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Light up your home

With today's wide variety of lighting selections available for your home and garden, it's easy to get creative when choosing lighting for the various rooms in your house.

Lighting in your living room

How you light up your living room depends on the mood you wish to create. Intimate, dramatic and spacious moods may be created by using lighting effectively.

Layered light is fairly popular for the living room and is achieved by having multiple light sources that overlap.

A combination of down lights, floor lamps, wall lamps and accent lights works well.

The key is to have your accent lights and down lights on dimmers, thereby creating multiple effects or moods by shifting the emphasis. Down lights placed near a wall will create a dramatic effect if the wall has an interesting paint effect or is textured.

Lighting for the dining room

Hidden lights work well in dining rooms.

Placed behind a cabinet or under a plant, they create an intimate and soft light. Chandeliers are beautiful in the dining room, however, be careful not to buy one too large.

For something unusual, wash one wall with light while keeping the other walls relatively shaded.

This will work well if you break the light with a painting or wall hanging.

Use hidden lights to create soft, intimate moods. Use track lighting to highlight artworks around your dining room table and ensure you are able to dim each light or group of lights separately.

Lighting for your kitchen

The kitchen is the one room in the house where task lighting (lighting used for a specific task in order to illuminate a certain object) is essential.

Task lighting assists in reducing shadows and with more light on a subject, working in the kitchen becomes less of a chore. You can also try installing under-cabinet lights near work surfaces.

Recessed halogen lighting works brilliantly for the sink area. Most families spend a great deal of time around the kitchen table and with the correct lighting, any kitchen can be transformed into a cosy get-together spot.

Decorate your kitchen by using a colourful hanging lamp over the kitchen table, rounding it off with matching wall lamps.

Lighting used for master bedrooms

Most master bedrooms are multi-purpose areas used for reading, sleeping, watching TV or being intimate.

Therefore it makes sense to have a lighting arrangement that is flexible. Installing dimmers is the first step, allowing you to adjust the mood you wish to create.

Consider using task lights in your bedroom, vanity lights for the dressing table, hidden lights in the cupboards and sturdy ceiling lights.

Have multiple lights such as dual swing-arm wall lamps above your headboard, allowing you to read while your partner sleeps.

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