Ambient Lighting Techniques

Bright Ideas: Professional Lighting Solutions for Your Home by Sharon McFarlane stresses the importance of Ambient Lighting.

Commercial lighting designers use ambient lighting to create the right atmosphere. This books shows how these same techniques can be applied to your home.

“Some lighting is capable of meeting both ambient and functional requirements. Uplighters and pendants are a case in point: pendants emit a warm glow, so they can be used as ambient lights, but clear, functional light shines downward from the opening in the bottom of the shades; uplighters… emit an ambient glow through the material of the bodies, yet throw clear functional light upward. “
Bright Ideas: Professional Lighting Solutions for Your Home by Sharon McFarlane

Justice Design Hand-Cast and Hand-Finished Ceramic: Justice Design Group’s ceramic collection features hand-cast, hand-textured and hand-finished ceramic fixtures which can create a mood, complement a theme, or simply add the perfect accent. Some sconces shown on this page are rated for indoor or outdoor damp location use. Others are rated for Wet location with Patented Socket Shelter.

“Uplighters, which, as their name suggests, are designed to direct light upward, are an ideal fitting for adding ambience to a room. When wall-mounted… the area above is washed with light.”
Bright Ideas: Professional Lighting Solutions for Your Home by Sharon McFarlane