Lighting can have a enormous impact on your interior space. Used properly it can be used to create a ‘feature’ in a room, set a ‘mood’ or help you perform a certain task or set of tasks, like in a kitchen or study.
Here are some of Fofi’s tips for maximizing the impact of light in three ways:
“Careful planning is essential for functional and stylish lighting. Factors to consider include the purpose of the room that will determine the wattage and the desired mood.”
Task lighting: General lighting in the form of down/halogen lights or a ceiling pendant. Task light in the form of a desk lamp with strong wattage for reading and writing. As well as helping you to read a desk lamp helps you avoid creating shadows in a room. Task lighting in the form of track lights or angled wall washers to direct the beam to highlight diplomas, degrees or art on the wall.
Feature lighting: People use feature lighting to add maximum impact to a room or provide a focal point to the space. Typical areas include an entry or foyer, over a kitchen island/bench-top, in a high stairwell.
Hallway/foyer: a large hanging chandelier works well in either a modern or traditional style.
Kitchen: Large hanging pendant made from glass or a material that is easy to wipe clean.
Stairwell: a cluster of hanging pendants suspended at varying lengths.
Mood or ambient lighting:
This has an important place in the living or dining room here the general background lighting would be pendant or ceiling down lights on dimmers, together with a table lamp on a sideboard; or a stylish floor lamp poised in the corner of a room.
Not to forget the use of scented candles in a
candelabra or on the dinning table to give further warmth and atmosphere providing an ambience to your space.
By Foffi by Design
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