Archive for the ‘Lighting’ Category

Garden Light- Postmodern Zen Garden Decoration

Garden light is the postmodern version of a Zen Garden interior decoration, the indoor lighting inspired by bamboo trunks that will give the different on your home decoration.  Garden light could be a romantic lamp on your room, besides of that it can be used for room divider.  The design has an aluminum base that holds the trunks, which are formed by a repeated module, made of translucent flexible acrylic, that works as screen. Each trunk is held to the base through a hidden metallic structure that holds to the modules and the electrical system. The trunks are slightly flexible, creating harmonic movements in contact with the wind, allowing the hit of the trunks that generates a soft percussion as background music.

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Lighting in the Garden

In recent years the popularity of lighting in gardens has increased spectacularly.  Installation of lighting sources in our garden to attract more than admire the landscape, spend more time outdoors,  close to home and even watch for a while in the concrete city.

For the gardens there are two kinds of lighting-light running or spots.  Diffuse light is spread over a larger area,  decreasing in intensity towards the edges.  If the illumination spot (focused light) beam is focused on a limited area. This type of light produces a beam which highlights a particular plant or group of plants. Effect is due to light type of bulb or a screen limiting beam into a lampshade. For a light background, light source is placed behind a tree, a vault or an accessory from the garden. Thus, the object is removed in relief, leaving in evidence clearly designed as a contour on a bright background.

Lighting from below is made up by placing the light source at ground level, focusing up to the plant or accessory. Try to hide from the light source (lamp)  as objects to be emphasized. Standard for lighting from below, the distance to the chosen accessory must be equal to his height. For a spectacular effect, the light source placed at the middle distances.

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Lighting Up The Interiors

Furnishing an house doesn’t mean only to choose the furniture with attention. The eye wants for itself a greater part, wants the right light that can enchance objects and atmosphere. The inner light has a fundamental part in creating cosier spaces, quite a sight and in living, with a great visual effect. The light is an endless source of decorative and architectural possibilities. It can be easily styled as much as you like,  following your own imagination.

Even inside an house or a nightspot set up with a minimalist style the light itself can become an interior decoration; or maybe the lighting of an internal lamp allows passing quickly from completely white walls to coloured surfaces, with an iridescent illumination or scenographic effects.

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The Design of Light

It doesn’t exist a light, but the light, in all its ways.
There’re three fundamental function of the light: the light that provides general illumination to an ambient (ambient luminescence), the light of accent, that calls attention, divides and highlights (focal glow) and the light that captures, attracts and distracts (play of brilliants). A lighting project is the combination of these three functions, declined in devices and lamps of design, planned to give impact, effects and quality desired to light. A luminous atmosphere, the organization of light becomes the unifying architectural element.

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Decorate With Light

Projects in interior a major role played by light.  It defines the environment and creates the atmosphere,  emphasizes blurred or volumes,  and if it is conducted in a correct manner produces spectacular effects.

First of all you must know that it is present in three forms:  natural,  artificial and filtered.  Prior to establish a system of lighting is good to see if the room is enough natural light and how it reveals or hides certain areas.  Depending on the case,  natural light can be completed by the artificial.  To obtain a dose of successful results and impressive keep in mind that artificial light may be the turn of three ways:  general or background – is always transverse furniture; conducted – different centers of interest and regulate the general lighting, decorative or environmental – Contact
color furniture and emphasizes the value of each piece.

Destinations with different rooms require different lighting systems.  Thus bedroom needs a warm light, while light in the bathroom must be strong,  and living room,  near an ambient lighting,  be fitted with lights arranged in irregular areas.

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