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Guide To Lighting
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- Lighting Room-by-Room
Living Room
Like the dining room, this room is a hotspot for social interaction; however, many activities, like TV viewing, reading and craftwork, are carried out within the living room that puts an emphasis on quality ambient light and task lighting that relieves the eyes.
- Begin your lighting design by picking your ambient light source, usually in the form of a flush or semi-flush mount, but also commonly generated by ceiling fan lights, lamps or torchieres.
- To maximize your viewing pleasure, opt for track lighting that won't shine directly into a screen or your face and provides great ambient light.
- Use picture lights to put a focus on a favorite painting or photograph.
- Place a floor or table lamp to the left or right of your reading chair, depending upon which side won't cast shadows across the page when you use your page-turning hand .
- Consider pendants, mini-pendants or track fixtures over your home bar.
- Jazz up a fireplace with overhead recessed downlights, track lights or by framing it with wall sconces.
- Accentuate your plants' profiles by tucking uplight cans behind the plant and aiming them at the wall.
