Interior Design Lighting Tips! | Lighting Ideas For Your Home!
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In this video, I go over some of my best lighting tips! If you’ve ever wondered how you see all these beautiful homes in the magazines or on Instagram and wondered how they created such beautiful spaces, it might just be because of the beautiful lighting! Lighting is so often overlooked, bot not anymore! Here I summarize my best tips on how your home can incorporate beautiful lighting so everything looks consistent and functional.
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⏱ Timestamps:
00:00 – Interior design lighting tips
01:23 – Layer your lighting
03:19 – Light your outside too
04:47 – Diffuse your lighting
05:53 – Use LED lighting strips
07:25 – Match lighting to other elements
09:03 – Use dimmers
10:09 – Use a consistent lighting temperature
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Thank you for your advice. It’s really a helpful tip for us. (It’s already been 3 years. I can’t believe it. You haven’t changed a bit.)
I was going to install some soffit boxes (for extra light strip lighting) to make the bedrooms more inviting but I’m not sure if I should have them in every room – for a cove lighting effect. What are your thoughts?
This guy seems to have copied your video image for image
https://youtu.be/oA-uLPzMilU?si=TPMZPdkFSpUNp7-h
very helpful thank you.
Diffused or not… LED and fluorescent are terrible. Not to mention, unhealthy, "Dirty Electricity". Halogen is borderline.
Using a dimmer? It is still unhealthy.
*I’m an artist, so forgive my ranting* …
Give back our *Thomas Edison* , incandescent lighting .
You talk too fast. The rest are fine. 😊
You are best!
awesome video
Lighting design is something that should be paid attention to. When dad finally had softer lights installed in the corners of all the bedrooms in our house, it made a HUGE difference. I never used the main light in my room ever again. He also had lights installed underneath the overhead kitchen cabinets to illuminate the countertops and EVERYONE was always in the mood to cook afterwards.
Nick I watch your content all the time. I am currently in decision paralysis about ceiling fans and lighting. I don’t need ceiling fans with lights downstairs…but upstairs in the main bedroom and one of the other rooms I need a ceiling fan with a light. There are vaulted ceilings it gets sooooo hot even in the winter. A video on stylish ceiling fans would be oh so helpful. Thank you!!!
Would it be okay to put slightly cooler lights in the overhead fixture, so like a warm daylight. Then a few shades warmer on the accent and task lighting?
I want a nice lighting configuration like this. I do want a gaming room that’s all fancy colored, but the whole rest of the house needs that warm feeling. Too dark and the house feels dirty, and if it’s too bright and white themed, it just feels like a hospital. A good mix of warm lighting with greenery like plants, some white mixed with wood colored theme, I feel like that makes a place feel like home. And you mentioned the hospital feeling after I wrote this so it’s funny that we feel the same lol
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Very cool. I was searching LED lights and getting fatigued by all the gaudy offerings and decided to look for some more traditional lighting wisdom.
Particularly that tip about lighting outside the window is much appreciated. I’ve got a floor-ceiling window on to a balcony with a lot of plants next to my computer desk, and I hate the black wall effect and usually just close my curtain.
But I experimentally pointed my lamp out of the window, lighting up the plants, and it adds so much. It even makes the patches of light out on the street and the lit windows of farther houses feel like a connected space.
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It took me almost 20 years to get the lighting right in my first home! Now we’re building again and having this info straight away really will help get it right the first time!
Talking way too fast.
Hey could you share where you got your wall clock?
who manufactured the cabinetry? Beautiful
what about led strips that eveyone is saying is the only way to fully light up dining and living. I hate the look. Looks so modern , trendy, and store like. What are our options to fully light up a room (aambient),I feel that is so hard to get right. Could you help me more with that if I don’t like that look but all the lighting stores say that is the only way to go. The task and accent come after. So what do you advice?
