Without a lighting designer, creating an interior design assignment is like to going out to dinner and eating just what is in the bread basket. While the bread is fantastic, you're losing out on a variety of other interesting foods. Lighting strategically placed around a room provides additional depth, bringing an interior design idea to life.

Good lighting adds depth and height to your space, provides comfortable corners, and attracts attention to your most striking features. It's all about finding the right combination of light and shadow and filling an environment with fresh vitality. An interior designer may just include a matrix of downlights in their drawings for your space, which does not do the design credit. By hiring lighting professionals to collaborate with your interior designer, you can enhance the effect of your area.

What role does lighting play in interior design?

Everyone who designs a room needs to think about how the lighting will make it look good. Lighting that is good can change and change a space. When we use light and shade, we can make a room feel nice and cosy but also dramatic. Let's say we want to display a piece of art on a wall. To do this, we need a downlight to shine on the art and a darker area around it. This then draws our eyes to the painting.

As a designer, we know how to mix downlights and uplights with wall and floor lamps as well as pendant lights and lamps to give each room a lot of interest and depth. We use different strategies for different problems. We might use a Polespring downlight with a narrow beam to light up special features like a table with flowers. We might also use more general lighting options. This isn't the same as lighting a beautiful curtain fabric for tasks like cooking, reading, or working at a desk. It will be done differently.

What effect does daylight have on the design of a room?

Daylight is very important to all designers. Interior designers and lighting designers will keep an eye on how much daylight comes into each space they work on. This will affect where everything is put. The same thing that artificial light is important for is important for this as well. In a living space with a lot of glass, light will come in and make it look bright and open. There are many ways to deal with artificial light, so we have to think about how to handle it. It will be very different to light up a grey afternoon in London than a bright sunny morning in Dubai.

Architectural lights still play a role in places where there is enough light. Use it to brighten dark spots on shelves, add sparkle to a task area, or highlight art. You may need to use LED linear strips with natural light in order to add focus or softness to your room's decor. LED strips will add a warm glow to your room's furniture and other important parts. The main thing to do is to use both daylight and artificial light to control the lighting at different times of the day. We can have pre-set options on a switch pad so we can get the best possible results from our work.

Is there anything that artificial light can do for the look of an interior?

We're always drawn to the brightest point in a room, so we use artificial light to highlight certain parts of the space. It's possible to see this in a kitchen with flowers on a kitchen island or on a table for dinner. We will also pay attention to the edges of the room to make it look bigger. We can add a lot of light to vertical surfaces like cupboards by using perimeter lights, which will make the light bounce off of them.

It's also important to get the task lighting in your kitchen, bathroom, or laundry room just right, so you can cook, drink, or see what's in your cabinets. Diffuse light is used to make people feel warm all at once. A well-thought-out artificial lighting scheme will add brightness, drama, layers, and depth.