | the way you will light the room for a party with friends. |
| Accent lights are more of a decorative touch than | | | | A well appointed room has the right touches of colour |
| they illuminate a room. The light that focuses on a | | | | and textures along with the perfect lighting to illuminate |
| particular painting is an accent light. Accent lights can | | | | it all. |
| focus illumination on the wall without being focused on | | | | |