Practical Lighting Ideas for Home Areas

We love to use home lighting for illuminating dark areas and creating bright focal points at home or even for warm atmosphere. But for family members of different ages and for different functions of the rooms, we may love the balanced lighting, which is ambient and may not exert any negative impact on us. We may feel happy to do different tasks under the right lighting in different rooms. Here are some practical lighting ideas for different rooms.



Entrance Lighting

Usually, we see natural light penetrate the entrance areas and this area is often not used for activities, except the step into home. We need to make sure there is enough lighting in this area when it gets dark or when it is in the evening. We can use wall sconces for ambient lighting or use ceiling light fixture for general lighting. For a warm welcoming atmosphere, just create a color contrast between the light fixture and furniture. The entrance is an access to living room. We can use various lights.



For example, the recessed lighting for illuminating the ceiling, the skylight for inviting natural light at daytime, the cabinet lighting for removing dark spots, down lights for accenting some special areas or even lamps for general warm lighting.



Hallway Lighting

Hall lighting is also very important, which does not need to be very bright or luxurious, but has to be warm and special. We often do not choose to use pot lights or light tunnel in a ceiling at the hallway areas. We can use some surface mounted light fixtures. For balanced lighting and reducing dark spots, we need to control the number and placement of the lights. We can also use the recessed lights as night lighting and this is very necessary for family members to walk through the hallway to the bathrooms at night. Anyway, the lighting at the hallway should not create any glare.



Task Lighting

Most often, we associate the task lighting with kitchen areas. Kitchen needs task lighting for enough brightness to well perform task. But other rooms such as crafts rooms needs such lighting and we can use pendant lights, under cabinet light as the task lighting. Of course, we need to allow for more windows in such areas that involve a lot of tasks, especially at daytime because we can make the best use of natural light.



Closet Lighting

Most of us do not use closet lighting. But for the elderly or when we age, we will find the closet lighting necessary and useful. We can easily find the items in the closet when there is light. We can use LED lights which are efficient and will not create too much heat after long time use.