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Lighting Guide: Living Room

Considered to be one of the most used rooms in your household, the lounge/living room is the ideal first step on the journey to fabulous lighting. The key to mastering the living room lies within balance and layering. Ensure that your light is of perfect size to balance with the room, a light that is too big will hog the room space and draw too much attention away from the rest of the décor. Additionally, a light too small will not bring enough attention to the room, you need something that is just right to perfectly compliment the effect you wish to bring to your setting.

Second step is to consider layering, once you have got a good ceiling light think about layering up with matching wall lights, table lamps and/or floor lamps to not only add to the rooms décor but to add to the versatility of the lights in your room.

Make sure to look for ranges that have matching table and floor lamps in their ranges.

Consider any existing metal that is in the room already; such as door handles, wall sockets or fireplaces, if you are not planning on changing them, then match with the lighting. Don’t worry about matching too closely to any existing metal colours as quite often a two-tone metal colour works very well anyway (I.E Polished chrome and satin chrome).

Make a relaxing tone by using soft coloured metals and implementing opal glass and/or silks and fabrics. This will help diffuse the light meaning a softer tone throughout the room which isn’t as harsh and piercing on your eyes. Ultimately this gives a much softer and relaxed tone to the living space.

Match Ceiling Lights to table and floor lamps.

Consider the natural light that is coming into the room, anything like windows, doors or conservatories can provide an abundance of natural light and will play a key role in selecting how much light you want from your fittings. A final point to consider, if your using this light frequently it is worth investing in LED bulbs, with up to 90% energy saving and lasting up to 25 times longer than your usual incandescent or halogen light bulb these will maximise the efficiency of the lights.

I hope you enjoyed our first lighting guide! Please make sure to comment, like and share as well as telling us if there is any specific room you want us to touch upon next!

by sherwoodlights

A Light Introduction: Sherwood Lighting

Hello there Light readers, we shall be using this blog to keep you all up to date with the latest news in the light industry alongside the most popular products and techniques used in the industry.

First I thought I would introduce us to my own company, Sherwood Lighting. Sherwood Lighting has over 30 years’ experience in supplying and fitting high-quality lighting to customers around the UK. Boasting one of the most quality suppliers of lighting in Nottingham we are proud to say that much of our business is from regular, repeat customers who appreciate the expert advice and guidance our friendly and helpful team can provide. From our centrally located UK base, we are also able to offer the same exceptional service levels to customers across the country ordering from our website.

For previews of our lighting displays please keep an eye on our instagram page (located at the bottom of the page) for more information on our activity as well as our facebook and twitter pages at Sherwood Lighting. Stay with us as we go forward and we shall help you through placing your light around the house or outside, wherever you wish! We are here for you.