Lighting Design Boston MA
Smart home lighting design can efficiently brighten your home, inside and out. There are several concepts of light and lighting design that will give you a good foundation for making the right lighting decisions for your home. Find out where to start and what you should consider.
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Home Lighting Design How To Best Light Your Home You don't need to be an expert on home lighting design to adequately light your home but getting some of the basic tenets under your belt certainly helps. Filling your home with light can be accomplished in a variety of ways and like anything else, can be done well or poorly. If you've ever been in a space with a poor lighting design you'll understand the difference. Good lighting stems from good design concepts that involve the right kind of lighting, congruency with how the space will be used and consideration of lighting controls. In other words, good home lighting design involves more than just the lights you choose. Sticking a few lamps in a room might keep you from bumping into things but there's a whole lot more that you can do with lighting. Where To Start - Understand The Basics Tackling a broad subject like home lighting design might seem a bit intimidating but you don't have to become a lighting designer to achieve good results in your home. Understanding the basic principles of lighting and how it's used effectively will get you off on the right foot. The Basic Concepts Of Home Lighting There are several concepts of light and lighting design that will give you a good foundation for making the right lighting decisions for your home. Using "Layers" Of Light
Lighting professionals often use the term "layering" when referring to lighting design. In more practical terms, you can view light layers as describing the different functional categories of light: Ambient, Task, Accent and Decorative. Knowing the effects these layers have and how they can be used will help you achieve a balanced and effective lighting plan. Editor's Comments
This is probably a good time to define some terms so you don't get confused as you read on. In the lighting industry the term "lamp" is used to express what you and I know as a light bulb, the source of the light. The fixtures, (the things that hold the light bulbs, some of the which we'd call "lamps") are called "luminaires". Why the stuffy, counterintuitive, confusing language? Who knows. However, to be consistent with the lighting professionals, I'll use the term "lamp" to refer to light bulbs in the rest of the information below. | - Ambient light refers to the general fill light that is necessary to function in a space. It's source can be from any one or more of the various types of lighting - by "types" we mean the various physical lighting fixtures that are available like recessed cans, track lighting, etc.
- Task lighting is used in areas where specific tasks are performed with the main purpose of providing illumination for those functions. Examples include lighting over the sink for doing dishes, under the cabinets for preparing meals on the countertop and next to an easy chair for the purpose of reading.
- Accent lighting is used to highlight certain feature...
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