MODERN LIGHTING: A CHOICE OF STYLE

How important the lighting inside a house might seem almost superfluous to even clarify. And yet it is a subject that often and willingly risks being underestimated or not considered with due care.

Illuminating a space in the most correct way can completely change the perception that one has of it and, as if by magic, making small spaces seem large, dispersive rooms can appear intimate and collected, what is cold can become hot and vice versa. In short, light is a complement to furniture like any other element present in the house indeed, as fundamental as a real architectural intervention.

Making the right choices help to create and enhance a furnishing style. A studied lighting system can indeed make a more modern environment or classic vice versa.

As in the choice of the distribution of the rooms, the color of the walls and the furnishings, the importance of good design from the point of view of light design, is to enhance the character of one's own house, highlighting its strengths. In this regard it is essential to make an accurate study of what is useful, environment by environment, positioning different light points in each room in order to create different effects according to need and considering that, in addition to having an aesthetic value, the light must be before anything else functional.

Think about how you live every single space and what you need: in the bedroom, you will need softer lighting than the living area, but at the same time with light points useful for reading or getting up at night, while in the wardrobe area you will need to see with ease and with clarity what you are going to wear and in the kitchen what you are preparing, in the bathroom you will need a different type of light from the dining area and so on.

1.     How to make a home with the right lighting more modern

2.     LED strips: the protagonists of modern lighting

How to make a home with the right lighting more modern

Today the lighting systems have been enriched with new technologies such as panels or luminous strips even in residential use: no longer just bulbs and spotlights, but in the warm light of traditional bulbs the more modern and uniform shades of LED bulbs have been added, also advantageous from the energy point of view. Moreover with the integrated dimmer systems to regulate the intensity it is possible to obtain with the same system both intense lights and more suffused atmospheres.

In short, it is now possible to play with light in many ways: just think of the positioning of the LED strips. While the use of the panels placed on walls and ceilings or as horizontal support surfaces statically mix the lighting concept with that of the art installation.

LED strips: the protagonists of modern lighting

So how to create modern lighting that is the protagonist of our environments?

Greater versatility can be found in the choice of strips as a considerable change in the perception of the spaces themselves. If placed for example behind a piece of furniture, they will make it stand out in an incredible way compared to the wall behind it, giving the whole environment a decidedly suggestive allure and creating a focal point inside the room. The same effect can be obtained by using the strips to emphasize the progress of an architectural emergency such as a staircase, a simple step or a supporting septum: depending on how they are placed, the luminous strips will highlight one element rather than another, dividing volumes through the use of light design. But the use of strips can also, be functional: like under the kitchen cabinets in the hob or in the backlight of a bathroom mirror. The important thing is not to abuse these lighting systems, which in any case are very protagonists and risk weighing down the overall enjoyment of the same environment: it will be enough to use just a few of them, sparingly.

And to think that once we were content to just put a light bulb hanging from the ceiling in every room.