Eye-catching designs tend to inject an instant drama into any space. But to many, this is considered as a cliché. However, good lighting means everything. Good lights uplift the overall mood and create a classic ambiance in any space. Do it right and improve the whole look of your interiors.

Along those lines, here are top 10 lighting design ideas you should seriously consider when embarking on your next lighting design project.

1. Statement Lighting

Besides playing a significant functional role in any home, a good lighting-based scheme should exude a high level of aesthetics. For instance, you can use lighting to make a sassy statement by delicately hanging a striking pendant above a staircase. These pendants will help breathe life into the dining area, redefine the high ceilings, as well as inject a fashionable touch into your interiors.

2. Bedtime Reading needs a new look

Normally, placing a couple of lamps on the bedside cabinets is the default option as far as bedrooms are concerned. However, you can still frame your bed with some classic LED lighting and hang elegant pendants on both sides of the bed to make your bedroom more romantic and classic.

3. Backlit Splashbacks

These elegant splashback lighting designs are an incredible addition to any home. You should seriously consider adding LED backlights to your in-frame slab or shaker kitchen for a spectacular yet subtle effect.

4. Shed Lights on High Ceilings

It can be extremely difficult lighting spaces that feature high or vaulted ceilings. Pendant lights aren’t usually effective at directing light upwards towards the room’s ceiling. In this case, uplights are the perfect solution. LED strip lights can help light the space above, while also casting a stunning, soft glow.

5. Clever Accent Lighting

A clever accent lighting design offers real warmth to your new home’s interiors and draws your visitors’ attention towards the colorful artwork, irradiated by accent lighting. Besides, this lighting scheme makes your built-in shelving visible and more attractive.

6. Layering Light

A good lighting design will incorporate multiple layers of light: task and accent (utilized for highlighting features), as well as ambient lighting. This is more important in the kitchen and dining room.

You can have Cazalla floor washers lighting the floor, a contour LED strip providing uplight over the kitchen’s ceiling and Minos spotlights brightening up your kitchen island with unique task lighting.

7. Integrated Lighting

For the last few years, integrated lighting has had a huge impact—especially in the kitchen area. However, with the introduction of the latest generation of cabinets, bathrooms are now following suit. For instance, you can illuminate vanity units and mirrors to lend a soft glow and breed an ambient dip.

8. Illuminated Treads

Don’t let your staircase, as well as the surrounding circulation space, let your home down when you can leverage on the power of illuminated treads. When perfectly placed above each tread, spotlights can be super good—especially when it comes to kitchen nocturnal visits. Alternatively, you can make a statement of your staircase by illuminating the treads themselves.

9. The Ultimate Day and Night Solution

Incorporating large roof lanterns and roof lights to the above of your dining tables can naturally bring flooding light (especially to those who work from home). What’s more, this arrangement can also bring a pleasing symmetry.

10. Recessed Light

If you are so much into minimalistic schemes, then wall lights can be a fussy option for you. For instance, you can go for recessed strips for your contemporary home. Also, you can get warm LED lighting featuring recessed insets for your living space. This will give this space swabs of soft light.