Lighting plays an important role in our everyday life. Even if you have a small studio, you can make it very impressive with the help of lighting. The only precaution is remembering about the limits of the lighting and not making it too excessive.

You usually don’t spend much time in your bedroom during the day. All you need to do there is prepare for your sleep, read and sleep, get up, groom yourself – and that is it. So, in your bedroom you have a small but quite active period of your wakefulness. That is why the lighting should correspond to all your needs.

While some people may not like decorative lighting, everyone has some local sources of light. For example, many people need a night lamp – a small lamp with dispersed light that has two important functions: it provides us with lighting during the night and serves as a decorative element of the room in the daytime.

Another source of local lighting is a bedside lamp that gives us some light while we read, daydream or look at the clock. There are many variants of a bedside lamp – it can be a table lamp, a floor lamp, a wall lamp or recessed lighting. The latter type shouldn’t be placed too low; otherwise it will be able to serve as a night lamp only. The same thing concerns table lamps.

Wall lamps are usually placed on the height of 5-6 feet, but you have to make sure you now the width o your bed in order to place the wall lamps symmetrically. Some nice lights for this purpose you can find at or store on Global Lighting page.

A floor lamp, a torchier, for example is a very convenient source of lighting because of its independence. It’s perfect for local lighting; moreover, you can create an effective lighting by placing some floor lamps at different spots in the room.

What concerns the switches, you should have at least two of them in your bedroom: at the entrance and near the bed. It’s not difficult to do, besides it will turn out to be very convenient. You can switch the light on when you enter the room and switch it off when you’re in the bed ready to go to sleep. As you see, local lighting is a necessary attribute of your bedroom, so you should always consider this point when you’re thinking about the lighting in you new bedroom.

A modern living room is one of the most important rooms in the house, where the hosts, their guests and friends gather together on some occasions and to spend some time together. That’s why the living room’s design should be well done. Other reasons are that your living room represents your whole house to those who visit it and it is also the place where you relax with your family.

While working out the design you should remember that the room has to be divided into several areas. One area will serve for the guests – there you may place a big dining table with chairs. Other areas will be recreational with such things like a stereo system or a TV set serving as centers of these areas. It is necessary that all types of lighting for different areas were carefully considered. We can use both general and local lighting for the living room, the latter can be functional as well as decorative.

If the central part of the room is the guest area, then a general lighting can be used there. A chandelier, pendants, adjustable spotlights – anything will do. You can also get some ideas in our shop – check out Corbett Lighting or Fire Farm products.

In the area where you have a comfortable couch, armchairs and a coffee table you can set up a floor lamp or wall lights that will make the setting even cozier. You can use the same lighting for the area with your TV set, but make sure that no direct light falls on the screen. Lighting should be warm and dispersed, allowing you to concentrate on the movie you’re watching.

You can enhance your living room with all kinds of lights – you can accentuate some bookshelves, pictures, vases and aquariums. Lights with a dimmer that allows to control the brightness will be an asset, too.
Today almost nothing is impossible – free your imagination and create your special living room.

Today we observe a tendency to minimization, and it affects every aspect of our life - minimum paperwork at our offices, minimum eccentricity in our clothes and so on. Modern house designs are the best examples of minimalism. It had affected even the sphere of lighting.

Farewell to the excessive decorative lampshades and many crystal links. No more gorgeous chandeliers. Today metallic lampshade gain ore and ore popularity, metal laces with the bulbs hidden inside of them can be seen in many houses. Many people prefer simple solutions and lampshades in the shape of a sphere or trapezium of matte glass.

Of course, there are original solutions for those who don’t want to waste money – they make a lampshade for their ceiling lamps from an umbrella, simply hanging it upside down from the ceiling. But this is probably and exception that proves the general rule. Simple and austere torchieres and table lamps firmly occupy our living rooms, bedrooms and cabinets. People also buy the so-called ‘cold-styled’ floor lamps that have a metallic stem and simple glass lampshade with no décor at all.

Another trait of the minimalism in lighting is recessed and hidden lighting. In this case sources of light are placed along the walls and hidden by a special ridge. It helps to enlarge the room’s volume and turn our attention away from the lights. There is also a tendency of using the lights that are embedded in the furniture or wall niches, or come together with mirrors and shelves as a united piece.

Though romantic people can be happy - real candles are always popular. Even today candles are considered to me the main decoration of a dining table.