| | OCTOBER 20245Lighting Brands: Illuminating every space Uniquely, Beautifully, & BrightlyEditorialCreating an interior design project without a lighting designer is like going out for dinner and only eating what's in the bread basket. The bread may be excellent, but you're missing out on many more interesting dishes. Expertly placed lighting adds another dimension to a space, bringing an interior design project to life.Great lighting creates depth and height, cosy spots, and draws attention to your most impressive areas. It's all about the balance of light and shade and bringing new energy to an interior. An architect or interior designer may just draw a grid of downlights into their plans for your interior, which won't do justice to what they have designed. Calling in lighting design experts to work in harmony with your interior designer or architect will maximise the impact of your space.To create a well-balanced and inviting interior, it's essential to understand and incorporate the four main types of lighting: ambient, task, accent, and decorative lighting. Each type serves a distinct purpose and, when layered together, can transform any space into a harmonious and visually stunning environment. Along with these lights, daylight is a crucial factor for all designers. Interior designers and lighting designers are monitoring how daylight enters each space they work on ­ it will affect where everything is positioned. It's as important as artificial light. In a living space with expansive glazing, daylight will pour in making it feel bright and open. So then we think how to handle the artificial light ­ and offer different options throughout the day. Further, Architectural lights still play a role where there's daylight. Use it to brighten dark spots in shelving, add brilliance to a task area or to highlight artworks. LED linear strips bring warmth to joinery and key features in your room and may be needed with the natural light to add focus and softness. The key solution is to manage lighting options for different times of day using a combination of daylight and artificial light. We can have pre-set options on a switch pad to achieve the optimum results. At last, the Decorative lighting ­ such as a dramatic pendant, interesting wall light or feature lamp ­ does more than add attractive objects to a room. Our eye may be drawn to a large and pleasing pendant over a table, but the work of a couple of downlights either side will really add to the quality of the light.As a whole, `Light' plays a crucial role in interior design and architecture, as it impacts the visual comfort of users and defines the overall ambiance of interiors. Between innovative technologies, environmental awareness, and architecture and design trends, lighting systems nowadays have evolved beyond its evident function. Notably, `Light' has become a design strategy and a statement that maximizes the functional and aesthetic quality of a space. As for how our interiors will be lit in a few years or decades, we can expect more and more innovations with materiality such as using organic materials to generate light, connecting bulbs to devices to increase convenience and save energy, or a return to the most basic forms of nature.Heena KousarManaging Editoreditor@homesindiamagazine.com
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