Choosing the lighting for your home isn’t always easy. Aside from anything else, you have an enormous amount of choice. And while that is, theoretically, a good thing, increasing the likelihood that you’ll actually find what you have in mind, it can make decision-making harder. Choosing matching lighting sets is one of the easier options. But there are a few things you need to keep in mind when doing so.
Four Things to Consider When Choosing Matching Lights
Think of your lighting in layers
Regardless of the room you’re buying for, lighting should never be a single solution. To get the best from any space, you need to ensure that all bases are covered. In most rooms, that means ambient lighting, task lighting, and/or accent lighting. Which, in practical terms, breaks down into ceiling lights, wall lights, and lamps. You may not need all of these in a single room. But 99% of the time, you will need at least two of them. And that’s where selecting matching sets can come in. If you choose a range like the Huntington, for example, you can select from a choice of ceiling lights and lamps. Gaining instant aesthetic unity.
Understand your spaces
Matching lighting doesn’t need to be used throughout your home. But if you have an open-plan area, choosing different lights from within the same range creates cohesion, without absolute duplication. So, you might, for example, choose a large copper geometric pendant light to sit above your dining table, while selecting the matt black and copper geometric table lamps and cluster pendants for your living room. Then you can choose completely different ranges for the rest of your home.
Consider complementary designs
Choosing some matching lighting for a particular room doesn’t mean that you have to carry the theme completely. So, while you might opt for the gorgeous Knightswood antique gold pendant and wall lights, the fact that there isn’t a reading lamp in the range shouldn’t deter you from using the room to the full. While the design is clearly different, the opal floor light provides something of a golden glow when illuminated, and may well compliment the theme. While giving you the task lighting you need. The Quoizel Jenkins table lamp, on the other hand, brings gold in a different way, but may work well for brightening a shady corner.
You can have too much of a good thing
Just because there are multiple variants of your chosen lighting style, it doesn’t mean that you have to use them all. In a larger room, you may find that you want to coordinate the matt black with fluted glass floor light, mentioned above, with the matching pendant light and wall lights. And it can work wonderfully. But in a smaller room, that can be overkill. You want your home to look coordinated, not like a show room.
Matching light sets can be incredibly useful when you’re redecorating a room or a home. They help you to work to a theme without having to worry about clashes, contrasts, and complementary styles. But sometimes, bringing in something a little different can help to make the most of what you’ve got. So, don’t be afraid to change things up and make things interesting.
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