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How To Use Colored Lighting To Decorate Your Home
by Tara Wischard
http://www.racelighting.com
Remember lava lights? Black lights? Colored light bulbs?
Fibre optic lights? Get ready for the new fad in lighting:
mood lights.
Fad lighting has presented design with some of the most fun
and collectible options of the last fifty years. Lava lamps
and fibre optic lights may be curious oddities from the
past, but they represent the endless fascination that we
have with light and color. It's not difficult to become
engrossed in watching the byplay of color, light and shape
in a lava lamp or fiber optic light - but as far as being
functional? Anyone who ever tried to read by the light of a
lava lamp can attest to their lack of functionality.
As a general rule, incandescent lighting has a warm, yellow
glow that warms sallow colors and brightens cooler colors.
Flourescent lights are in the cool spectrum, with bluish
white tones. They tend to show things in 'true' colors, and
will give your rooms a cooler, more clinical wash of light.
True-color light bulbs or full-spectrum lighting is the
closes to natural sunlight, and is one of the warmest, most
flattering types of light for most rooms - and people.
Soft white bulbs use a powder coated glass to soften and
diffuse the light that they shed. The lighting effect from a
soft white bulb is more soothing to the eye in rooms like
living rooms and bedrooms, and the color is flattering to
most skin tones.
Lighting with a hint of amber replicates the color quality
of a gas flame. It warms a room and makes it feel cozy and
homey.
Light blue bulbs take the filtering a step further than soft
white and give you lighting with the yellow spectrum
filtered out for a cool, crisp light that is easy to read or
work by.
During those 50,000 hours the light can be set to 'Fusion'
for a slow motion display of changing and fading colors, to
Flame for a flickering pattern that melts and reforms colors
rapidly, or to Freeze on a single color for as long as you
like.
Used as accent pieces, they can bring a dramatic flair to
your decorating. A single 18 inch wall mounted square mood
light can highlight and call attention to a sculpture, and
become a part of it with the slow, sensual dance of light to
silhouette the shape before it. Set off a sleek bar design
with a mood light chiller, that features a cooling unit and
light source in one. Filled with ice and set on a bar, it
turns a utilitarian ice bucket and wine chiller into an
object of art.
One of the newest products to take advantage of color and
light are Mood-Lites. Introduced at the New York City Spa
Expo in April (2005), the colored lights with catchy, trendy
names like Tranquility (jade green) and Energy! (bright
orange), have sparked a wave of excitement in the design and
decorating world. Mood-Lites are light bulbs in a range of
eight colors, each geared to a specific mood. The
manufacturer offers suggestions for enhancing the mood in
particular rooms with each color - Happiness (yellow) in the
entryway to promote good feelings throughout the house, for
instance.
Whether you choose overhead lighting, track lighting,
recessed lighting or some other option altogether, a little
attention to the color of the light in your rooms can open
your life - and your moods - to a whole new world.
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