For years lighting was one interior
designing tool which was highly underestimated until recently when the craze of
LED lighting in homes has begun and everybody is incorporating it. These lights
offer a lot of advantages and very few disadvantages, probably none, which is
why the trend of LED lighting in doing up homes has caught on and is here to
stay for a long time. One of the most important and differentiating advantage
is that they are far more versatile and efficient than other lights such as
incandescent bulbs or fluorescent lights. Another advantage being that these
lights produce heat but do not radiate it out like other decorative lights.
They say good lighting is about creating
layers of different lighting effects. It is believed and even observed that
good and apt lighting can create magic in the simplest and most boring corners
of your house. Perfect lighting can make a normal shower feel very dramatic and
relaxing, it can bring out the textures in walls, basically objects start
speaking if there is adequate lighting in the house, and what better if the
lighting comes at a very minimal cost as opposed to other kind of lights.
So here we present to you, some
unique and never used before ideas for lighting up your homes for it to have a
personality and make a statement of its own.
- Highlighting: Gone are those days when the world was recently introduced to the concept of False ceilings embedded with tiny LED lights and every other person made sure that their master bedroom and living room had them. Instead of that, highlight key corners, paintings, showers, textures of walls, or some parts of the wall or ceiling. As they say, less is more nowadays.
- Be creative: Somehow these LED lights look the best when mixed with a tint of innovation and creativity. As opposed to hanging strings of these lights they could be put in used wine/rum bottles and placed at strategic places in groups of 4-5 displayed on different levels of height.
- Color Kinetic LED lighting: So this is one new technique of using LED lights. It involves placing LED strip lights behind or below the glass which are sort of hidden or do not appear to be like normal glass. This is most widely used in kitchens (slabs) or for cupboards. Also, the invisibility of the lights makes it look more attractive and desirable.
- Ribbon lighting for the courtyard: Not only should you make the inside of your house bright with lights, but also the garden and the swimming pool/recreation area, and do it differently for your home. If the area has raised decks or stairs, a ribbon LED light could be pasted on each of them or probably add light strips to the edges of your walls. Along with the ribbon LEDs, one can also add the normal LED lights inside the swimming pool to make the entire experience visually relaxing and attractive.
- Make shadows: LED lights these days are used in a way such that they are made to fall on an object and the object creates a shadow on the floor or the wall. Whichever lights you use, be it ribbon strips or other strips, make sure that they cast a shadow on any permanent object.
- Pendent Lights: One of the most common latest trends for LED lighting has been the usage of Pendent lights or suspending lights from the wall. Apart from installing small circular LED lights in the ceiling, suspend two or three pendant lamps and attach them from the ceiling or probably use a chandelier. This should be done mostly over kitchen slabs or in dining halls.
- 7 Crazy lights: We have always believed that water is blue in color. What if one day you open your tap and you see green or red colored water flowing into your hands. This can actually be true using some of our LED lights and fixing it in the water faucet. Special units called Single hole spring LED lights are used for the same.
- Let the Furniture shine too: One of the very trendy and recent trends has been to give a new look to your furniture by fixing it up with LED lights around the edges or corners or even make LED panels with patterns. Mostly dining tables, sofas and beds are being transformed by using LED lights.
Written by: Sejal Goyal