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It's a fact: good lighting transforms the atmosphere of any room. To brighten up a windowless room, use glass doors, light-colored walls, mirrors, and strategic lighting.
How to light your home to make it more elegant and welcoming? In this article, we've collected 10 practical tips for managing your home's lighting effectively without having to call an electrician or spend a fortune. With these simple ideas, you can also make the space around you much more inviting, even if you have a windowless room or spend many hours in rooms that require constant light.
1. White walls
The first tip for making a room brighter is to paint the walls white or a light color. In addition to giving a sense of freshness to the room, softer colors reflect the light and diffuse it throughout the room. This applies to both natural and artificial light.
2. Install dimmers
A dimmer is a system that allows you to change the intensity of light through a switch. This solution is simple to install and allows you to dim or increase the lighting in a room according to your needs or the effect you want to recreate. Thanks to the dimmer, in fact, you have full control over the amount of light emitted by the lamps, and you can modify it as desired depending on the time of day or the activity you intend to carry out. You can therefore increase the intensity of the light to avoid straining your eyes when reading or, vice versa, decrease it to create a more intimate atmosphere.
3. Combine different sources and intensities
To achieve an effect that's both pleasing to the eye and functional, it's important to organize your lighting system while maintaining harmony between the different light sources. You can achieve this by alternating strong and soft lights or by positioning the lamps differently in the room. By mounting the lights on multiple levels, from the table to the highest shelves, for example, you'll be able to reach even the darkest corners of the living room and illuminate every area of the room evenly. However, don't overdo it: a few lamps, string lights, or battery-operated candles in the right places are enough to transform the living room or your kitchen into a comfortable space. For optimal results, place three light sources of different intensities in each room.
4. A Game of Mirrors
One trick to illuminate your home without resorting to extra light bulbs is definitely decorating your rooms with wall mirrors. Reflective surfaces help illuminate your windowless room and allow you to save on electricity.
5. LED Lights
Among the fastest-growing trends among interior designers is the use of LED lights applied to furniture and walls. Given their small size, LED lights can be placed anywhere and allow you to highlight furnishing elements that would otherwise be hidden by darkness. LED lamps are available on the market with warm, neutral, or cold light, and in addition to being extremely versatile, they will help you reduce energy consumption, making your home more eco-friendly.
6. Recessed Spotlights
The use of recessed spotlights in walls is perfect for those seeking a modern style. These hidden lights emerge from behind furniture or walls and accentuate the contours and lines of the furniture. Hiding some light sources is also a great way to recreate the glow of natural light in a windowless living room.
7. Under-cabinet lights for the kitchen
The kitchen is unlike any other room in the house, as the light coming from the ceiling often can't reach every corner. To illuminate the work area, it becomes useful to install under-cabinet lighting systems that help you see under the furniture. This solution is available both in the form of LED strips and specific spotlights and can include integrated sockets, switches, or even sensors. This system, however, is not only functional: since they are installed under the furniture, the under-cabinet lights will emit a soft light as an alternative to the main lamps.
8. Decorative Lights
When we think of decorative lights, the first thing that comes to mind is the Christmas holidays, but you don't have to wait until December to make your home feel festive. There are different types of decorative lights, but the most common are string lights, available for both indoor and outdoor use, with warm, cold, white, or colored lights. What's more, they're incredibly versatile: these small bulbs can be hung on walls, rolled up inside a glass vase to highlight ornaments, or used to frame objects you want to draw attention to. Decorative lights are particularly suitable for windowless rooms, as they can be mounted to illuminate even the darkest corner of the room without much difficulty.
9. Pay attention to your work area
Whether it's a desk in the living room or a separate room, the area of the house where you spend hours studying or working on the computer requires more attention, because your productivity and well-being depend on certain choices. The first thing to keep in mind is that natural light doesn't always help us see better: window light in broad daylight can make a screen unusable. At the same time, the right light intensity is essential if you don't want to strain your eyes while writing, reading, or drawing. Combining different light sources is the ideal solution: make sure you have sufficient backlighting to avoid eye strain.
10. And the children's bedroom?
For the children's bedroom, a different approach is needed: in this case, style is secondary to safety. The first piece of advice we can give you is to aim for simplicity, avoiding small table lamps. Try to light the room from the ceiling and make sure to install switches at child height.
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