Living room design options
Light is a powerful tool with which you can enlarge (reduce) space, create an intimate or light atmosphere. Today we will tell you how it should be in the living room, and how to organize it correctly..
The living room has several functions. It is designed for receiving guests, reading, relaxing, watching a home theater. There is often a work area and even a gallery. It is important to create a cozy atmosphere in this room, conditionally divide it into zones. For each of them, it is necessary to provide islands of light.
There are general rules to consider when organizing lighting in the living room. We will introduce you to some of them.
1. Basic lighting
Large beautiful chandelier in the living room
Chandeliers on the ceiling contribute to the creation of a festive atmosphere and maximally diffuse light throughout the room. If the ceilings are high, large, multi-tiered chandeliers look good in such a room. If the ceilings in the room are low, such options should be abandoned in favor of elegant single-lamp models or compact ceiling lamps..
Stylish ceiling light
2. Chamber setting
Use sconces to create a chamber atmosphere
An intimate atmosphere can be achieved with sconces and floor lamps. They must be placed and hung in the recreation (reading) area next to the armchairs or sofa. Moreover, their dimensions should be chosen in accordance with the area of space and the size of the furniture..
Spectacular crystal floor lamps
Usually, elegant furniture is placed in a small living room, which means lighting devices, you need to select the appropriate ones for it. But in spacious rooms, larger floor lamps and sconces are allowed. If you want to accentuate the floor, choose a floor lamp that directs the light downward..
Floor lamp with directional light on the floor
3. Workplace lighting
An additional table lamp is needed in the workplace area. When choosing floor lamps, lamps, lamps for different zones, adhere to a single stylistic performance. So, the interior will look whole.
Place a few extra lights in the work area
4. Spot lighting
Ceiling spotlights can serve as additional lighting for individual areas.
Gothic interior with spotlights
5. Additional lighting
If the interior has built-in niches, columns, podiums, arches, brickwork, paintings, it is worth emphasizing them with low-voltage lamps, embedding them from the bottom of any of these structures. Decorative light in this case can serve to create a chamber setting. It is also good to use art objects for this purpose (aquariums, non-standard floor lamps).
LED lighting in the living room
Additional illumination of niches
6. Color and light
Before you start actively equipping the living room with general and additional light, decide on the color scheme of the room. Light should be a harmonious addition to the interior. For a room decorated in warm colors, only warm, soft lighting is suitable. In an active cool interior, blue shades will be appropriate.
Bright living room
Living room with the right lighting
7. Visual deception
Using decorative lighting in niches, it is easy to achieve the effect of an additional window. In addition, this technique contributes to the visual expansion of space..
Integrated lighting lightens the interior
8. Airy interior
The illusion of airiness will help to create a downward or upward light that gently falls on the walls..
Different lighting scenarios in the living room
Decorative lighting
9. Built-in light
Catwalk lighting works to create the effect of furniture or ceiling floating in the air. This light will become the dividing line between the zones. It is good to use it for safety purposes on the floor, for example, to see the boundaries of steps if you have a multi-level interior..
Ceiling lighting
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