It is no secret that lighting can make or break a room. The secret lies in the several diverse forms and functions where we can bring lighting into the room. Too often we fall back to the ever-reliable table lamp or typical overhead pendant light — not that there’s anything wrong with those options — but maybe it’s time to think outside the box just a little bit.
Consider altering the look for your room with a new spin on your lighting. Here are some photos to receive your ideas moving.
Mal Corboy Design
You might not even think to put lighting at your toes, but this fluorescent tube across the base of this kitchen island provides this space a modern zest. Along with the blue tint brings in the view of the water from outside.
Yaniv Schwartz – Photographer
A fixture itself may totally change how lighting is perceived in a room. Instead of the regular wall sconce, this amazing fixture gives a practical yet ethereal glow that provides this modern toilet eclectic character.
Wright Street Design Group Inc..
Create a series of light sources with a run of back-lit lightboxes. Not only does this offer mild, but in this scenario, the screen will help camouflage the TV.
Birdseye Design
Don’t wish to go through the fuss of wiring lighting? Find a piece of furniture that glows. This bright onyx table will maintain your cocktail and offer enough light for a late-night conversation.
Who needs paint when you’re able to outfit your room in polycarbonate walls enhanced by colored lighting? What else could have been a fairly typical modern bedroom just on a sophisticated couch appeal with this neon hue.
Laidlaw Schultz architects
Consider lighting fixtures that look more like a work of art than practical lighting for an added sculptural effect. Not only will this fixture turned into a likely focal point, but every bulb can be angled to light your whole room.
1800Lighting
Pendant lights take on a whole new meaning when rested in addition to this carved piece in this fixture. After the light is switched on, it is going to result in different shapes that will dancing across this dining table.
Ira Frazin Architect
If you have a large room and do not desire recessed ceiling lights, then go big or go home with a fixture that will work just as well, while incorporating a surprise and sense of fun.
Beckwith Interiors
If you believe a corner is merely a spot to adjoin walls, then think again. Sneak in a panel of colored glass and back-light it with LED lighting, and your corner won’t ever be the exact same again.
For a hint of playfulness, outfit your hallway with a collection of oversize globe lights. Hang them at different heights in order that they take on the guise of bubbles.
Elad Gonen
Don’t simply recess your overhead lighting. Recess it in continuous line that goes from ceiling, down the walls and into the ground. In reality, do it twice, and replicate it on the opposite side of the room. Then stand back and marvel at its coolness.
Joel Kelly Design
Here’s a different fixture that takes on the expression of an artform as much as it does a supply of lighting. Its rectangular shape is the best complement to the clean, straight lines of this kitchen.
BiglarKinyan Design Planning Inc..
Set your pub a-glow by installing a partition before your own wall and then back-lighting it. Before you know it, your cellar will become the coolest bar in the city.
Beckwith Interiors
It is hard to tear your eyes away from this superbly constructed stairwell, but after you do, you’ll observe the customized tube light running through the middle. If you have winding stairs as magnificent as these, light them from top to bottom for a true showcase.
Sutton Suzuki Architects
Don’t have a winding staircase? No worries: Wall-mount fixtures may still put them on screen. These tiny light sources feel like twinkling stars across the staircase.
Arijit
Want to create a bathtub worthy of a 5-star resort? Light it up! All that’s missing from this scene is really a glass of wine and a great book.
Stray Dog Designs
Stray Dog – pendant light – $450
Here are a few unique light fixtures that will definitely make an impression in your home. I love the playful retro feel of this pendant light from Stray Dog.
YLighting
Cicatrices De Luxe 8 Pendant Light From Philippe Stark – $5,412
This fixture by Philippe Starck takes glassware screen to a whole new level. One that hangs in mid-air and lighting your dining table, to be precise.
Modern Pendant Lighting – $800
The Spica Light from Iacoli & McAllister mixes a sculptural presence with all the regular Edison bulb.
Produced in Design
Canned Light Pendant from Ingo Maurer – GBP 158
I bet Andy Warhol could have happily lit his home with this quirky pendant light created from a Cambell’s soup can from Ingo Maurer.
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