Home Treasures

Using lighting to create the perfect room

Many home design magazines have rooms express the best ideals of home trends Today and designs. People spend hundreds of dollars in home decor magazines making a collage that will transform your home into a showcase.

After passing 10-50000 dollars, most homeowners and renounce settle for second best. This is unfortunate, because with a designer some tricks, any home can become a showcase.

The first trick to creating a living quality of the magazine in your home is to understand the concept of lighting direct and indirect. Many rooms in the journals of using ambient lighting, with bulbs soft golden tones often, to give the room a warm glow.

A white light can leave the most beautiful room looking garish. In fact, if you check out many before and after "photos, the" before "room is flooded with harsh white light. The window treatments are so backward that the landscape would pollute the environment.

Any room richly decorated will be ruined if a large picture window floods the room with bright green and black street. Check out the second after pictures. Often Outdoor filtered. This could be achieved by placing a reflective coating on the window, or photographing the room at night and then 'impose' outdoor scene again in the window.

The graphic artist play an important role in creating the ideal accommodation. A careful look at some rooms can show that the artist put a blue, gold, beige or a film on the image. Although this trick may lead to a big disappointment for most home decorators, does not mean you can not recreate the same effect at home playing with light, changing colors of shadow, the exchange of direct light from ambient light.

Many Room can be improved by eliminating the overhead light, or drastically changed. Think about the mood in the search for a ceiling light. The Most designers think of ceiling fans, decorative lights or ceiling.

The color should be the focus first when buying a light. The room rate is defined light. A bedroom should have the lowest rolling light. The dining room and kitchen should be brighter.

The shadow has a great impact on the light of the ability to create mood. Many rooms can be improved by eliminating a clear glass or glossy white, chandelier a matt, gold.

Screens that refract light a touch of color to the room and highlight the opaque areas. Smooth, quiet tones blend colors in a room, leaving the rest of the eye and creating heat.

Before changing the furniture and lighting, take a look at the walls. The slightest change in color on the wall of a room change dramatically. Many "perfect" rooms have textured walls absorb light instead of reflecting back into the room.

There are several easy ways to add texture to a wall. Add a thin layer of plaster and sand the wall, then paint over it, will destroy the ability of a large wall to reflect light. This type of treatment is used in rooms that need to be dark - even when illuminated.

The opposite occurs with bright rooms. Use gloss paints, bright colors, and glass or metal twist and refract light, breaking the colors, and adding a glow to the room almost invisible.

About the Author

Patricia Taylor advises on home decorating and decor from her web site at
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