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Ambient lighting: Provides overall illumination and is often on the ceiling. It’s really general lighting for walking around, conversing, and identifying objects.

Task lighting: Provides higher, more concentrated lighting for tasks such as chopping vegetables, shaving, or reading.

Accent lighting: This is similar to task lighting but is used to focus attention, on things like artwork or architecture.

Decorative lighting: This can be any of these three types, but it also brings attention to itself and might even be the focal point of the room, like a chandelier. The important thing to remember is to not select lighting only based on how it looks, performance is important and function should not be compromised for form.

3. Get your lights on dimmers!

If I had my way, every light in my home would be on a dimmer. Dimming helps control your light output to facilitate whatever activity is happening at the time. If you’re entertaining you can dim the light for ambience, if you’re scrapbooking (not that you’ll ever catch me scrapbooking) you can crank the light to the max output for maximum visibility. Plus, by controlling the light output you can actually help save energy! I am never mad at the idea of saving energy.

I recommend switching to dimmers in the most important spaces first, for example your living room and dining rooms. Work with a professional to update your switches and be sure to use dimmer light bulbs.