Why Lighting is a Vital Factor in Designing a Home

Lighting is often something that gets overlooked by homeowners when they are creating their dream home.

Whether you are focusing on a new kitchen, an extension, or a completely new build, factoring in lighting will have a vital impact on the whole project.

In this blog, we want to highlight how lighting will affect your home renovation project and why we also treat this as an essential part of the design process.

Why is lighting so important?

There are two ways lighting can influence a room: functionality and from a purely aesthetic perspective.

Functionality

One of the first things we explore when taking on a new project is what the space will be used for and how lighting can provide the best functionality for your home.

This is particularly important in certain rooms such as kitchens to ensure that you have adequate light to prepare meals, eat, or even provide a clear view inside your cupboards. While we can usually bring in a lot of natural light combined with artificial lighting to these types of rooms to strike a harmonious balance, other parts of your home can be trickier.

For example, hallways often need creative artificial lighting as they often don't have the same natural light coming in.

So, lighting, whether it is natural light or artificial light, is vital to provide the most functionality throughout your home.

Aesthetics

Aesthetics and how your room looks are other aspects where carefully planned lighting solutions can help.

Creating depth and making spaces look bigger than they are (especially in smaller rooms) can help bring your home to life. We can use artificial lighting to turn attention to focal points throughout your house or to make smaller spaces appear larger with more depth.

This can help create warmth and a homely feel and highlight sections of your room that would otherwise be ignored.

Why we use Relux

So, considering how important lighting is to an interior design and architectural project, how do we achieve the goals of our clients?

Relux is an application that works wonders to simulate artificial light and daylight. It allows us to visualize and plan lighting solutions for your project while it also lets us find the best lighting technology to enable you to get the best out of your plans.

We use this to ensure that your architectural designs are brought to life through a visual representation of how lighting will impact your home. Essentially, you can see our lighting solutions' influence on your room before any practical work is carried out.

How we can help

At JAB designs, we take lighting seriously, whether it is bringing in natural light or using creative artificial lighting.

We know how much it can impact the final look, feel, and functionality of every room.

We can help you create the best lighting solutions to make the most of your space through Relux and 3D visualisations.

Get in touch today to find out how we can bring your ideas to life.