A dining room is where you make some of your happiest memories with family and friends. A little ambience—in particular, good lighting—is key to setting the mood and creating a beautiful, memorable ...

Lamps in all shapes and sizes can be used to recast the feel of a room, brighten dark corners and illuminate your treasures. By Tim McKeough Lighting can have a dramatic effect on the way a room looks ...

Dimmers and control panels, task and accent lighting. The intricacies of lighting schemes may not seem as exciting as selecting that beautiful wall color from a peacock’s fan of paint chips, or match ...

The simplest things can make or break the design of a room. You might have beautiful furniture, art and flooring, but if the ambience still feels off, lighting is the likely culprit. Light inside our ...

As the days shorten, daylight hours become more and more precious, and interiors that felt complete and colorful in summer may suddenly seem gloomy and subdued. To learn how to offset the effects of ...

If you're noticing there's something just a little off about a room in your home, there's a good chance that it has to do with the lighting. We asked the pros for their honest feedback, and these are ...

Mixing vintage and modern lighting can feel intimidating. Lighting is highly visible, often sculptural, and closely tied to a home’s architecture – which means mismatched pieces can quickly feel ...

If you have no interest in hard-wiring a thing . . . Get an Arc Floor Lamp You can have proper overhead lighting for your dining area without hard-wiring a thing overhead. All you need is an arc floor ...

A successful lighting design combines a number of light sources at different levels of the room. Add layers of light from a number of types of fixtures that can be used together or separately for a ...

These days, it seems everybody’s got a high-def, flat-screen TV, a PlayStation, an Xbox and a pile of games — and a media room to enjoy them in. Lighting is especially important, and tricky, in media ...