A dining room is where you make some of your happiest memories with family and friends. A little ambience—in particular, good lighting—is key to setting the mood and creating a beautiful, memorable ...

To deter people from wanting to sit and linger, get the lighting right, remove uncomfortable furniture, and create a ...

Dimmers and control panels, task and accent lighting. The intricacies of lighting schemes may not seem as exciting as selecting that beautiful wall color from a peacock’s fan of paint chips, or match ...

Your design client falls in love with a beautiful lighting fixture that they want over the dining room table. But will it still be beautiful if it’s too small or too large for the space? A consumer ...

Mixing vintage and modern lighting can feel intimidating. Lighting is highly visible, often sculptural, and closely tied to a home’s architecture – which means mismatched pieces can quickly feel ...

If you have no interest in hard-wiring a thing . . . Get an Arc Floor Lamp You can have proper overhead lighting for your dining area without hard-wiring a thing overhead. All you need is an arc floor ...

As the days shorten, daylight hours become more and more precious, and interiors that felt complete and colorful in summer may suddenly seem gloomy and subdued. To learn how to offset the effects of ...

A successful lighting design combines a number of light sources at different levels of the room. Add layers of light from a number of types of fixtures that can be used together or separately for a ...

These days, it seems everybody’s got a high-def, flat-screen TV, a PlayStation, an Xbox and a pile of games — and a media room to enjoy them in. Lighting is especially important, and tricky, in media ...