| Bedroom Lighting needs to be carefully thought out | | | | the bed to a particular place in the room. Portable |
| and planned because usually the bedroom tends to | | | | lighting is the other option and effective task lighting |
| function as multiple rooms and can require effective | | | | in bedrooms can be easily achieved by using |
| task lighting for its various roles. The bedroom can | | | | adjustable reading lamps near to the bed to facilitate |
| double up as a study, or a television room, or as a | | | | reading or desk lamps for the dressing table areas. It |
| reading room and most usually as a dressing room | | | | is also possible to use special clip-on reading lights (for |
| and sometimes it has to function as all these rooms! | | | | the bedhead) or spotlights clipped to a wall shelf or |
| Also the bedroom is the first room you see in the | | | | even use a floor standing uplighter at each end of |
| morning upon waking and is the last room you see at | | | | the bed. |
| night before going to sleep. Given that its main | | | | If the room does not need to be brightly lit up, then |
| function is to be a room of rest,tranquility and | | | | table lamps dotted around the bedroom are sufficient |
| comfort, this is one room where getting the lighting | | | | and can create a low-lit, cosy and comfortable |
| right is of paramount importance. | | | | bedroom. Usually two light fixtures at either side of |
| The color scheme of a bedroom has a large role to | | | | the bed and a few table lamps placed on a desk or |
| play in the mood and ambience of the bedroom. And | | | | dressing table will suffice. |
| the way in which lighting is used to great effect in a | | | | It is possible to use the more familiar lighting effects, |
| room, will depend on the color of the walls and the | | | | commonly used in other rooms, to great effect in |
| furnishings in that room. For instance, bright colors | | | | the bedroom. For example, effective use of picture |
| such as orange and yellow are very popular for | | | | lights to create specific focus on portraits or paintings |
| young children's rooms, pink tends to be more | | | | hung on walls as well as using uplighters under a bay |
| popular with girls, blue is thought of as a cool and | | | | window to highlight curtains - these methods are just |
| calming color. No matter what color the room, by | | | | as effective in the bedroom as they would be in the |
| using suitable lighting fixtures, it is possible to change | | | | living room or hallway areas. |
| the effect and ambience of the room by day and by | | | | For more dramatic bedroom lighting effects, consider |
| night by simply using different types of lights. An | | | | placing a linear light underneath the bed itself - this |
| example would be having a blue room - during the | | | | results in a beautiful warm glow and gives the |
| day this would come across as being calm and | | | | appearance that the bed is almost floating. The same |
| tranquil however, by using color-tinted lamps and | | | | sort of effect can be achieved by placing light |
| warm-colored lighting and having bedside lamps with | | | | fixtures under the bottom of shelves. |
| colored light bulbs, the room can take on a more | | | | Therefore, using a variety of lighting fixtures such as |
| warm and welcoming appearance by night. | | | | table lamps, uplighters, pendants and so forth, there |
| As mentioned earlier, effective task lighting is key to | | | | are many different effects and moods that can be |
| good bedroom lighting and can be provided through a | | | | achieved within the bedroom, making it a warm, |
| variety of different ways. Fixed fittings are one | | | | comfortable and relaxing room but also one in which |
| option but whilst they remove dangling wires and the | | | | you can read, watch TV and get dressed in. |
| risk of overturning table lamps etc, they may confine | | | | |