The English Home

Guiding LIGHT

It is hard to over-emphasise how important a well-lit room is to our daily lives, whether for completing everyday tasks or creating an inviting ambience. Achieving this requires careful planning to ensure lights are correctly sited for their purpose and to create a layered effect that can be altered as the mood dictates. Here industry creators and innovators impart their expert advice on realising a practical as well as aesthetically pleasing scheme.

HANG IT ALL

Elegance and symmetry each play their part in drawing the eye to ceiling lighting, whether in classic or traditional form. Used individually or placed as a series, pendants and lanterns create rhythm and flow in pleasing harmony – not least in spaces such as kitchen entertaining areas, where, Harriet

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