Architectural Lighting Techniques to Enhance Your Interior Design
Bring Intrigue & A Pop of Color to Your Lakewood Home
Many homeowners brighten their homes with a single light at the center of the ceiling or a floor lamp in the corner, using any old light bulb. But architectural lighting dares you to dream bigger.
With architectural lighting, we approach lighting as an art and science, designing a system that accentuates a room’s layout, wall colors, artwork, and furniture. Architectural lighting combines lighting layouts with color and brightness levels to create comfortable, liveable spaces.
Whether you’re renovating or building a new house in the Lakewood area of Dallas, here’s how our architectural lighting services can transform the way you illuminate your home.
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Creating Light Layers
The key to a beautifully-lit home is to use many forms of lighting that may be easily added or removed with a press of a button. Here are six types of lighting techniques we use in our designs:
Downlighting & Uplighting
Downlighting and uplighting are popular in landscape lighting, but they can provide focused light indoors, too. Uplighting adds an ambient element to any space, creating the illusion of an elongated ceiling. Downlights are excellent for task lighting and ideal in a kitchen or office space.
Wall Washes & Floor Washes
No, we don’t mean washing the floor or walls with a sponge and soap. A lighting ‘floor wash’ adds a layer of light that skims along the floor and guides you through a hallway or room. Wall washes create a smooth, even ‘wash’ over the wall without any shadows.
Ceiling Coffers
If your house has coffered ceilings, we can use recessed or linear lighting to accentuate the architectural details in rectangular, square, or octagonal grids.
Track & Linear Lighting
We use track lighting and linear lights to frame a room and add striking beams of light along the ceiling, between steps, and under surfaces. Smart color-changing features allow you to customize the lights’ hue anytime with a tap on your mobile device.
Shelving & Joinery
Shelving and joinery lights bring softness and illumination to bookshelves, art displays, and cabinets. Front lights, backlights, and even tiny spotlights transform each shelf into a window, creating a new light feature to behold. And when synced to the lighting control system, you can play with color and brightness settings to set the mood.
Decorative Lamps
Not all fixtures are meant to be hidden or recessed. We provide state-of-the-art designer lamps and decorative LED fixtures that can be synced to the same smart lighting system as the rest of the house.
Achieving Proper Color & Brightness
Choosing light fixtures and ideal locations is essential, but so is each bulb's brightness and color output. We use LED lights with proper CRI (Color Rendering Index) to show the true colors of objects in your home.
Take a look at this video to see how CRI influences how colors appear!
The higher the CRI settings, the more vibrant colors appear in artwork, fabrics, and wall coverings. However, CRI is different from color temperature. We use smart control systems to customize the brightness levels and warmth or coolness of your LED lights, so the end result is a gorgeously lit home with an inviting atmosphere.
If you’re interested in our architectural lighting solutions and would like to learn more for your Lakewood, Dallas-area home, contact Integrated Lifestyles here. We look forward to working with you!
