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Accent lighting – Adding the right touch to your home lighting

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Accent lighting – With highly functional task lighting, spaces like the laundry room are brightly lit so that you can
see the whites versus the darks. However, such bright light does not create a soft mood or add drama; for this you
choose accent lightings.

Accent the mood with wall dimming options

First stop in creating mood and accent around the home is to incorporate wall dimmers to light fixtures, including
ceiling mounts and chandeliers. This approach is very commonplace and gives you options to fully accentuate the room
or produce softer more gentle lighting.

Emphasize artwork and wall hangings with accent lights

Adding a wall mounted museum light or picture light is an excellent way to accent fine artwork; two sconces positioned
on each side of the painting will also add emphasize. This can be done with any wall hanging: mirrors frames are nice
to accent.

Living room: downlights can emphasize an area

For social areas such as the living room you can both soften lighting and gently accentuate an area. For example,
adding a couple of down lights in the ceiling over a living room sofa, toned down with dimming options, can cast
gentle pools of light. This can accentuate the focus to this area while providing spillover light to the walls and
washing the whole room with pleasant light.

Accentuate and decorate a kids room with string lighting

For kids rooms string lighting can create wonderful accent to a nicely decorated bedroom. You can buy them in shapes
and themes such as: submarines, cars, hearts, stars and more. Not only will this add a nice accent and touch; colorful
lights can be used at night for children afraid of sleeping in complete darkness.

Originally posted 2009-09-12 21:57:20. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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