The amount of required light varies from room to room. In the bedroom, serene and soft ambience invites you for a peaceful cozy sleep. Play-rooms with strong and bright glow invigorate the little ones with energy.
A dull and poor lighted room snatches away the zeal of work and thrust the individual to laziness. Brightness is must in study room so that you may not suffer from eyestrain. Living room could be made more interesting by the use of various accent lights. So long and so far, luminescence of any edifice plays a vital role in enhancing its beauty and comfort. Even for a non professional it is important to have the basic idea of lighting types. However, an expert consultancy is always beneficial in the end. Usually artificial lighting is divided into three types:
1. Ambient Lighting
2. Task Lighting
3. Accent Lighting
Ambient Lighting
It is also known as general lighting, which is used to illumine the overall atmosphere without a glare. Chandeliers, ceiling or wall-mounted fixtures are its most common examples. Chandeliers are hung in large open foyers, entryways and rooms because of their centrally themed position. A poor lighted room looks small, shabby and cramped, so general lighting brightens up the entirety of a room.
Task Lighting
The object of such lights is to perform specific tasks comfortably providing sufficient brightness. Recessed or track lights are used for it. These lights focus the luminosity to a particular area, making it brighter than the rest of the room. While studying, painting, making or cooking food these beams help the individual to work. Pendant lighting, under cabinet lighting, portable floor and desk lamps are its examples.
Accent lighting
Accent lighting draws the eye attraction to a specific point. These are meant to highlight the beauty of any painting, sculpture, prized possession, plants or decorative handicraft in the rooms. Sometimes they are also used to highlight the texture of a brick wall. It is necessary that the strength of an accent light must be three times more than the ambient light so that it may attract the attention to a particular object.
Lighting needs to serve a purpose or it simply wastes electricity. Decorative lighting creates moods while functional lighting meets the needs of individuals. Nowadays wall sconces with various shapes, sizes, colors, and styles, pendants with regular flair and chandeliers like a cascade of crystals flowing from ceiling serve both aesthetic as well as functional purposes.
