Our 6 ideas for brightening up your home
Brightness is an essential criterion for living well at home. It affects our moods and our morale. Here are our 6 ideas for making your home brighter.
1. Focus on white
Classic but unfailing, white a has the power to immediately reflect natural light, even if it's just a thin ray of sunlight, or artificial light. It also gives a small room a sense of depth by "pushing" the walls. A living room with white painted walls instantly gains in brightness and a sense of grandeur. Note that there are several shades of white to refine the most demanding choices, some being slightly warmer or cooler.
2. Bringing colour to life
One or two bright colours reinforce the effectiveness of white and give more character to your room, while avoiding an unfinished or too austere effect to your interior. However, don't overdo it, as this will detract from the desired luminosity and the result may not be in the best taste. For example, repainting the walls of your living room in alabaster white and cherry pink, or chick yellow according to your preferences, is enough to obtain the brightness you want, as well as the satisfaction of living in an interior that you have personalised.
3. Install the right lights
Choose lamps that are as beautiful as they are powerful, and where you'll be sure to have optimal lighting, day or night. This includes pendant lights to decorate ceiling bulbs, ceiling lights, lamps to place on furniture such as bedside or desk, and Floor lamps. A lighting design instantly gives your interior design as much light as it does elegance with a single touch. There's bound to be one with the style and lighting ability to suit you perfectly, so treat yourself!
4. Go for a minimalist interior design
Even if you've chosen all your furniture and decorative objects with great care over the years, definitely don't try to put them all in the same room. They won't necessarily match, and such an accumulation would saturate your living space both visually and practically. A sober and uncluttered decoration allows you to obtain a luminous and relaxing interior, in which you are at ease without fearing to get your feet caught in it or to have to constantly think of putting it away. The opportunity to create a unique atmosphere per room, or why not change the decoration with the seasons if you have enough to store the rest.
5. Strategically place mirrors throughout your home
As well as focusing on the colors of the walls, adding mirrors is an excellent method to play on the luminosity of your interior and give it an illusion of depth. Your hallway will be much more welcoming when decorated with one or more large mirrors, the same for any small room like the bathroom. Alternatively, a large mirror placed above a radiator, or at an equivalent height, is a very effective choice to give a sense of grandeur to your room. You can also multiply mirrors of different styles and sizes on all the walls of the same room, such as small circular mirrors in the shape of a sun, square or rectangular mirrors with a more baroque or vintage frame. As with lighting fixtures, feel free to play around with the design of mirrors to enrich your decor, while gaining in brightness according to your tastes. Let your creativity speak for itself!
6. Set the right light temperature for your rooms
A last detail to reinforce the brightness of your interior, and not the least, is the lighting. It is an essential part of the good atmosphere of a room and a healthy living environment. To do this, avoid installing a single lighting in pendant light in each room, however small, and opt for several light sources. Put different lamps on the furniture and on the floor, install a Floor lamp near the sofa, hang string lights above the sofa or the bed. Choose a warm light for the living rooms, i.e. the living room, the office and the bedroom, and a cooler light for the bathroom and the kitchen, thanks to bulbs selected for this purpose. The change in lighting mood from one room to another gives your home some extra volume.
