Lights

Lighting can sometimes be an afterthought when designing a space.  After wading through endless material selections and making countless design decisions, sometimes homeowners are just out of steam.  Unfortunatey this can create a real missed opportunity to bring your renovation or new construction to life.

Lighting choices are one of those design decisions that need to be made fairly early in the construction process.  Right on the heals of your framing being completed, electricians are on their way to run wires and switches that will be covered with drywall, yet critical for completetion and installation of lighting.  Questions will come up early in this process.  How high off the floor would you like your sconces placed?  Would you like dimmers installed? Would you like a two switches to operate the same light, also know as a “three way switch”? Lighting can also be effected by the placement of ceiling joists. Nothing is worse than starting out to center a light in a room and finding new joists are laid in the spot you would like the fixture.  Any art you’d like to highlight? It is important to pick the type of fixture and place it the correct distance from the wall so the angle of the light hits the center of the artwork.  Sconces can create a warm presence in a room.  Mounted on either side of a mirror or wired onto a built-in bookcase, they can take a room from good to great.

Spend some time early in the design process thinking about lighting. The end results will be worth it.