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A Dramatic New Lighting Option for Your Home
by Tara Wischard
http://www.racelighting.com
One of the most under-appreciated and underrated ways to
bring drama, warmth and subtle accents into your home
decorating is with lighting. The style and color of the
lighting that you choose for your rooms can accent your
existing styles, subtly call attention to structural detail
or highlight a sculpture or piece of artwork. Arrangement of
light fixtures, placement of individual lights and the color
of the light source that you choose all combine to give an
overall ambience that can turn any room into a warm haven or
a frosty, high-tech display room.
We put a lot of thought into the colors that you chose for
your decorating schemes. Why stop when it comes to your
choices in lighting? The undertones of the lights that you
choose for your home can brighten a dreary room, warm a cool
one, or bring a neutral, plain color scheme to sudden life.
If you're looking for an easy way to give your rooms a pick-
me-up, try changing the light bulbs in your lamps for one of
these options.
The newest wrinkle in novelty lighting is 'mood lights'.
Created out of hand-blown translucent glass, mood lights use
LED technology to create colored light that changes and
shifts through an entire prism. Want a more stable light?
Mood lights can be 'frozen' to display the color of your
choice.
Soft white bulbs use a powder coated glass to soften and
diffuse the light that they shed. The lighting effect from a
soft white bulb is more soothing to the eye in rooms like
living rooms and bedrooms, and the color is flattering to
most skin tones.
Lighting with a hint of amber replicates the color quality
of a gas flame. It warms a room and makes it feel cozy and
homey.
Light blue bulbs take the filtering a step further than soft
white and give you lighting with the yellow spectrum
filtered out for a cool, crisp light that is easy to read or
work by.
Light bulbs with the warmth of pink added soften light and
add a wash of romance to bedrooms and lounges. Pink is an
energizer and will make your room feel more alive.
Used as accent pieces, they can bring a dramatic flair to
your decorating. A single 18 inch wall mounted square mood
light can highlight and call attention to a sculpture, and
become a part of it with the slow, sensual dance of light to
silhouette the shape before it. Set off a sleek bar design
with a mood light chiller, that features a cooling unit and
light source in one. Filled with ice and set on a bar, it
turns a utilitarian ice bucket and wine chiller into an
object of art.
Colored bulbs have been around for a long time, but a new
entry in the lighting industry has picked up a lot of media
buzz since its introduction at the Spa Expo in April (2005)
Mood-Lites take the idea of coloring your world with light
to the next level with seven colors of light bulbs, each
keyed to a different mood and named appropriately. They
suggest 'happiness' (yellow) in an entry hall to promote
happiness throughout the house, or 'tranquility' (jade) in a
corner of the living room to bring a sense of serenity. At
$5 a bulb, they're an inexpensive way to experiment with
light and mood in your home.
Whether you choose overhead lighting, track lighting,
recessed lighting or some other option altogether, a little
attention to the color of the light in your rooms can open
your life - and your moods - to a whole new world.
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