| Home lighting can greatly enhance the ambience | | | | To create a cozier look you want to choose |
| of your surroundings. It is not only | | | | lighting that is smaller and that has large shades |
| cinematographers and lighting designers who can | | | | crouched over the bulb. This means choosing a |
| use lighting to enhance a room. You too can | | | | more traditional lamp with a stem and that has a |
| enhance your environment by using the same | | | | glass or paper shade. It is nice to place these |
| tricks that these professionals do to make a | | | | types of lamps near an armchair where people |
| room look more dramatic, cozy orromantic. | | | | spend a time reading or on top of a high piece of |
| If you are after a dramatic look then the key is | | | | furniture such as a piano so that an ambient, soft |
| to choose lamps that have light bulbs with a high | | | | glow is cast over the entire room. |
| strong beam and that can be directly focused to | | | | Choosing lamps that have yellow or cream shades |
| highlight only certain objects. Drama is created | | | | also helps add to create this cozy effect. Another |
| using light through contrasts so the idea is to not | | | | good choice is a lamp with a Tiffany shade, which |
| have too much ambient or "stray" light. | | | | has colored panes of glass that spread a soft |
| The best type of lighting to create dramatic | | | | warm glow. |
| effects is created with halogen bulbs. You can find | | | | Creating a romantic effect with lighting can be a |
| all kinds of styles of halogen lighting online or in | | | | bit more complicated depending on what type of |
| stores but the most versatile style will resemble | | | | effect you desire. Most people want this type of |
| an octopus with bulbs at the end of the arm. | | | | lighting to be quite dim so freestanding wire lamps |
| Usually these are made of bendable metal so you | | | | that are covered completely with round or cubic |
| can angle three or more of the light sources | | | | shaped Japanese rice paper shades can create |
| wherever you want in the room. To create a | | | | the effect that the "lights are turned down low". |
| dramatic effect, try aiming these bulbs so that | | | | The odd glowing shapes that this style of lamp |
| they specifically highlight a display of flowers in a | | | | have are most commonly available at Ikea and |
| vase, a valued piece of freestanding art or a | | | | Japanese shops. |
| favorite photograph on the wall. | | | | You can also buy lamps that have bulbs shaped |
| Another example of a very dramatic lamp is the | | | | like candlesticks that are on dimmers and that can |
| style from the seventies that features a long | | | | be adjusted to the quality of light that best suits |
| wire arm that extends like a fishing pole with a | | | | you. Lamp shades that cast a pink or rose light |
| globe shaped glass lampshade on the end. This is | | | | are said to be the most flattering to skintone. |
| the ultimate in seventies retro right now and very | | | | Another rule of thumb is that the broader or |
| much in fashion if you want to make a strong | | | | more conical the lamp shade shape is, the softer |
| statement. | | | | and dimmer the light emanating from it will be. |