Bright ideas and new trends to light your home
IKEA
An essential element of any room, the right lighting can take a scheme from dark and dingy to cosy and welcoming with the flick of a switch. From glamorous Art Deco lamps to neon signs and whimsical moon lamps, we’ve rounded up the best ideas and new trends to bring light into your home. Click or scroll on for plenty of illuminating ideas…
Install bedroom pendant lights
At present, you can’t flick over to a bedroom makeover page in an interiors magazine that hasn’t installed a fabulous pair of bedroom pendant lights on either side of the bed. The symmetrical suspended lighting option frees up space on the nightstand and creates an incredible focal statement that highlights the bed. Of course, it also means you can forgo the furniture altogether—so makes the perfect small bedroom idea. And best of all? You don’t have to get out of bed to turn them off.
Larger than life
Lightsandlamps.com
Over-blown lighting statements make interesting focal points in rooms without structural features to show off. Super-sized ceiling drums, dominating floor lamps or decorative wall lights are set to be the centre of attention in living rooms and large open-plan living spaces.
Make it monochrome
Dulux
Monochrome decorating schemes that wrap rooms in one colour or tone create a stylish and contemporary vibe. Blending lighting into the scheme adds a three-dimensional element without upsetting the balance. We love this take on the trend where a copper-toned floor lamp peeps out from Dulux’s soft Dusted Heather tone of the upper walls but blends in perfectly below with a shade of Inca Orange below.