One of the most relaxing ways to light your home is with a soft ambient glow. In the evening, when you’re winding down for bed or with the curtains drawn for an afternoon movie with friends, having soft lighting in your home allows you to set the mood without stumbling over furniture. Lighting doesn’t always have to be brilliant and illuminating. Lighting can be soft and relaxing instead. In fact, with smart lights, they can be both.
The best ambient lighting comes from thoughtful interior design. Which light fixtures you choose and where you place them will shape your soft-glow environment when you dim the lights at home for rest, movies, or romance.
Diffused Light Strips Along the Ceiling
One of the greatest innovations in recent lighting has been LED strips. These are strips of tiny LED diodes that you can mount anywhere in your home. They illuminate countertops when attached below upper cabinets; they can line your television in a soft glow, or provide gentle overhead light when mounted along the ceiling.
Highlight the lines of your room and beautiful architectural features with the ambient glow of overhead light strips. If you want to soften the twinkle of individual diodes, seek a light rope or use a milky diffuser strip.
Candle Glow Wall Sconces
Wall sconces are a classic way to achieve romantic soft lighting. We have been hanging candles and lanterns on the walls as lighting for many hundreds of years. Wall sconces are reminiscent of candle sconces and hurricane lanterns from our design styles just before electricity was introduced to the modern home. Today, frosted glass or artfully sculptural sconces are a great way to provide soft lighting around the room.
Luminescent Sculpture
There are few things more mesmerizing than a glowing sculpture. Today, you can find dozens of designs in LED sculptures for coffee tables or to mount on your wall. Some are prebuilt to glow and some can even be built into a new glowing sculpture each week using fit-together pieces and your own creative inspiration.
A glowing sculpture is always a conversation piece when friends visit and can add a beautifully futuristic element to your interior design.
Glowing Wall Panels
Wall panels are the new innovation of interior lighting. These diffused LED panels glow in elegant shapes and patterns mounted on your wall. At full brightness, they can illuminate a room and when turned down low they add color-changing ambiance to your space. You choose the design and the light level by putting the panel shapes together in your own unique way.
Pro tip: Use a mounting board so it is easy to rebuild the sculpture if you want to change the style or arrangement of the panels at any time.
Smart Bulb Chandeliers
Today, even your glowing chandeliers can adapt to the mood of the room – and we don’t mean a dimmer knob. Smart bulbs installed into a pendant light array or even a twinkling crystal chandelier give you full illumination and color control of your overhead light fixtures. Smart bulbs are voice-activated or can be controlled silently through a few taps of a mobile app.
In fact, glowing sculptures, wall panels, and light strips can all be found in smart, color-controlled, and voice-activated varieties.
Cafe Style Table Lamps
Table lamps have been a warm and inviting addition to ambient lighting since before the days of electricity. Today, you can find table lamp styles in book shops, cafes, and cozy clubhouses where each cluster of comfortable chairs is softly illuminated by it’s own shaded lamp. Choose your time period and your style or go eclectic because there are hundreds of design varieties of table lamp to choose from.
Soft ambient lighting at home is a relaxing and versatile option. With smart RBG control and an elegant choice of fixtures, you can set the mood easily or bring up the lights for clear illumination when it’s time to clean or find the remote. For more elegant and practical home decor ideas, contact us today.