Cottage or other private housing is the right choice in favor of privacy, peace, absence of noisy neighbors. If you are a happy owner of your own home, naturally, you want to make it as pleasant as possible. And thoughtful lighting will help you in this, placing emphasis, creating the right impression and filling your life with light and coziness.
Outdoor decorative lighting
The external decorative lighting of the house and the adjacent plot at night turns the architecture and landscape design into a fairy tale. With it, you can emphasize the beauty of the facade, the backyards, the pool and other objects on the site. Various lighting fixtures can be used as lighting fixtures:
- front LED lamps of different brightness and color;
- street facade lights;
- wall lamps for facades;
- floodlights;
- hinged lamps with neon or fluorescent lamps;
- LED strip.
Decorative street lighting, unlike functional lighting, carries the task of not backlighting as such, but rather, it is an additional touch to the design of a country house, designed to make it more attractive, interesting, unusual and cozy. Naturally, in this case only the types of luminaires, which are endowed with anti-vandal protection and resistant to different weather conditions, are used.
Decorative lighting of facades
Speaking specifically about the decorative lighting of the exterior walls of the house, it is necessary to mention several of its most common types, which represent the house in the most favorable light. It:
- flooding decorative lighting of a country house;
- hidden;
- accenting;
- contouring.
Flowering decorative lighting is one of the popular ways. With proper organization, it is able to focus the observer's attention on those or other elements of the structure, it is advantageous to single out the building at night time from the total mass of houses in the cottage or cottage community. Of the latest developments in this direction, one can call the possibility of changing the configuration of light using a remote control.
Hidden illumination is used in cases when you want to unobtrusively emphasize the volumetric and protruding contours of the building, without illuminating the entire surface. For example, with it you can highlight the cornice, the lower part of the balcony and other architectural elements. Often, LED strips and tubes, as well as flexible neon, are used for this purpose. Also, the backlight can be considered hidden, if the source of illumination is not visible, and the building itself at the same time looks mysterious and a bit mystical.
Accentive decorative lighting is used to highlight certain fragments of the facade, creating an accent on the necessary architectural elements - columns, statue, stucco. Often the accentuating type is combined with others, which looks very impressive. With modern equipment it is possible to create light of different shades and brightness, to combine the most exclusive light solutions.
Contour lighting is necessary to isolate the outlines of the house, its outline. For its implementation, use LED strips, laying them along the main lines of the building. They seem to outline the configuration of the building, creating an interesting effect. In the evening and at night, the house illuminated in this way is visible from afar. Sometimes this method is used to distinguish only the hotel elements of the facade - balconies fences, railings on staircases, roofing, etc.
Decorative lighting of the plot
Lighting the infield is not only a decorative function, it also serves safety, and also helps to better orient yourself in the garden in the dark. Decorative lighting for cottages can include lighting of flower beds, steps, paths, trees. With her help, you are free to create an individual charming atmosphere, which will be a pleasure to spend time after sunset.
One of the important rules of decorating a garden is not to use complex, voluminous and multi-colored lamps if your plot is already decorated with multiple decorative garden elements - alpine slides, patios, ponds, flower beds, etc. In this case, it is better to use the hidden landscape illumination and laconic lamps, which will only emphasize your magnificent garden.
Decorative lighting of plants
It is very interesting and beautiful to look decorative decorative trees and shrubs. Often, mini-floodlights are installed in the ground next to the plants. You can also wind the LED strip on the tree trunk. Sometimes illumination is hidden in the crowns of trees or bushes, they are placed in flowerbeds - that is, there are a lot of options for an amazing transformation of your garden at night.
Decorative interior lighting
Interior lighting of a country house serves not only to create a comfortable atmosphere, but also helps to emphasize the style of the room, adding to it the final touch. Correctly selected and embodied light can become a truly magnificent decoration of the house. Decorative lighting of an apartment or house provides for the use of its various types - zonal, local, using spotlights, wall sconces, LED strips, etc.
Decorative Living Room Lighting
In addition to the main lighting in the living room, additional light sources are needed for zoning, highlighting certain areas, focusing on the right subjects, and simply for decorating the interior. To implement decorative lighting at home, use a wide variety of light sources: electric fireplace, LED lights and guns, mini-spotlights, spotlights on the stairs, "starry sky", light panels and much more.
Decorative Kitchen Lighting
Very often in the kitchen, as additional light and interior decorations, use the lighting of kitchen cabinets. It looks especially impressive if the doors are made of transparent glass or plastic. With this backlight, you will not only decorate the kitchen and visually increase it, but also be able to find in the dark the necessary items on the shelves. Fixtures for decorative lighting can be placed not only on the upper cabinets, but also on the lower perimeter of the floor. This will make the room visually higher, not to mention the stunning effect of floating the furniture above the floor.
Decorative bedroom lighting
In this intimate room, additional illumination is designed to give an atmosphere of special coziness and comfort. And for this, any kinds of decorative lighting, for example, highlighting an architectural element - niches, cornices, columns with the use of hidden illumination or zonal illumination - are suitable. Also very impressive is the lighting of the wardrobe, especially if it has translucent doors. And at the height of popularity - a floating bed with lights. For the organization of this effect, both LED strips and small spotlights are used.
Decorative children's lighting
For the child, the decorative lighting of the room is directed, above all, to guarding his sleep, if he is afraid of the dark, and also for the comfort of his parents, if the baby is still very tiny, and often needs to get up at night. And since it is a question of a children's room, lamps with an interesting "cartoonish", fairy-tale design are appropriate here. For older children, butterflies and other figures can already be replaced by more serious and concise luminaires. It is important that they are liked by the occupant of the room and in harmony with the rest of the interior.
Decorative hallway lighting
To the entrance from the dull entrance hall turned into an interesting corner of the house, you just need decorative lighting of walls, ceiling and floor. You can also highlight niches , false windows , a shelf with a collection of figurines, a huge pot of tropical plants. False stained glass windows with lighting, stretch ceilings with LEDs, spots in the floor, too, can be safely attributed to decorative lighting. Such techniques, among other things, help to visually adjust the size and configuration of the room.
Decorative highlighting of the exterior and interior of the house helps to embody the most diverse visual effects - from drama and mysticism to solemnity. Using various techniques, you can unrecognizably change your housing from the outside to the inside, so that you will always be in a unique holiday atmosphere.