Home Decoration,Home Design

Light is one important factor for human’s living in order to provide additional brightness from nature light (sun light) or for help on doing activities smoothly and safe.

Apart from the benefit in terms of helping people doing activities in everyday life, light also have other benefits in terms of one element of the decoration. The format and design of lighting and details that build the attractiveness to your house. However, one of the important element is the style and detail of lighting can build or change people feeling and room’s atmosphere as well as can distinct the detail of the building architecture outstandingly in order to emphasize the beauty of decoration.

Using light in your house/building
There are two important element that you have to consider when using light in your house/building one is the source of the light, which directly related to light bulb, and the second element is the countenance, which directly related to lantern or lampshade.

To arrange lighting in a house you should not consider only the shape of the lamp, but you should also consider the quality and its ability on light extension and filtering too.
There are three main characteristics of light extension and filtering.
1. The light that constantly spread to every direction
2. The light that shine focus to only one direction but still spread out a bit to other area.

We have to choose the character of illuminating in order to the most suitability of using light in each part of the house. Generally, there are three character of using light in house/building.

1. Background Lighting
This type of lighting is necessary for everyday life. You need background light in order to do activities during night time. Generally, background light is from the lamp that stick or hang on the ceiling (Pendant) or you may use other type of lamp such as wall lamp or , the lamp that shine directly to the ceiling and reflect to the area below (Uplight) or you may use desk lamp All of this style of lighting are more interesting than using only one lamp fixed on the ceiling.

2. Lighting for work (Task Light)
We use task light in the area such as a kitchen, bar counter, office or where have works happen very often. These area need more brightness level but you should be careful not to install the lamp at position that shadow of the light fall to the working area.
The type of lamp that suitable for working area are those kind that can adjust the direction such as ceiling lamp, lamp for office desk (adjustable) , spot light or any other kind of lamp that give more power of brightness. You can also use the same type of lamp where installed at the dark area that need much brightness such as at the ladder corner, fence lamp or outside the house.

3. Accent Light
We use accent light to focus on certain point that we need to emphasizes of decoration.
The lamp that provide this type of light picture light or any kind that provide light that focus to one point of area.