This is the third in a series of blogs about different lighting styles and ideas. This month we bring you contemporary lighting ideas for your home. Contemporary lighting is a modern focused style that can mean different things to different home owners. For some, it means embracing mid-century retro aesthetics. For others, it suggests design that looks toward the future. The following represents how contemporary lighting translates into 21-st century homes.
This bedroom scene portrays a lighting designer pushing the boundaries of illumination to create fixtures that easily serve as wall or ceiling art. The color pallet selected enhances the room with a cool clean feel that coordinates with the accessories selected. The fixtures combined with the furnishings, creates a striking contemporary style that is uniquely whimsical, super-contemporary and highly sophisticated.
This kitchen is a great example of how you can successfully mix modern influenced lighting fixtures, implementing the same metallic’s, materials and color. Here polished nickel unifies these distinctive lighting pendants with appliances and furnishings. The lighting fixtures add a strong focal point in the room as well as providing efficient task lighting needed in a realistic kitchen environment creating both functionality and style.
This foyer with large expanses of space has been filled with multiple ultra contemporary razor pendants that give a dramatic focal point in the room which can also be viewed from the outside. Traditionally a single large lighting fixture is selected to absorb a large expansive room. However, this selection is a fresh contemporary design that defines the room with it’s brilliance along with providing effective illumination.
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