Lighting plays a large part in the look of a space.
Lighting is one of the best ways to create a contemporary design feel in a new house or apartment. Outdated or old-fashioned lighting fixtures and a lack of ingenuity make a home feel bland. Creativity and attention to the current hot trends provide you with some lighting options that can make your place truly stand out.
Track Lighting
Track lighting offers the potential to provide general lighting in a room or to create spotlight effects on areas you want to highlight. On most track light rails, several lights are independently adjustable. Focus them to light the room, but also use one or two of them to highlight a work of art, piece of furniture or other area that you want to draw focus to, which creates a dramatic, almost cinematic look.
Recessed Lighting
One of the goals of modern lighting is to provide enough light to illuminate a room properly without having a lot of harsh and bright lighting sources right in people's sight lines. Recessed lighting is very good at accomplishing this. Instead of a light protruding from a wall or hanging down from the ceiling, the fixture is placed in a cutout inside the ceiling or wall, which cleverly hides the light itself while still providing efficient light.
Lamps
Good lighting effects can be created with the right types of lamps. To get an actual lighting effect instead of just a trendy-looking lamp, you need one that throws light on the room in an interesting way. Look for lamps with multi-directional light sources or with shapes cut into the lampshade or body of the lamp that create theatrical lighting effects within your space.
Multi Dimensional Lighting
An important trend in lighting is to realize that lighting serves more than one purpose within a room and to install lighting fixtures that help you achieve those different goals. One light source might provide general illumination, such as an overhead fixture. You might also have accent lights, such as those installed in or around art to draw attention to the piece. A lamp provides a practical light for a particular task such as reading. The use of multiple lighting sources within a single room is certainly part of the ongoing trend.
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