Decorative lighting : manufacturing features

Designers say that the decorative lighting - the most important thing in the interior, and none of the modern interior is complete without it.And indeed, this is the only way to increase the effect of the perception of a design element.It was about this miracle of modern art design will talk in this article.

It's no secret that the mood lighting in the interior has a special role - safe to say that she (of course, together with the surrounding environment) creates a mood in the room.Moreover, it is like a capricious lady able to change it, adapting to the host - of course, not automatically, but managing groups of lighting fixtures, an individual can quickly and easily organize the situation in the house to match their mood.Create a backlight is not easy, but we will try to do it - in this publication site Dream House, we will tell you about the intricacies of decorative lighting devices with their own hands.

Decorative LED lights photo

Decorative lights: that usually illuminate

are literally light up the room can be anything - no exceptions are as individual small pieces, and the whole surface.To make it easier to understand the enormity of these opportunities, we give some examples.

1. Decorative ceiling lights.It can be said, the genre classic - decorative lighting such advantage lies in the fact that it not only illuminates the ceiling of the room, but also to some extent the whole room.
   

   Decorative illumination of a ceiling photo

2. illumination interior central figure.It is no secret that the interior of the room is built around one central figure - for example, beautifully decorated niches, fireplace or an entire wall, decorated in a special way.If you highlight an element space, the effect of his perception will increase many times over.
3. curtains illumination.Very interesting option, especially if it is a unique creation of human hands.This embodiment can be compared with the previous - if other elements in the room notable not illuminate the curtains.
4. illumination patterns.A great option for extended continuous rooms - for example, lit art gallery looks great in the hallways, on the wall along a flight of stairs and so on.It is also noteworthy that at the same time with the pictures so light and illuminates the room itself.
5. Backlight floor.This exotic - not every floor can be illuminated decorative way.At least in these situations we are talking about glass floors, which can afford not everyone.
   

   Ceiling decorative lighting photo

In principle, the list is long, but at least it's tiring.Yes, and do not need.Home - understand that can illuminate everything including the house in general.Decorative lighting of facades - it is not new, and it is used almost everywhere.Done such lights with different lighting, which is to talk separately.

Lamps for decorative lighting: varieties and their characteristics

You've probably already realized that not every lighting fixture is suitable for interior decorative lighting devices - for this purpose a special lighting designed.As a rule, they are built in, but there are also outdoor lighting among all their diversity.By and large, to this type of lighting can be attributed even a chandelier special design.In general, the following variants can be distinguished among the most common of this type of lighting.

1. LED strip.It is, perhaps, can be called a classic of the genre - comes to the fact that some people consider it to be the only option through which you can create decorative lighting.In fact, the area of ​​the lighting device is quite limited - it's a great option for lighting stretches of anything, but as a local, so to speak, spotlighting, it is not necessary.
2. Spots tend to swing, to be able to adjust the lighting of a portion of a wall or something else.These are the best lighting that perfectly cope with the task spotlight.They are called in the people - spot lights, only in contrast to the classical understanding of this phrase, spots for the most part are not recessed lighting fixtures.This is a very large group of lighting fixtures, which can be divided by purpose - some of them are designed for ceiling installation, others for lighting of paintings, well, and still others that we are not interested in general now, are used for global illumination premises.
   

   Decorative lights photo

3. In a separate category, you can select decorative spotlights - their main difference from the standard point general-purpose lighting is that on the surface of the ceiling, they create a bizarre play of light and shadow.As a rule, they have a protruding decorative "ceiling" of small size, made of glass - thanks to him and creates a play of light and shadows on the ceiling.
4. As mentioned above, the ceiling decorative lighting can have a different appearance - for example, it may be a chandelier.In the standard view, beautiful and unremarkable among the other modern products of this type, it can shine with all colors of the rainbow, and it exuded light directed in any direction.The secret of this chandelier is that it (along with a powerful light source, necessary for global illumination of the room) is used more and the mass of small LED lamps, hidden from human sight.They reveal themselves only when the remote control corresponding to the command is sent.
   

   Lamps for decorative lighting photo

In principle, you can still go back a little into the past and recall lamps, which are used for decorative lighting of the interior of some decades ago.This is all kinds of neon tubes that light beams were called.Big and bulky, they were not very comfortable using and that is why with the advent of alternative quickly found themselves on the margins of the historical dumps.

Decorative lights with his own hands: the subtleties of using tape

Since we have said that the most popular light sources for decorative lighting is LED ribbon, then it is its use with his own hands, and we will consider in more detail.In principle, its installation - it is not difficult, much more difficult to find or create a place for it.This luminaire flush mounting, and leave it to mean - it means only spoil the appearance of the premises.The decor in it a little, and it is for this reason, LED strip makes a special niche.If we talk about the ceiling, they mounted plasterboard if to talk about curtains illuminated, the tape in such situations are hidden behind ceiling moldings, glued at a small distance from the wall.And when it comes to non-standard cases, there has to include your imagination to the fullest.A simple example of illuminated decorative niches with glass shelves - an element is very easy to illuminate with the help of the glass itself.You will need a special profile, which will be able to place a light-emitting diode and a tape at the same time hold the glass in position - today this profile to buy is not a problem, but still relatively recently it was impossible to find.

Decorative lights with his hands photo

As for the connection of the tape, then this issue can even understand the student.It works the lighting fixture from DC voltage 12v, and can not do without the AC adapter.The most important and crucial point in the process of connecting the tape is not to reverse the polarity - positive to positive and negative to negative.On the ribbon, usually all marked, but if something is not clear, then connect with each other need to wire the same color.Basically, if you mess up, nothing bad will happen - the tape just will not work.Correct polarity change of situation - you need to be reversing the connection and it will work.Tape itself has a self-adhesive base, so sticking it in the right place there is no trouble.

Finally the theme that is decorative lighting, will say a few words about the combination of different types of fixtures.There is only one caveat - no matter how much you may backlit interior elements, this should be done separately from each other.Each light, even if it is intended to enhance the visual perception of the same element should include a separate button switch.This will enable the control lights and, as mentioned above, to create the mood in a room.

author Vladimir Belov