Learn How To Personalize Your Home With Lighting Design

By David Torkee Lieu


Getting the light you want

Lighting design is always beautiful and astounding. Light brightens everything around it, while impressive from it's own structure. The main purpose of lighting design, other than looking fancy, is to illuminate the intended subject/area. Simple light bulbs have been carrying out this simple task for many years now. It used to be that you could sort of "grab and go" when your light bulb shopping. Simply find one that fits and you're good to go. But now, due to the increasing demand for energy saving appliances as well as more intricate product designs, light bulbs are getting more and more sophisticated.

Many new appliances as well as newly modeled houses use various kinds of lighting within the house. Now, instead of being able to simply buy any light bulb as a replacement, we now have to look at the certain specifications of the appliance itself. For example, putting a 75 watt bulb in a 40 watt lamp creates almost twice as much heat that is intended to be within the "safe" level of heat for the lamp. The result could potentially create a fire. Not the type of light we want..

- Set up your desired amount of lighting

The kind of lights used in lighting design highly depend upon what the lights are intended to be used for and what kind of room/position the light is placed in. A lighting design intended for an art gallery, for example, must remain consistent throughout the room, through all periods of the day in which it is used. One of the most frustrating things that could happen to an artist while painting could be the noticing of slight changes in the colors. As lighting changes, so do the way we see certain colors or mixes of colors. Because of this, lighting design on an art gallery must hold a consistent tone (warm, florescent.. etc). On the other hand, lighting design within a bar is different because of its different purposes. Bars want to create an environment that is well lit, but at the same time not too bright. The targeted tone is sort of "mellow." A popular kind of lighting used in bars is pendant lighting, mainly because it is a single unit fixture that can be easily adjusted to suit the area's lighting needs.

- Make your design stand out

One place that's been particularly proven to really shine in the area of light design are auditoriums. Their main function is to try to deliver the performer(s) with plenty of light to be seen from all across the room. It is advisable to have auditorium lighting design well configured, as performers often incorporate the usage of various lights or strobes into their performance. The auditorium lighting design demands powerful lighting. These dramatic lighting systems include the utilization of front lighting, spot lights for individual illuminations, follow spot lights for movement, beam lights, and floor lights. Should your needs require such material, it's not necessarily uncommon for your project to need plenty of investments and work. Many auditorium lighting designs these days take light design creativity to a completely new level.




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