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Home Lighting Tips For Dramatic Effect

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



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