When It Comes To Lighting Your Home, Identify!

Lighting Your Home

Lighting can make a big difference in the interior environment of your home. Good lighting used properly helps you to see better and perform tasks more easily. It also provides safety, security and a sense of comfort. Lighting and lighting controls also provide you with the flexibility to adjust and adapt the mood and ambiance of your home.

Lighting fixtures are ideal, and often inexpensive, accessories to supplement the interior design of your home. With an unlimited range of styles, shapes, colors and sizes, lighting fixtures can add sparkle and a final, finishing touch to your décor.

Properly used lighting should complement your lifestyle and meet your family's needs. When planning your home's lighting, keep these tips in mind:

• Identify the activities that occur in each room (reading, food preparation, hobby work, grooming, laundry, homework, etc.).
• Identify the mood or ambiance that you want to create in each space.
• Identify any decorative elements you wish to emphasize, such as artwork or wall textures.
• Identify areas with dark wall colors and finishes. These areas absorb more light than those with lighter finishes, so supplemental lighting may be required.
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The Four Basic Lighting Objectives Of Backyard Lighting

Aesthetics or Beautify: Well placed lighting will enhance any landscape by bringing out the beauty, textures and shapes of your shrubs, trees, wall surfaces. 

Focal points such as a Fountain, Statue or Gazebo can be highlighted in the garden. Lighting will also help set the mood that fits your individual taste and styles for evening entertaining.

Usability: Landscape lighting will make the outside of your home a extension of the inside. Pool areas are lighted for safety, Patios open up for entertaining or just relaxing and it lets you and guest enjoy your landscape at night.

Safety: A primary function of night lighting is to illuminate hazard areas such as steps, low branches, and abrupt changes in path directions or elevation. Even though you know your property well, your guest may not.

Security: It is a proven fact that a well lit home will deter home intrusion. Landscape lighting properly designed and installed can make a would be intruder uncomfortable by removing the dark shadow areas of your property. It also allows you or your neighbors to see and identify a potential intruder.  www.desertlighting.com