Lighting Design Samples

Ideas for Great Home Lighting
Sunset, a publisher of home design, home decoration and do-it-yourself books presents this book for home lighting. Subscription information is offered, as are links to other books about cooking and food.

Good Lighting Should be Both Practical and Decorative
Lighting designers Shelia Bridges and Eric Cohler have teamed up to produce a website covering the beauty of lighting and how the proper lighting can affect mood in a positive way, while the wrong lighting design, or the wrong type of light bulbs can actual destroy one's inner peace. For example, they discuss the proper angle for track lights and ways to highlight crown moldings properly. They discuss lighting placement to break up the lines of a room and to show off details in the kitchen. They discuss the best kind of light for task lighting and the best way to accent pictures and add drama to a room. Chandeliers are discussed in-depth, including the proper size chandelier for a dining room and for a living room. If you are interested in light as a way to make a personal statement, then this site clearly has you covered.

Lighting: Creating Visual Magic in the Garden
This web page features an article by a lighting expert on creating beautiful landscape lighting design for the exterior of the home. Topics covered include garden lighting, flood lighting, tree lighting, pools and ponds, and lighting for deck and patio. Different types of lamps and fixtures are discussed, along with safety, security, and specific exterior lighting design topics like step lighting, spot lighting, path lighting, shadowing, underwater lighting, and up-lighting. A very thorough article for people interested in do it yourself lighting design for the exterior.

Let Better Homes & Gardens Help You Light Up Your Life
Lighting is so important to creating the correct mood for any room, any home. This helpful article from Better Homes & Gardens discusses various types of lighting and the best ways to achieve them. First is a discussion of General Lighting and the best ways to achieve a general overall brightness to any room, but most especially the kitchen, through a combination of lighting sources including a central ceiling mounted feature, properly spaced can lighting, and recessed spotlights around the perimeter of the kitchen. Task lighting, especially as it refers to the kitchen, is best achieved, according to this article, through a combination of ceiling or wall mounted fixtures, under-cabinet lighting, and small sized fluorescent bulbs and halogen track lights. Accent lighting can be used to spotlight a kitchen's best feature and is best achieved through a mixture of track lights, wall mounted lights, and recessed lights which are brighter than the general lighting. The use of a dimmer can add mood. The article is rounded out with a helpful discussion of bulb types, including incandescent, fluorescent, and tungsten-halogen.

Outdoor Garden Lighting
Information about outdoor garden lighting techniques is detailed in this collection of garden lighting tips. Includes how to set a scene featuring cross lighting, shadowing, silhouetting, path lighting, up-lighting, spread-lighting, accent and spotlighting. Descriptions of various landscapes give visitors ideas about what type of garden lighting to select