Lighting Ideas For A Room With No Windows

This living room by kenneth brown on homeportfolio shows the power of strategic lighting in a windowless room.

Lighting ideas for a room with no windows.

Make sure any bushes or trees near your windows are trimmed regularly and avoid planting trees on the southern side of your home as scandinavian home staging explains the sun will be too high for the trees to provide shade in the summer and in the winter the foliage will block your windows from solar. Adding windows to a doorway by converting to french doors also gives the eye that sense of peeking out into a space beyond and lets a new ambient light source in even if the adjacent room. In a wine cellar or a games room use angle poise spots that you can use to direct on to the area you are interested in. Add a piece of mirrored furniture for another unexpected way to reflect light in a windowless room.

Since you don t have a window picking out the correct lighting fixtures will make or break your space. A centered ceiling fixture or can lights are great for lighting the whole space while a pair of wall mounted sconces on either side of a vanity mirror are both practical and pretty says maggie griffin the founder and principal designer at maggie griffin design. Recessed fixtures are ideal for a windowless room because they provide subtle lighting that you can scatter across the ceiling to distribute light more effectively. If light can t reach your window it certainly won t be able to brighten your room.

Keep furniture lines clean and streamlined without embellishments to avoid a crowded dark look. Spotlights are a great way of brightening a room without windows.