Decorative lighting: manufacturing features

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Designers say that decorative lighting is the most important thing in the interior, and no modern interior can do without it. And indeed, this is the only way to multiply the effect of perception of a particular design element. It is about such a miracle of modern design art that we will discuss this article.

It's no secret that decorative lighting in the interior has a special role - you can safely say that it is she( naturally, together with the environment) that creates a mood in the room. Moreover, she as a whimsical young lady is able to change it, adjusting to the owner - of course, not automatically, but managing groups of lighting devices, a person can easily and easily organize the situation in the house to suit his mood. It is not easy to create such a highlight, but we will try to do it - in this publication of the Dream House website we will tell about the intricacies of the decorative lighting device with our own hands.

decorative LED backlight photo

Decorative LED backlight

Decorative illumination: what is usually highlighted by

Literally lit up in the room you can do anything - no exception are both individual small elements and entire surfaces. To make it easier to understand the grandeur of these opportunities, we give a few examples.

  1. Decorative ceiling lighting. This, you can say, is the classic of the genre - the advantage of such decorative lighting is that it highlights not only the ceiling in the room, but also, to some extent, the whole room.
    decorative ceiling lighting photo

    Decorative ceiling lighting photo

  2. Illumination of the central figure of the interior. It's no secret that the interior in the room is built around one central figure - for example, a nicely finished niche, a fireplace or an entire wall, decorated in a special way. If you highlight this element of the room, then the effect of its perception will increase many times.
  3. Backlight curtains. Very interesting option, especially when it comes to the unique creation of human hands. This option can be compared with the previous one - if there are no other noteworthy elements in the room, then the curtains are highlighted.
  4. Backlight pictures. An excellent option for extended walk-through rooms - for example, the illuminated picture gallery looks great in the corridors, on the wall along the ladder march and so on. It is also remarkable that simultaneously with the pictures such illumination illuminates the room itself.
  5. Floor lighting. It's exotic - not every floor can be highlighted in a decorative way. At least in such situations it is a question of glass floors, to afford which not everyone can afford.
    ceiling decorative backlight photo

    Ceiling decorative lighting photos

In principle, this list can be continued for a long time, but at least it is tedious. And it is not necessary. The main thing is to understand that you can highlight everything, including the house as a whole. Decorative lighting of the facades is no longer an innovation, and it is applied almost everywhere. Such illumination is made using various lighting devices, which should be discussed separately.

Fixtures for decorative lighting: varieties and their features

For sure you already understood that not every lighting device is suitable for decorating the interior - for these purposes, special lamps have been developed. As a rule, they are built-in, but among all their variety there are also outdoor lighting fixtures. By and large, this type of lighting can be attributed even a chandelier of a special design. In general, among the most common lighting devices of this type are the following options.

  1. LED strip. It probably can be called the classics of the genre - it goes so far that some people consider it the only option through which you can create decorative lighting. In fact, the area of ​​this lighting device is very limited - it's an excellent option for lighting long stretches of something, but here as a local, so to speak, spotlight, it is not good.
  2. Spots are usually rotary, so you can adjust the lighting of a particular section of the wall or something else. This is the very lighting equipment that perfectly copes with the task of spot lighting. They are called in the people - spot lights, only in contrast to the classical understanding of this phrase, the spots in their majority are not built-in lighting devices. This is a very large group of lighting devices, which can be divided according to purpose - some of them are designed for ceiling mounting, others for lighting pictures, well, and others, which do not interest us at all, are used for global illumination of premises.
    decorative backlight photo

    Decorative illumination of the photo

  3. In a separate category, you can distinguish decorative spotlights - their main difference from standard point lighting devices for a wide range of purposes 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 "plafond" of a small size, made of glass - it is thanks to him that a play of light and shadows on the ceiling is created.
  4. As mentioned above, ceiling decorative lights can have a different appearance - for example, it can be a chandelier. In appearance, the standard, beautiful and unremarkable among other modern products of this type, it can shimmer with all the colors of the rainbow, and the light it emits is directed in any direction. The secret of this chandelier is that it( along with a powerful light source, necessary for global lighting of the room) also uses a lot of small LED lamps hidden from the human eye. They show themselves only when the appropriate command is received from the remote control.
    fixtures for decorative illumination of a photo

    Fixtures for decorative lighting photos

In principle, you can still go back a bit and remember the fixtures that were used for decorative interior lighting some decades ago. These are all sorts of neon tubes, which were called light beams. Large and bulky, they were not very convenient to use and that's why with the advent of the alternative quickly found themselves on the outskirts of a historical landfill.

Decorative lighting by one's own hands: details of the use of the tape

Since we said that the most popular lighting device for decorative lighting is the LED ribbon, it means that we will take a closer look at its use with our own hands. In principle, its installation is not a difficult task, it is much more difficult to find or create a place for it. This is a luminaire of hidden installation, and leaving it in sight means only to spoil the appearance of the room. The decor in it is small, and it is for this reason that special niches are made for the LED tape. If we talk about the ceiling, then they are assembled from gypsum board, if we talk about highlighting the curtains, then the tape in such situations is hidden behind the ceiling skirting glued a short distance from the wall. And if we are talking about non-standard cases, then we have to include our imagination to the fullest. A simple example with the illumination of a decorative niche with glass shelves - this element is very easy to highlight with the help of the glass itself. It will take a special profile, which will be able to place the LED ribbon in itself, and at the same time keep the glass in the right position - today such a profile is not a problem to buy, but it was not possible to find it even relatively recently.

Decorative illumination with own hands photo

Decorative illumination with own hands photo

As for the connection of the tape, even a schoolboy can understand this question. This light fixture operates from a direct current with a voltage of 12v, and you can not do without a network adapter. The most important and important point in the process of connecting the tape is to not mix the polarity - plus the plus, and the minus to the minus. On the tape, everything is usually marked, but if something is not clear, then you need to connect to each other wires of the same color. In principle, if you confuse, then nothing terrible will happen - the tape just will not work. The polarity reversal will correct the situation - it will be necessary to change the wires in places and everything will work. The tape itself has a self-adhesive base, so it is easy to paste it in the right place.

And in conclusion of the theme that is a decorative lighting, I will say a few words about the combination of lamps of various types. There is only one nuance here - no matter how much you highlight the interior elements, you need to do it separately from each other. Every highlight, even if it is intended to enhance the visual perception of the same element, must be turned on by a separate switch key. This will enable you to control the lighting and, as mentioned above, create a mood in the room.

Author of the article Vladimir Belov


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