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Lighting Your Living Room Comfortably It's important to create a relaxed, warm and welcoming atmosphere for your living room. It's not a place of work, like your kitchen or office, and you would like to be able to just unwind and just soak up a wonderfully soft environment. Whether you're settling in for a night of movies, gaming, entertaining visitors or just reading a book while sprawled out on the sofa, you’ll need the right reading lamps light to do so. Living rooms are distinct because of the wide assortment of activities that take place there, so you’ll need a wide assortment of lights to satisfy the varied needs of the people using the living room. Here are the essential elements of living room lighting.

Natural Light Using outside natural light to enhance your living room is not just the most budget-wise choice for lighting; it is also the healthiest one, because human eyes prefer sunlight to that of any artificial source. You can increase the inflow of natural light by changing your draperies to sheer or pale-coloured ones. You might also need to consider enlarging the room's windows to permit freer access to the sun’s rays.

Ambient Lighting Ambient lighting washes a room in warm, enticing light without producing a lot of shadows. Usually, ambient light comes from an overhead light like a pendant or chandelier, or from a torchiere floor lamp. Usually the light source is covered up by a glass globe or something similar that softens the light and directs it throughout the room. Recessed lights can be spread out over the full ceiling to give an even, efficient light that produces little glare. But recessed lights have a modern feel that might not suit your motif. Having multiple soft lights throughout the room can create a wonderfully inviting ambient light. Wall lights sconces in association with large, soft overhead fixtures can be a stupendous combination. For best control in creating just the right ambience for every occasion, every light source in the living room should have a dimmer or a three-way switch.

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Accent Lighting Accent lighting is designed to put the spotlight on your favorite living room components, which in turn can draw awareness away from unappealing features. It can highlight features like your favorite family portrait, a piece of sculpture or your stone fireplace. When used properly, accent lighting is a ornamental tool in itself, and can truly change the way guests view your house. Frequently, lighting that is generally used as ambient or task lighting can double as accent lighting. Consider installing a dimmer on a chandelier or sconce that you wish to use as an accent garden lights, or aligning the bulbs on a track lighting fixture to fall directly on a feature you'd like to accentuate.

Task Lighting Task lighting such as table lamps or free standing floor lamps are excellent if you like to work on individual projects like puzzle games, paper or crocheting. Living room lamps should be ideally set slightly behind the area being lit and a little bit to the right or left. Small track lighting fixtures and other low-level lights work well when you are using a computer or watching TV.

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