Chandelier Lighting For Any Type And Style of Home

By River Thomas

If you're looking for a sophisticated look to your home, chandelier lighting is your best bet. While more modernistic homes don't always use chandelier light, most other home designs match seamlessly with chandeliers. Chandeliers are used as a design center-point in a room as both a room accessory and light source. There are a few styles of chandeliers available right now (with more coming out) as the market continues to grow and change. Traditionally, however, chandeliers grant less wiggle room for other types of accessories/designs for rooms.

When designing lighting for any room, the lighting style will either complement the existing design of the room, or will be the main feature of the room. Chandeliers can perform either of these functions. In a room with dark furniture and accessories, or dark wood accents, a darker style of fixture, such as black chandelier lighting, or even a black glass chandelier, would contribute to the dark lighting of the room. Another more traditional look can be obtained with a wrought iron chandelier, which could project either a gothic or a classic atmosphere, depending on its surroundings.

Regardless of style and decoration type, the chandelier should match but also serve a purpose. Depending on the size of the light fixture, one chandelier may light an entire living room, which is often one of the largest rooms in most households. In other cases, smaller chandelier lighting may serve as the source that dimly brightens one small table or bar countertop. Some chandeliers include mini light bulb shades to further reduce the light provided by the chandelier. In other cases, pure glass models with no shades allow for maximum brightness and the reflection of the light to increase the covered area.

Chandelier lighting continues to evolve, though several traditional designs are made available in order to match households, restaurants and businesses worldwide. The classic glass and candle holding replica designs remain popular decorating options; while more rigid and simple geometric designs help modern decorators match the lighting source to their living space. Although some chandelier lighting fixtures have much higher price tags than single light sources and accessories, the amount of style and function that the popular design includes keeps the lighting type in the decorating market place.

Pricing of chandeliers varies considerably, due to the huge variety of fixtures currently available. Although the prices associated with some larger chandelier styles may seem prohibitive compared to some other lighting options, their degree of style and timelessness will quickly pay for itself. This fact has been proven time and time again by the fact that chandeliers have remained popular in homes and businesses for centuries. - 29939

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