Design Tips for the Ultimate Home Lighting

March 4, 2024 Lelch

Design Tips for the Ultimate Home Lighting

It’s easy to view our home lighting as a means to an end. We turn it on in the morning as we make our way to the kitchen. Our table lamp offers the perfect area for reading, and our office light enables us to work late into the evening. It’s so much a part of our life that we can easily take it for granted.

Lighting, however, is much more than the illumination that allows us to perform our daily tasks. It sets the mood for different occasions and can make a home appear warm and inviting or cold and austere. The right lighting design is as important to your Wayzata, MN, home as your carefully chosen furnishings.

Keep reading to see how lighting can create spaces that enhance your everyday life, as well as add beauty and effortless control.

THE NATURE OF LIGHT

Layered lighting brings a room to life, and the best way to achieve it is through ambient, accent, and task lighting. Ambient lights provide a soft glow that fills a room. Think of soft filtered sunlight entering through your windows. Task lighting helps us perform specific activities, while accent lights highlight our fine artwork and architectural features.

Quality lighting fixtures placed strategically throughout a home provide the layered lighting effect. This adds depth and beauty and is a much better solution than just one central ceiling fixture. Beautiful, full ambient lighting can be attained with strategically placed recessed or downlights. Our lighting experts may recommend upgrading or retrofitting existing lighting fixtures with tunable LED fixtures.

Pendant lights offer an elegant or modern look, depending on the fixture. They can also be used for ambient or task lighting, depending on their placement. Certain pendants can even be placed within a track lighting system.

Task lighting is best explored in relation to a family’s lifestyle. Everyone’s daily activities vary, and so should their lighting. Pendant lights over an island offer visual appeal while providing task lighting for cooking. A unique and carefully chosen fixture above an alcove or in a well-suited corner can make the perfect reading nook.

TOTAL CONTROL

Today’s tunable lighting options offer homeowners and designers every color in the visible light spectrum. When integrated with your home automation system, you can program scenes that set the lighting and other systems for different occasions. Push the dinner button on an elegant in-wall keypad to set the dining area lights to the color of candlelight. Tap the outdoor party lights on a touchscreen to illuminate your pool, patio, landscape, and tiki torches to preset hues and temperatures.

At Lelch Audio Video, we blend art, technology, and design to create beautiful spaces uniquely designed for every family member. To learn more about lighting design and home automation or to schedule a complimentary consultation, give our team a call or fill out our online contact form. We look forward to hearing from you!

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Design Tips for the Ultimate Home Lighting