{"id":2283,"date":"2015-08-07T10:40:04","date_gmt":"2015-08-07T14:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hickoryfurniture.blogs.eprevue.net\/?p=2283"},"modified":"2015-08-07T10:40:04","modified_gmt":"2015-08-07T14:40:04","slug":"accessorizing-your-home-lighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hickoryfurniture.com\/blog\/accessorizing-your-home-lighting\/","title":{"rendered":"Accessorizing Your Home &#8211; Lighting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-meta\">Last Updated Friday, August 7, 2015<\/div> <p>A good overall lighting plan should take into consideration what you are trying to accomplish in each room; activities, mood, focal points, highlights, etc.\u00a0 Lighting typically serves four main purposes:\u00a0 ambient lighting, task lighting, accent lighting and decorative lighting.<\/p>\n<p>Ambient lighting is a central source of lighting that provides an overall non-specific illumination of a room, such as larger ceiling or wall mounted fixtures, recessed or track lights.<\/p>\n<p>Task lighting is needed for more specific activities.\u00a0 It provides a higher level of directed light in a dedicated area, such as a floor or desk lamp.<\/p>\n<p>Accent lighting is most often used to highlight, add drama or flair to a particular item being displayed.\u00a0 It is recommended that your accent lighting provide three times as much light on your focal point as the general lighting surrounding it.\u00a0 Track, recessed or wall mounted fixtures typically work best.<\/p>\n<p>Decorative lighting is often added to enhance the d\u00e9cor of your current space and to create a more intimate setting.\u00a0 LED flameless candles and decorative chandeliers are two great ways to add decorative lighting.<\/p>\n<p>Whether large or small, chandeliers add character and depth to any room.\u00a0 It is very important to determine the right size of your chandelier so that it will not take away from your overall room design.\u00a0 To determine the proper size, take the length and the width of a room and add those two numbers together to determine the approximate diameter of your chandelier.<\/p>\n<p>Make sure you identify which purpose each room serves and select your lighting accordingly.\u00a0 Lighting is important to add warmth and functionality throughout your home.\u00a0 Contact a lighting professional for all of your lighting needs.<\/p>\n<p>Information contributed by The Light Place. \u00a0Visit their lighting gallery on Level 3 of Hickory Furniture Mart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Updated Friday, August 7, 2015 A good overall lighting plan should take into consideration what you are trying to accomplish in each room; activities, mood, focal points, highlights, etc.\u00a0 Lighting typically serves four main purposes:\u00a0 ambient lighting, task lighting, accent lighting and decorative lighting. Ambient lighting is a central source of lighting that provides [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,10,46],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hickoryfurniture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hickoryfurniture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hickoryfurniture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hickoryfurniture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/303"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hickoryfurniture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hickoryfurniture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hickoryfurniture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hickoryfurniture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hickoryfurniture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2283"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hickoryfurniture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}