Interior Design Lighting

What Is The Mood Of The Interior Design Lighting?

Interior Design Lighting is one of the least understood aspects of interior design and yet natural and artificial lighting are essential to how a room is perceived.

The effects of natural light can be controlled through the use of fabric window treatments. Modern artificial lighting techniques can inhabit a space as well as give it colour and atmosphere. Through a balance of ambient, task and accent lighting and a selection of blinds, curtains and shades, interior design lighting can create a mood that works on any occasion.

Interior Design Lighting Scheme
The way that a space or a room is perceived can be influenced and controlled. A versatile interior design lighting scheme can influence the response to a particular style or look.

Whether the lighting is natural or artificial, it alters colors, textures and shapes. It can shift attention and emphasize a particular space or area through the careful balance of different light sources.

Interior design lighting is a very effective tool to highlight the best parts of a room and distract from its weaknesses

Color
Color is totally dependent on light. Light shapes the natural response to particular shades and tones. As light strikes an object, some of the light is absorbed and some is reflected and it is the reflected rays that determine the colour that the highly selective human eye and brain perceive.

When white light shines through a glass prism, it projects all the colours of the spectrum. Even in its undivided state, it will either have a slightly blue bias that will characterize the light as being cool or a red bias which will characterize the light as having a warmer tone.

As different light sources give off different colored white light, it is important to consider this when selecting a lighting scheme that will determine the atmosphere of a room.

Three Key Elements
Interior Design Lighting is based on three key elements.

• Ambient lighting for everyday uses,
• Task lighting for specific activities,</ li>
• Accent lighting for highlighting a particular area.

All three elements need to be uniformly balanced, keeping the function and the atmosphere of the room in mind.

General lighting require a consistent light level throughout the space and may use direct sources such as recessed fixtures or indirect sources such as a small lamp on a table.

Task lighting provides particular activities such as a study, bedroom reading, or kitchen work with concentrated light that preferably does not cast shadow or glare on the area targeted.

Accent lighting uses a key light to focus on a specific area or object such as a work of art. The right illumination can enhance a dreary space or make a room seem larger.

Conclusion
For a room to function properly, it needs proper interior design lighting. The interior design lighting is also an aesthetic choice which sets the mood for the room. Without good lighting even the most stylish room can become dull and characterless.

Lighting is seldom considered to be a contributory factor in the success or failure of a room because our understanding of it is limited but no design for a room is complete unless it takes into account the placement, the color and the mood of the light.