By Carl Jordan


Home decoration can come in lots of forms. You can decorate your new home by painting the walls, hanging art on the walls and placing sculptures and other decorative pieces throughout the house. Rugs, furniture and even your window treatments can be used in your decorating scheme. Did you know that light can also be used to decorate? The choices you make about your indoor lighting options will tell visitors a lot about you. The days when you use overhead lights and table lamps are over. Now there are more options out there than there are people to buy them. How can you decide which lighting options you should buy?

With so many different lighting options to buy, how do you know which shops are the best? Some people will advocate only shopping for your home lights at lighting specialty stores.

If you need a specific type of bulb (like a fluorescent light) or a light that has a complicated installation these stores are very helpful. These stores are also the most expensive shopping option. If your budget is tight you might think about shopping for your lights at a department store like Target: someplace that specializing in beautiful home furnishings but that is not expensive.

Also, be sure to research the types of bulbs that are available. Majority use just incandescent bulbs or the more energy efficient bulbs that are now more readily available. Many other types of lights are also available. Another option is to retain your fluorescent bulb just in a different size as a halogen bulb. While expensive to install, halogen lights will last longer than your average incandescent bulbs. They also radiate less heat, which is nice during the summer months. Vice versa, an incandescent light bulb, will help you to heat a room, if you like that idea.

Don't blow off the rest of your home's decorating scheme if you're trying to figure out your indoor lighting options. It will be easier for you to decide between all of the different lighting options if you keep to the decorating scheme that you have already chosen for the rest of your house. Houses that are filled with smaller focused pockets like reading corners and office nooks don't do well when they are lit with big diffuse light bulbs. You should use smaller lamps in these areas to focus your attention. Even the lights in your kitchen can follow the decorating scheme you use in the rest of your house. Big fluorescent bulbs won't do well in a kitchen that is in a house that is decorated with softer tones (track lighting is better).

You could choose from overhead lights or lamps. Incandescent and fluorescent bulbs were your only choices. All lighting was pretty standard white lighting. There are plenty of different options available today for people who don't like the idea of either of these choices. Of course, trying to decide which option is best can be difficult. It is important to be smart and consider all of your options before you start building your plan and shopping for lights. You'll thank yourself for doing this later.




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