Sure, pendant lights are a great way to light up your living room or kitchen, but did you ever consider styling your living space around them? Sounds absurd, but hear me out. If your place lacks furniture, the proper amount of lighting will turn your pad into a livable social haven perfect for celebrity style soirees. (However, if you have an overabundance of furniture, no amount of lighting will save you, but that's another story we'll work on later).
Consider the following scenarios: let's say you live in a place that happens to have cathedral ceilings (lucky you!) and you're looking to add some vibrant but not overly dramatic lighting into your home. Stick with contemporary styles that work in a variety of rooms and homes, preferably something with scavo vintage glass or with marblesque glass diffusers and finished in either a chrome or non-patina bronzes. Stay away from narrow, coniferous-shaped, and boxy shades unless you're looking to give your home a mod, Frank Lloyd Wright prairie-inspired ambience.
If you live in a smaller space like a high-rise loft in the city or a studio apartment, and you're looking to jazz up your place with an urban-contemporary/artsy edge, I suggest going for anything with bold color and unusual shapes. Glass, PVC, silk shades in a variety of styles will truly transform your home. A word of advice if you're taking this route - less is more. Granted, there's a lot more versatility when it comes to choosing the perfect pendant light for your place, but don't go too over-the-top, honey; there's a fine line between edgy and kitsch, and trust me, you don't want to go kitsch!
What's great about pendant lights is that if you hang them in corner spaces or skewed from the absolute center of any room, your space automatically turns into a living art exhibit. Group about three or four ceiling pendants together, or line them up in a curvilinear fashion and, bam! Glorious light in your life (and home, of course)!
The beauty of a necklace worn by a person is emphasized by its pendant. Perhaps this is because the very first thing that a person sees is that piece of a little shape hanging around ones neck. A pendant is the make or break of a necklace. It will set off or highlight a persons neck or outfit if designed and coordinated well.
In decorating and beautifying your home, its good to use the same mechanic as with the necklace and use Pendant Lights. What is pendant lights? It is what is termed for a single light that typically hangs from a higher place, like a ceiling. It is held by a chain or chord, which is why it is often likened to a necklace. Its beauty lies not when it is singularly decorated, but when it is one of many. Usual designs for pendant lights are shown in groups or formations.
There are many shapes of pendant fixtures, but the most common are the dome shaped and cone shaped ones. Pendant fixtures vary in their functionality. There are those that are made mainly for decorative purposes and wow appeal, but there are also those that have less on the art side and more on the functional side.
The design of pendant lights can be a masterful combination of lighting and shape. If you know how and where to place these fixtures at your home, they would contribute a lot to beautifying ones abode. When you decide what kind of pendant fixture would best fit a room, you should take into account elements like the size of the room, the height o the light from the floor and the pendant lights itself. You will need to consider these things first because they are factors that affect how light is illuminated.
You can always be creative in positioning your pendant fixtures. One way of doing this is by positioning these fixtures to emphasize or complement a particular area or objects in a room, like a table or a sofa.
With creativity and basic know-how on style and right positioning, pendant lights will be a great asset to your home.
Not all pendant lights are created alike, and you will find that they actually come in a large variety of shapes and sizes. You can find rectangles, squares, triangles and rounds. Contemporary designers even experiment with shapes so they can create truly unique and appealing pendant light fixtures. Out on the market you can find pendant lights in abstract shapes and designs. These types of fixtures can dramatically change the atmosphere of your room for a more mesmerizing effect.
If you are the conservative type, the most common pendant lights are either dome-shaped or cone-shaped. The dome-shaped pendant lights either shallowly spread an ample amount of light, or release a narrow and more direct ray. Traditional-shaped pendant lights are usually made with materials that are capable of holding dome shapes. The cone shaped pendant lights give out a more directional lighting, leaving little light to escape to other directions.
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