Squeezing The Most From The Light Coming Into Your Home
Even the most luxurious and spaces houses, people often find there are areas that just do not get enough light. In fact, people with larger homes frequently have more of a problem due to having longer deeper rooms and also areas in the middle of the house that are some way from windows. People can do something about this of course by adding skylight windows, reducing furniture or using white dining room furniture for example, and even restructuring parts of the house to open them up. However, most of these methods are very costly and time consuming and there are far easier ways to brighten up your life.
Mirrors. One of the most effective and efficient ways of manipulating light is to use mirrors. This is because they are very efficient at reflecting light, hence you can see yourself very well in them. If you pick the right spots on a wall you can easily direct incoming light from a widow, out of the door and around the house. By locating a mirror just outside the door, the light can then be picked up and moved on down the hall or into other rooms or areas of the house.Use this trick wherever you are lacking light to get better distribution and an all over feeling of space. It’s particularly useful when you have lots of bedroom furniture cluttering up a room, and not much light to start with.
Glass. If you want to disperse light around a room rather than have it concentrated in one area then use glass. Using wine glasses on shelves and glass vases on bedside tables which refract light and send it out at all angles giving an all over glow. Make sure you don’t overdo the glassware however because you can sometimes end up ‘trapping the light’ within all the glass.
Combine. For the ultimate light manipulation, try using both the techniques described above in combination. Use mirrors to direct light through glass objects and then smaller mirrors to pick up the refracted light and move it on. You’ll be amazed at just how much extra light you can have without even using electricity.
