Home lighting is an investment in your home. Prices for lighting fixtures continue to rise so selecting the right fixture is important. Lighting also provides a needed function. Combining style, price and function to add the right look for your home can be a challenge.

Lighting is also a main feature in any room. Yet, design and style of lighting, particularly chandeliers, is often ignored. Hours of work and thought go into the interior design of a room and then simple, unadorned lighting fixtures are installed. Lighting is a key area to add charm, sophistication or whimsey to a room’s overall look.

Select chandeliers and shades that coordinate with a rooms key design features. Add texture, prints, embellishments that will enhance the overall look of the room. Hours are spent selecting the right fabric to recover chairs, or the exact wallpaper that will achieve a desired look. Why not add chandeliers and shades that will enhance the room and maximize the time invested in designing the room?

Decorative lighting can give any room decor the “wow factor”. It is unique and will give a room a “custom” look. Review the lighting in your home. Is there a place where you could enhance the design look by replacing ordinary shades with ones with color, pattern or emellishments? Look closely at the rooms main colors–pull one accent color and add it to the shades in the room. Fabric trim, buttons, silk flowers and many other types of embellishments can bring that accent color to your lighting. Take a closer look and add a designer look to your rooms.