Sconce Lighting Can Give the Illusion of a Larger Home

Lighting is always something to consider in any home. By using the right type of lighting, you can actually make your home feel bigger. If you use the wrong lighting, you can also make the home feel smaller. For this reason, it's important to consider all the variables before you finalize your lighting design. There are many people who choose to use overhead lighting. Partly this is for convenience, you only have one fixture to worry about, and you can turn it on and off from one point. Others will choose to use lamps for their lighting. Another popular choice is wall sconce lighting.

One complaint with overhead lighting is that it is it is very stark, especially if the walls are white. Any home can be made to feel sterile by this type of lighting. You can choose lamps which cast a more diffused light, but they'll leave you with distinct light and dark areas. Using wall sconce lighting eliminates the areas of light and dark, and gives light to the entire room, while still staying diffuse and not casting a stark light into your room

By hanging the sconces on the wall around the perimeter of the room, you can achieve this effect. You should set the lights to provide overlapping coverage - approximately 6 feet up and 10 feet apart. By aiming the lights at the floor, it will make it easier to see anything which may be in your way on the floor. You can get sconces that come in different styles, everything from sconces that are right up against the wall, to styles that are several inches out from the wall.

You should leave the installation of your new wall sconces to an experienced electrician. Your bast times to install wall sconce lightingis during the new construction phase or during a renovation. But, if you choose to retrofit your home with sconces, you will have to punch holes in your drywall to install them, and run electrical wire to power the sconces. You can then have the wired to a switch or dimmer, making it easy to control the sconces from one place rather than having to turn each one on individually.