You may finally have that dream home or you may have just renovated the old one, but does it feel like something is still missing? Having inadequate or the wrong lighting in your home can ruin the feel and aura. Below are three unique lighting ideas to make your home perfect.

Repeat and Match the Designs:

A great way to liven up a room is to repeat and match your chandeliers to your furniture. If you have a square table put a square chandelier. If you have a round table put a round chandelier. This not only livens up the room with elegant symmetry, but also allows for even light distribution for the whole table.

Use Different Layers to Light Up The Room:

The three lighting layers are ambient, accent, and task. Ambient lighting is your standard room lighting. It is the overhead lighting that lightens up a room. Accent lighting is lighting that focuses on a specific object in the room. Accent lighting is a great way to put a statue or other object in the limelight. Task lighting is a type of lighting to help you do a specific duty. Combining two or all three layers can give any room in your house a unique look.

Halogen Light Bulbs:

If you want to really brighten a room, Halogen light bulbs are a great way to do just that. Halogen lights gives off an appearance of natural daylight and are a good alternative to Incandescent and Fluorescent bulbs.

If you want a more personal approach on how to light your home, make sure to contact us.

While lighting for different rooms in the house varies, it is always a key component, as important as the furniture or paint color.  Proper lighting enhances each room’s distinct personality.

The living room is the showcase of your house.  A gathering spot for friends and family, it is where your best decorating ideas are on display.   A good mix of accent, task and ambient lighting will enhance any living room.

Accent lighting, including flood lights and wall sconces, highlights pieces of art. Task lighting adds brightness for specific activities, such as reading a book or doing a puzzle.  Adjustable floor lamps or table lamps achieve this effect.   Ambient lighting, or fill light, creates a soft, warm glow.  Low-key track lighting or recessed lighting accomplishes this.

If the living room is the showcase of your home, then the kitchen is its heart and soul.   Intimate activities occur here, including cooking, eating and entertaining. To create a warm, welcoming kitchen, the room needs both task and ambient lighting.

Task lighting is ideal for cooking spaces.  Shadow-free, under-cabinet lighting and stovetop lights achieve this.   Recessed can lights with incandescent bulbs create ambient lighting and cast a soft glow, welcoming all who enter.  Chandelier and pendant lights over the center island add to this soft wave of light.

Your bathroom is a private sanctuary.  Light it accordingly.  This means having  task, accent, ambient and decorative lighting.

A sconce lighting fixture at eye level on either side of the mirror provides shadowless, functional task lighting.  A pendant fixture with a semitransparent shade creates ambient light. Recessed, directional light accents art pieces.  A decorative pendent light adds bathroom pizzazz.

If you have a brand new home or are redecorating the family homestead, nothing matters quite as much creating the perfect light in each room.  Contact us for beautiful fixtures and great lighting ideas.

Your foyer is the introduction to your home. It is where people will get their first impression of what your house is like.  To make sure your foyer is presenting your home, there are a few things you should do.  Keeping the furniture to scale, hanging a large mirror, accessorizing in your own unique style are a few things you can do to make sure you are presenting the right image.

Perhaps the most important aspect of all, however, is to make sure your foyer’s lighting matches your style and represents the house.  At the same time, the lighting is where you can go the most dramatic without fear of overwhelming the space.

• Antique

This antique six light foyer chandelier is an open concept that gives depth and air at the same time.

The glass globe and metal combination in this three light chandelier give a real Old World feel.

• Traditional

The elegant four light foyer chandelier, in a modernized French Provincial style, has clear teardrop crystals and a rustic finish.

This five light foyer chandelier has crystal drops and a candelabra base.

• Modern

For an angular feel without closing in the space, this eight light pendant gives your foyer the straight lines and open feel you’re looking for.

This modern piece uses curves in an open design.  Crystals add lightness to the globe shape.

No matter what your style, make sure your foyer makes the first impression you are hoping for with the right furniture, accessories, and, most of all, your foyer lighting.  Contact us to discuss even more lighting options for your beautiful foyer.

Perhaps you just installed a new chandelier in your dining room, or simply need to change burned out bulbs in lighting fixtures around your home. Whatever your reason is, it is important to consider the following 7 tips for choosing the right light bulbs.

1. Wattage: Wattage refers to the amount of energy a light bulb can produce. Each lighting fixture in your home has a maximum amount of wattage that it can withstand. For most light fixtures the range of watts is between 40 and 120. When you start shopping around for light bulbs it is crucial to pick ones with the appropriate amount of wattage for the fixture. If the wattage is too high this will cause damage to the fixture as well as create a fire hazard.

2. Lumens: Lumens is the amount of a light that a bulb will produce. The higher the amount of lumens in a light bulb, the brighter the light is. When choosing the right light bulb for your fixture you will want to consider how bright the room needs to be. For large spaces you will want a bulb with a higher amount of lumens. For reading lamps, you can go with a lesser amount.

3. Shape: Generally, choosing the shape of your light bulb is at your discretion, but some fixtures require a specific shape in order to fit and operate properly. The most common shapes of light bulbs are the generic bulb shape, A-shaped, or spiral shaped.

4. Life Expectancy: Although the initial purchase price of your light bulbs is relatively small, it is important to consider the cost of your utilities for the life span of those bulbs. For fixtures that aren’t used as frequently incandescent bulbs are the cheapest choice, but also have the shortest life span. LED bulbs are more expensive initially, but have a life expectancy of up to 50,000 hours.

5. Light: When you go to buy new light bulbs, you want to purchase ones with the type of light appearance that is appropriate, and best illuminates each room of your house. There are several color options to consider for light bulbs from warm white, daylight, to cool white.

6. Mercury Content: While mercury content will not affect how you use the light bulb or the type of light it will produce, it is important to check the packaging of any light bulbs you are considering. Light bulbs that contain mercury cannot be thrown in the trash, so if you choose to buy them it is necessary to find a safe way of disposing them.

For more information on choosing the right light bulbs for every lighting fixture inside and outside of your home, contact us today!