Children’s Lighting Options

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Lighting is a matter of great importance when it comes to homing kids. Not only does lighting affect your children’s mood but it will also have a bearing on the health and safety of your children. Here are a few tips on making the lighting in your home child-friendly.

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Brightness

The first thing that you should concern yourself with in regards to the lighting of a home with kids living within is brightness - which ties into health and safety. The brighter your home is throughout, the less chances there are of your toddler bumping into anything and injuring his or herself.

Furthermore, a brighter home will allow you to see any potential health hazards lying around quicker and eliminate them before your child stumbles into them.

For these reasons, you will also want as much natural light seeping in throughout your home and your child’s bedroom as possible.

Flexible Lighting

Your home cannot be bright all of the time however, for you will need dimness when resting and trying to put your child to sleep. It is therefore best that you have flexible lighting throughout your home, so that you can make things dim when needs be.

Ensuring that you find the right lighting fixtures is therefore important and you should opt for the renowned brands, since they will be of the highest quality and the most reliable. Many of the LampCommerce designer lamps will suffice if you’re looking for high quality and flexible lighting fixtures.

Space

Children take up space and your home may not be big enough to comfortably cope with the amount of space a child will take up. However, you can use lighting to make rooms seem bigger than they are, thereby maximizing the amount of space you have in your home without making any actual physical change or extension.

If your child’s bedroom has high ceilings, it should be uplighted, which will make the space within it look and feel bigger.

White Or Bright Coloured Walls

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One-way of making your children’s room brighter is through making the walls white or bright coloured. Bright wall colours should in fact be adopted all throughout your home.

No Tabletop Lamps

Tabletop lamps are a health and safety hazard for toddlers and so they should be avoided. Cords are simply inconvenient and they can be too long or even too short. Ensure that all of your lighting is therefore mounted on walls or ceilings.

As your child grows older, they will need lighting in their room suitable for studying and learning. Wall lights mounted above reading areas and desks are a good way of ensuring that they get the appropriate lighting, without any health and safety hazards.

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 Fun

You will of course want your child’s room to be as fun as can be. This can be done through a variety of different ways, methods and techniques. One great way of making your child’s room fun and interesting is through basing it around a theme.

Regardless of what theme you choose, in order to best base your kid’s room around a theme, you should create a focal point in the room which best exemplifies the chosen theme. Lighting can then be used to bring out this focal point and highlight its presence.