Lighting-Design Updates

These stylish developments in indoor lighting can help make your kitchen, dining room and living room more comfortable and appealing.

Filed under: Indoor Lighting, Kitchen Lighting, Lighting, Kitchens, Living Rooms, Dining Rooms, Fireplace

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After: Well-Lit Kitchen

To update the lighting in the kitchen, the bulbs in the pendant lights were replaced with frosted bulbs, an inexpensive way to reduce the glare and soften the lighting in the eating area. To brighten the dark cabinets, the wood shelves were replaced with glass ones. Now the light is able to stream all the way through the cabinet and give them a warm glow. For nighttime drama, low-voltage light strips have been on top of the cabinets.