Do all wall sconces have to match in a room even they’re more than two?
my mom insists on using white lights for everywhere in the house. after seeing your video i went to the storeroom to check what the K on the bulbs are. 6500K. i guess i’m at the entrance of a hospital 😢
What I find the hardest is light temperature. Even going warm in the living room and cool in the kitchen (open plan), which I would think makes sense, makes it all look out of place. But I don’t like cooking with warm white 🙁
What lighting is that in the corner beneath each shelf at around minute 2:55?
i would like to add to the outdoorlighting: do not put them on solar-all- night- switched on mode.
That is painfull for all the birds, bees ..you name it.. because they get iritated of never having real night, because crazy humans make the night bright.
Sometimes when I want diffused light, I place a small, but powerfully bright LED task lamp somewhere in the room and have the diodes face towards the wall. It’s an easy and inexpensive lighting solution.
I will admit that I love the cool lights that have the blueish tint to them 🤷♀
Have you done a video on the lighting halls? Everyone puts lights down the middle (typically can). Any thoughts on lighting only the walls or off-centering the lights?
Are sconces supposed to match pendants? I can’t find the answer anywhere 😩
Did Reynard Lowell copy your video???
Actually, placing outdoor light is very bad for the animals and for your neighbours. We have already too much light polution. Please don’t do that. Use some curtains to cover the "black window".
And the temperature of your lightning should also match the light outside (with some exceptions). Which means that you should use day/cool light temp during the day. You can do that to balance out dark corners in your room during the day. Especially around your desk or in the kitchen.
And I also disagree with colorful lightning. It can be used to set really interesting and magical accents in your home. Just don’t go crazy with that. It is the same rule as for everything in design ;).
i live in the Netherlands and we have a company cold Philips and they have a light witch works on your regelary switch, no dimmer needed, you just put the switch on, turn it off again, wait for a cupple of secconds and then you can pik out the strenghts of your light, coms in 3 different hights, soft to strong
So how do you diffuse it
Hi Nick ! Our interior designer is insisting us on having both neutral white and warm lights in the living room cum dining space and bedroom. Like LED lighting strip in warm tone and the rest in neutral white. I’m bit concerned about it. Please help. Is this the correct way?
Thank you for your videos!
Can we mix recessed lights and modern magnetic strip lights on the ceiling? Can you please guide if we want to use magnetic strip for accent or focus light along with recessed ambient light.
Shouldn’t the light in my closet be bright cool light (hospital vibes) to bring out all the colors in the clothes so I can make a better decision on what should I wear?
For all the people flooding 4000K lights in their house
I see your point about the outside. When to blend and when to create separation between indoors and out is an artform, and it is also very philosophical. I prefer to focus on physical egress and physical transitions between in and outdoor living areas, but only light paved/furnished/path/task areas. I think it is important to maintain the ‘wild’ on your land, because the perception of having more space "beyond" the zone where you are provides a sense of undiscovered area and the feeling of owning more space. It is also far better for wildlife. To learn more about lighting’s impact on human animals and human circadian rhythms, read up on the, "Dark Sky" movement.
Could you do a video on lighting a space with no windows
Can I have 3000K lights as ambient while having 4000K as more of task light, over kitchen prep area, kitchen cabinet LED lighting and bathroom vanity and cabinet lighting
Beautiful video. Could you support me in designing light for my apartment?
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I have a question about defusing light. Were you thinking mostly of ambient lighting when you talk about diffusing light, or are accent lights also better when they are diffused? If I have a line shaped lamp above a painting or poster rack, should I diffuse it with a custom shade?
Hi. Watching from Boston, USA 2 years after you made this video! After watching your video, I looked up cove lighting options- I saw LED rope lights and LED strips. Can both be concealed with crown molding? I did not LED strips that looked good by themselves but I havent looked much yet- Curious to hear your thoughts 🙂 thanks for making such a good video!
awesome
Can you recommend a LED strip for the living room? Thank you