LIGHT

1- Lighting can make a difference in your home - Help you performance tasks more easily - Makes you feel safer and more comfortable - Stimulate entertainment and allows you to enjoy your home - It is an inexpensive recourse

2- Light should complement your life style: - Develop a home lighting plan adequate to your individual needs and those of your family - To plan you lighting you have to pay attention to the activities of each room, the atmosphere that you want to create and the elements that you want to emphasize - Keep in mind that light can be absorbed for the colors of the walls

3- Fundamentals of lighting: - Three basic types of lighting that works together - General: provides an area with overall illumination, radiates a comfortable level of brightness. Can be accomplished with chandeliers, ceiling or wall mounted fixtures. It’s a basic type of light that replaces sun light and it is fundamental for a lighting plan. - Task: helps you perform specific task as reading, cooking, etc. It can be provided by recessed and track lighting and portable lamps. It should be free of distracting glare, shadows and should be bright enough to prevent eye strain. - Accent: adds drama to a room by creating visual interest. Require at least three times as much light on the focal point as the general lighting around it.