How Lighting Influences Bedroom Interior

Home interior is personal, and deciding on it is juggling numerous ideas before arriving at some. Let’s not fret, keep reading!

We often talk about bedroom colors, windows, curtains, rugs, furniture, wallpapers, and many other things but lights. It’s one of the least spoken but essential elements in bedroom interiors.

The number of lighting options can spoil you with too many choices. Even the number of available lighting fixtures, and how you use them in your home makes a real difference.

The right bedroom light compliments the décor influences mood the way you want and creates a perfect ambiance.

Pro tip!: Go for layered lighting in your bedroom for the best result. It’s a balanced concoction of ambient, task, and accent lighting.

We’ll talk about each of these lighting options in just a minute!

First, let’s see how lighting can change the look of your bedroom.

How does lighting have an influence on your bedroom interior?

Think of designing a room as creating a presentation. You can get some fantastic way-outs and ideas for doing the best possible interior design project.

You create the slides and give the content, charts, and fixes. But all will come to naught if it doesn’t look good while presenting it. How it turns out to be, is everything!

The same is valid for designing your home. You can have the most refined luxury furniture, a king-sized bed, rich tapestries, expensive paintings on your wall, and much more. But all that won’t amount to much when the room doesn’t have good lighting.

Before we get to the lighting elements, let’s examine why room lighting is so important.

Lighting can alter the look

Several visible wavelengths produce electromagnetic radiations, which creates colors. In other words, light is color. Light significantly influences the appearance of colors in a room.

Overly bright and dim lights can spoil the appearance. If too much light falls on a surface, it may appear vibrant, but there’s also the risk of oversaturation.

If the room light is very dimly lit, there’s undersaturation which also reduces room visibility. However, remember: sometimes you may want to keep things that way. A dimly lit room is perfect for evening and personal moments.

You need a good balance of neutral artificial light for all colors to look gorgeous.

Talk to an experienced interior lighting designer about the type of lighting you want. A professional designer can best suggest this depending on the room’s dominant color scheme, furniture, and accessories.

Lights can make a room feel either smaller or larger

The type and placement of lighting create an illusion of space. Both natural and artificial lights can multiply your area or make it appear smaller. If your room is brightly lit, it’ll appear larger, and vice versa.

For this, you need full-spectrum lighting. Thus, allow the maximum amount of natural lighting in your room if possible. For rooms that don’t have external walls, you can install skylights to let natural light in.

Sometimes, there’s no way for natural light to enter. For such circumstances, you can use modern LED lighting. These are available in a wide range of color spectrums.

You can also use hanging ceiling lights to create an illusion of space. Try the standard wall lighting to make your rooms look bigger.

Lighting makes your room safe and functional

Interior designs are not fancy ideas but thoughtful necessities. It doesn’t just make the room beautiful but also ensures they are aesthetically pleasing and functional. Lack of light is an essential factor to consider while designing your interior. Primarily because it can cause accidents, stress your eyes and invite other unwanted troubles.

The basic and most crucial lighting purpose is illumination; anything more than this is a bonus. Remember what we said before about oversaturation and dim lighting? Well, that’s appropriate here as well. For instance, extravagant use of mood lighting can make areas like hallways harder to navigate. Such lighting can even be dangerous for kitchens! 

To be safe, be prudent with the bedroom light you choose for your interior design project. It would be best to verify whether it would suit the given interior before finalizing the lights.

Three must-have lighting elements for your bedroom

Let’s now check out the lighting elements you can’t do without.

Ambient lighting

The purpose of ambient light is to illuminate the space without overdoing it. For instance, ambient lights should be soft, warm, and relaxing. So, go for warm lighting. It is predominantly of red and orange hues. These are fantastic for producing visual warmth and good cheer, especially if they match your room’s overall color theme. If you have a home office, go for warm ambient lighting arrangements.

Accent Lighting

Accent lighting is what you need to highlight sculptures, artwork, curios, heirlooms, and attractive textures. These soft, warm lights also create an intimate atmosphere for your moments.

Unlike other lighting types, ensure the accent light sources are hidden behind something. Their primary function is to be a focal point that others use without being seen. For instance, task lighting behind and under the headboard can highlight it pretty well. If there’s an important picture just above your bed, you must try this one. 

Accent light sources can also be placed at room corners for warm and charming illumination.

Task lighting

Task lighting is perfect for watching your favorite late-night show on the TV or reading your favorite book. 

Its purpose is to ease you from a state of alertness into that of relaxation and then gradually to deep, restful, and restorative sleep. For reading something, it’s sufficient to have a bedside-level task-lighting lamp. We recommend lighting which illuminates just the flooring, creating the mood for your before-bedtime habits, such as listening to your favorite tunes or watching a late-night flick. 

Task lighting fixtures are generally placed behind beds, inside wooden panels which create a skirting of the room, within wardrobes, and as soft motion-activated light bulbs for guiding you to the bathroom at night!

There are so many options for bedroom lighting. Isn’t it?  In this article, we have tried to keep things simple and explain the types of lighting and the right areas to place them. It can sufficiently guide you in creating the desired bedroom ambiance with the correct lights.

However, you can still take the advice of the interior designer or lighting designer you like before choosing a lighting scheme for your home.