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Lighting can make a big difference in how you feel about your home. It helps you perform tasks more easily, makes you feel safer and more confortable, and allows you to enjoy your home to its full potential. Lighting adds beauty and drama to a room. It can make a small room look open and airy, and a large room appear couzy and inviting. It can create a stimulating atmosphere for a night and entertaining or a quiet feeling of relaxation after a long tiring day. In some many ways, lighting can make a difference and it does so inexpensively compared to some home decorating and remodelling options



Determining your needs. Lighting should be planned to complement your lifestyle, so first you need to develop a home lighting plan that suits your individual needs and those of your family. When planning your lighting, look at the activities that occur at each room, the atmosphere you want to create and the decorated elements you wish to emphasize. Keep in mind that light can be absorbed and even waisted in dark color rooms, or reflected and use as an additional elimination in light color rooms also take note of those areas serving more than a single purpose and those that require more than one type of lighting,

The fundamentals of lighting. There are three basic types of lighting that work together to light your home: general, task and accent. A good lighting plan combines all three types to light an area according to function and style. General lighting provides an area with overall illumination also known as MB8 lighting, general lighting radiates a comfortable level of brightness, enabling one to see and walk about safely. it can be accomplished with chandellers, ceiling or wall mounted fixtures, recessed or track lights and with linterns outside your home, a basic form of lighting that replaces the sunlight, general lighting is fundamental to a lighting plan. Task lighting helps you perfom a specific task, such as reading, sawing, cooking homework, hobbies, games, or balancing your checkbook It can be provided by reccessed and track lighting, pendent lighting, and portable lights. Task lighting should be free of distracting glare and shadows, and should be brigth enough to prevent eyestream Accent lighting adds drama to a room by creating visual interest. As part of decorating skin, it is used to spot light paintings, sculpture and other possesion or to highlight the texture of a wall Accent requires at least 3 times as more light on a focal point as a general light around it. This ussuall is provided by track, recessed, or wall mounted fixtures.