《《art- Awaken Your Interior Designer- Lighting Style》.pdf

BONUS REPORT “Light Up Your Style!” How to Select Lighting Options that Match Your Decorating Style By Marney K. Makridakis and Michael J. Holland Copyright 2003 ImagineQuest Information Products Inc. and Home-Decorating-Made-E All Rights Reserved Light Up Your Style! It’s time to Light Up Your Style! In our e-book, Awaken Your Interior Designer , we presented 10 distinct decorating styles and guided you through selecting the best style - or combination of styles - for your home. Once you know your style, you can design a room with confidence, knowing that the style will anchor the entire look of the room. This means that every element in the room should be consistent with the style or combination of styles you have selected. A room’s lighting is no exception. Lighting is one of the most important aspects of a room, and your choice of lighting elements and fixtures should be consistent and unified with your particular style. Let’s very quickly review the three types of lighting. Ambient lighting (also called general lighting) illuminates an entire room. Task lighting is used to give the appropriate lighting needed to perform tasks in certain areas. Accent lighting is used to give focus to a particular object or to create a certain mood. A fourth type of lighting is natural lighting, which refers to sunlight that comes in from the outdoors through windows or skylights. The family room shown here (right) makes use all of the first three types of lighting. Track lighting on the ceiling provides ambient lighting. A Tiffany stained glass fixture (the shape of which is referred to as a pendant down light) provides task lighting on a table used for game playing and dining. A lamp placed on an accent table near the sofa is used as accent lighting. Note that this lamp could also serve as task lighting, if