05.01.09

Interior Designer Lighting Tips for your Fort Myers Home

Posted in Lighting at 2:21 pm by lifestyle1

The most important aspect to remember when placing light fixtures in your Fort Myers home is to place them where light is needed. Interior designers will tell you that function must not be overlooked.  At the same time, interior designers recommend balancing the fixtures to create an attractive and comfortable environment.  

Keep in mind, there are 4 types of lighting: ambient, task, accent, and decorative.  

Ambient lighting fills the room with soft, general light.  Task lighting is designed for a particular task, such as reading.  Accent lighting is direct light that typically highlights an object or sets a mood.  Decorative lighting, our interior designer’s favorite type of lighting, provides a decorative element to a room…something that catches the eye!   This can often be the focal point of a room, such as a chandelier.  

Making use of all 4 types of lighting will create a wonderful ambiance. 

Tip:  If you want a room to appear larger, direct soft light amongst all four walls.  On the other hand, if you want a room to appear smaller and more intimate, direct a few soft pools of light on certain objects or areas throughout the room.  

Lamps we just love at Lifestyle Interiors!   

     

This porcelain lamp is finished in heavily crackled, aged ivory glaze with heavily antiqued champagne details. The pleated, square bell shade is silken ivory linen textile.

This lamp has a heavily antiqued champagne leaf finish with aged black strap details. The round drum shade has a silkened ivory liner with sheer cross-patterned fabric.

This fascinating table lamp brings together blue/green crackle glass and brushed, warm nickeled accents. It is topped nicely with a silken square bell shade.

Clear glass body with polished chrome metal details and bronzed burnishing. The round modified drum shade is made of mesh sequins finished in a copper bronze.

Natural palm branches strung together with woven rattan accented with a rustic bronze foot. The rectangle box shade is burlap textile with natural slubbing.